India is Expected to Re-Organize its Coast Guard

Maritime security specialists agree that India has too few Coast Guard cutters and navy officers to patrol efficiently the India’s 7,500 kilometers of coastline and too many squabbling agencies, 23 in all, charged with task to protect coast waters. Indian Coast Guard is expected to undergo a major re-organization and re-equipment in a view of [...]

Pentagon Seeks $500 Million for UAS Programs

Aviation Week reported that “there is more than $500 million for unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) in the fiscal 2008 war supplemental,” according to Dyke Weatherington, the deputy director for Unmanned Warfare in the Office of Acquisition, Technology and Logistics (AT&L). However, that money “is in the yet-to-be-appropriated balance of the Bush administration’s $189.3 billion FY [...]

Development of British Military UAV Continues

The UPI reports on “the British Taranis technology demonstrator program.” The Taranis “is expected to be the largest UAV built in the United Kingdom as part of the strategic unmanned air vehicle experiment program.” As part of the aircraft’s “autonomy mission system,” defense contractor QinetiQ is building a “reasoning layer” which will “run complex decision-making [...]

DARPA Seeks Rapid, Long-Term Deployment UAVs

Flight International reported that “[u]ltra-long endurance and ultra-fast deployment are the targets of new U.S. programs to demonstrate technology for future autonomous aircraft.” Seeking “to push the boundaries of unmanned aviation to extremes,” the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has created projects such as the Vulture program, which calls for the demonstration of [...]

Countries Seek More UAVs for Afghanistan

The Financial Times reports that “countries operating in Afghanistan are…acquiring more” unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), according to experts, who explain that “Afghanistan is…a perfect environment for unmanned aircraft” because “[i]ts airspace is uncluttered and the Taliban does not have weaponry capable of shooting [the UAVs] down.” The move by coalition countries follows a move in [...]

Maritime Security: Hiring PMC to Fight Piracy

Following the dramatic upsurge of piracy shipping companies are increasingly employing Private Military Contractors (PMC) to provide security at high seas. According to analyst forecasts the PMC market segment will capture a significant share of maritime security market.

Somalia turned to modern day Tortuga. There is no ultimate solution to piracy problem until law and [...]