:

Cyber

Military Video Surveillance Software To Launch Commercially, Following Civilian Drone Market

Defense Daily Staff

Thursday, July 17th, 2014

SHARE:

Military Video Surveillance Software To Launch Commercially, Following Civilian Drone Market

Video shot by the Air Force is corrected in real time. Photo: MotionDSP.

Software first used by the Air Force to correct and stabilize wide-area surveillance video will now be released commercially as the civilian use of drones and satellite video expands, MotionDSP, Inc., the firm behind the software, said this week. Ikena WAMI (wide-area motion imagery) uses algorithms to automatically enhance the clarity of blurred video streaming from aircraft, drones or satellites. The automatic process previously took groups of squinting analysts hours to manually review and process, said MotionDSP’s founder and CEO…

Budget

Hegseth Pushes For Reconciliation With At Least $350 Billion For Defense ‘Regardless’ Of Midterms Outcome

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Wednesday the Trump administration plans to continue its push for at least $350 billion in defense funds via the reconciliation process “regardless of what happens […]

Congress

Bipartisan Push in Senate to Hasten Export of 155 mm, GMLRS, HIMARS for Ukraine

A small, bipartisan group of senators is backing the Fast Tracking European Investment in Ukraine’s Defense Act, S. 5175, to hasten the export of allied buys of U.S. munitions for […]

Congress

Rep. Himes Signals Increased Contractor Oversight, if Democrats Win House

Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn.), the ranking member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, plans to increase the committee’s contractor oversight if the Democrats win control of the House […]

Congress

CBO Estimates Loss of One-Half to Two-Thirds of U.S. Missile Interceptors Since June Last Year

A new Congressional Budget Office report estimates the cost of the Iran war through Aug. 1 as $38 billion and says that the U.S. has likely depleted between one-half and […]