For years the issue of piracy on the high seas has been a chronic, yet almost acceptable disease inflicting the maritime and maritime insurance industries. But the recent hijacking of the Sirius Star, a Saudi super large oil tanker, off the Eastern coast of Africa concentrated the collective minds of both the international maritime and [...]
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), Homeland Security Research Corp. (HSRC) analysts analyzed the national security spending of 20 countries. Based on each country’s economic status, they determined the potential impact, [...]
By Edward Herlik*
Colorado Springs, CO (November,1st, 2008) - An imminent technology and market research report by Homeland Security Research Corp, with lead analyst Edward Herlik, concludes that several significant commercial markets will be transformed by new flight vehicles. Recent developments in extremely long endurance robotic flight will create or impact opportunities in [...]
By: Edward Herlik*
Colorado Springs, CO (November 1st, 2008) - Air Force resistance to change has delayed the deployment of “backtracking” capabilities, or the ability to play a video traffic record in reverse to find bomb factories, weapons caches, safe houses, etc. This is one of the conclusions of an upcoming Persistent High [...]
A new report “Global Homeland Security, Homeland Defense & Intelligence Markets Outlook 2009-2018” concludes that on the backdrop of the global economic crisis, the HLS-HLD (Homeland Security, Homeland Defense and Counter Terror Intelligence) government & private sector budgets will remain recession-proof and grow by 80% from $418 Billion by 2009 to $748 Billion by 2018. [...]
By: Doron Pely*
What do roadside bombs have to do with an economic downturn? If you think the answer is “nothing” think again.
An economic downturn will surely have a negative impact on economically weak populations in developing countries, such as Pakistan, India, China, Philippines, and many African and north African countries. Less economic activity means [...]
The first seven years since 9/11 have been characterized by focusing HLS-HLD (Homeland Security and Homeland Defense) resources on urgent short-term needs, in an attempt to “harden” the free world’s most critical terror targets against future terror attacks. The next decade, we forecast, will see an even faster growth of these same markets, along with [...]
Homeland security missions spread across many technologies, and the companies targeting the fast growing HLS market understand the urgent need to develop and follow Homeland Security standards at the earliest stages of product development. The issues of standards are complex, and the consequences of choices made are significant. Navigating through a maze of standards in [...]
With $115B cumulative 2008-2018 HLS market, this country’s market is 2nd largest only to the U.S. The answer may surprise you (it certainly surprised us). For the past 12 months Homeland Security Research Corporation has been engaged in a massive global homeland security market & technology research with the goal of discovering future [...]
The actual cost to the U.S. federal government of the war against terror is a subject of many heated debates in the halls of Congress. Estimates range from anywhere between the $700 Billion according to the Congressional Research Service, to $4 Trillion according to some private analysts. HSRC’s own analysts estimated a figure [...]