Current IED mitigation technologies and procedures are, at best, only 45% effective, which means for every two IEDs deployed, one completes its mission....
HSRC reveals more than twenty new business opportunities created by, on the one hand, the world's increasing recognition of the threat presented by CBRN terrorism, and, on the other hand, a growing environmental consciousness that is impacting regulatory policy and public attitudes....
Over the next five years, the US Explosive Trace Detection market can be expected to undergo significant growth. HSRC’s latest report, “US Explosives Trace Detection (ETD) Technologies & Markets 2010-2014”, forecasts that US ETD markets will expand at a CAGR of 15%, from $182...
Military and policy planners worldwide are torn between two seemingly contradictory urges: reducing military expenditure to help curb spending, and increasing military spending to help curb growing global instability and shifting balance of power....
How will the global economic recession impact individual countries’ national security spending? In our new market report Global Homeland Security, Homeland Defense & Intelligence Markets Outlook 2009-2018 (launched November 2008), HSRC analysts analyzed the national security spending of 20 countries...
Sky-high oil prices have propelled the global economy into an era of high energy prices. Concurrently, the security of energy infrastructure has become one of the foremost concerns of governments everywhere....
With a forecasted $20 billion 2009-2018 cumulative market, the Saudi Arabia 's border fence market is larger than the U.S./Mexican & U.S./Canadian border fence markets combined. It is, in fact, the largest border fence market in the world!...
Saudi Arabia's Homeland Security market is unlike any other market in the world. It is the only country whose very survival is threatened by terrorism resulting from both internal (homegrown infiltration of Al Qaeda and the Shia minority) and external forces (e.g. the threat of...
Small companies with innovative counter-IED technologies can become prime acquisition targets in a fast growing and technology focused counter-IED market. Promising technologies in standoff threat detection areas, as well as innovations in the broader sectors of "Fighting the Network" are forecast to be of most...
There are currently about 90 known ways to detonate an IED, and growing. As counter IED technologies evolve, so do IED detonation techniques, creating a new kind of arms race. Both sides are fast learners and invest substantial resources in outwitting the opponent....
