Current radio frequency assignments — which are static, inflexible, and inefficient — have a detrimental effect on military communications. A potential solution, the cognitive radio, uses an onboard digital map system to select transmission frequencies and potentially shape the RF beam.

Open standards for sharing geospatial data are bringing the United States and Canada closer together in the task of securing each country's borders.

Preplanning information about terrain is as important as real-time navigation for achieving peak performance in autonomous driving. Both preplanning and navigation — and key technologies to support them — helped the Carnegie Mellon Red Team successfully guide the robot vehicles Sandstorm and H1ghlander through the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge course.

In facing the daunting charters of their organizations, it's safe to say that homeland security authorities, maritime officers, intelligence analysts, and military commanders can never have enough information.

The Florida Highway Patrol (FHP) has signed an agreement with StarChase LLC to become the second-beta test site for StarChase's patented vehicle-tagging and tracking-pursuit management system.

In facing the daunting charters of their organizations, it's safe to say that homeland security authorities, maritime officers, intelligence analysts, and military commanders can never have enough information.

The United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF) today announced two high-ranking intelligence community professionals and two prominent military leaders have committed to speak at the GEOINT 2006 Symposium, to be held at the Gaylord Palms Resort & Convention Center in Orlando, Florida, from November 13-16.

The United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF) has recently released a proposed set of curriculum guidelines and accreditation standards for the development of a nationwide geospatial intelligence tradecraft.

Secure Tracking for Critical Applications Aug 1, 2006 By: Alessandro Pozzobon, Oscar Pozzobon, Chris Wullems

From the safety of workers to the protection of assets and the transportation of hazardous materials, GPS tracking has become an increasingly important safeguard against security threats. But users must be aware of the technology's vulnerabilities and of the tools needed to ensure protection.