CONTROP Precision Technologies – a company specializing in EO/IR surveillance, defense and homeland security solutions – is today announcing the sale of several iSky-20HD (formerly SHAPO-HD) and iSky-50HD (formerly DSP-HD) EO/IR payloads to the Israeli Police, to be installed on new helicopters and integrated with Churchill Navigation Mission Systems. CONTROP will display the iSky family of six multi-spectral, low-weight airborne payloads at the upcoming Paris Air Show.

Israel has been secretly providing aid to Syrian rebels groups in the Golan Heights for years, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday. 

According to the report, Israel has offered rebel groups medical supplies and humanitarian assistance, food, funding and even hard cash in order to safeguard the country's northern border with Syria.

A US strike aircraft shot down a Syrian government fighter jet Sunday shortly after the Syrians bombed US-backed fighters in northern Syria, the Pentagon said in a statement.

Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) announced that it has launched several missiles at ISIS positions in Syria's Deir Az Zor province in retaliation for two deadly attacks in Tehran. Deir Az Zor is a province that links ISIS's de-facto capital, the Syrian city of Raqqa, with territory controlled by the group in neighboring Iraq.

The Bedek Division of Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) is pushing to expand its share of the passenger-to-freighter conversion market with a new supplemental type certificate (STC) for Boeing’s 737-700 narrowbody expected to be announced in June. Meanwhile, it is in the middle of the design and development project for the larger -800 model and hopes to secure the STC for that modification in the first quarter of 2018.

Russia and Belarus are preparing for a massive military maneuver this autumn – their quadrennial "fight-the-West" wargame, in which 100,000 troops will reportedly participate. The joint exercise simulates a full-scale conflict with the West.

In the Baltic countries on NATO’s northeastern flank, there are signs of concern. "It’s not comfortable at all when we expect to have 100,000 troops around our borders," Lithuanian Minister of Defense Raimundas Karoblis said during a recent visit to Washington.

The Unidirectional CloudConnect enables Microsoft Azure developers to gather data securely from a variety of SCADA protocols and systems, and translates this data for use in Azure applications

On October 10 next, elections will be held in Liberia to elect the President and the Legislative Assembly, as well as the Senate.

In 2009, the National Electoral Commission of the African country, which is formally independent of both the government and Parliament, already accepted a substantial funding of 17.5 million US dollars directly from USAID to properly manage the previous elections of 2004 and 2014.

Still today, the US Agency supports Liberia with various programs, all effective and necessary.

PEI-Genesis, a company specializing in precision connector and cable assemblies, is opening a sales office in Tel Aviv, Israel.

With Israel ranked fifth among the most innovative countries in the Bloomberg Innovation Index, expanding into this high growth area provides new opportunities for both PEI-Genesis and the Israeli high-tech ecosystem, says the US-based company.

Saudi Arabia and Israel are in talks to establish economic ties, The Times reported on Saturday. 

Arab and American sources told The Times that the links would start small: allowing Israeli businesses to operate in the Gulf, for example, and letting El Al, the national airline, fly over Saudi airspace.