Shoshanna Solomon is The Times of Israel s Startups and Business reporter
The Israeli and the American flags are seen during a visit of Ron DeSantis, governor of Florida, in Gush Etzion, on May 29, 2019. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)
Two joint Israeli-US homeland security research and development projects will get $1.5 million in funding from the Israel-U.S. Binational Industrial Research and Development (BIRD) Foundation.
The selected projects address different needs in the areas of public security and safety, BIRD said on Tuesday. The funding is part of the BIRD HLS program, which aims to develop joint advanced homeland security technologies.
Haifa, Israel-based Levitection and Georgia, USA-based Liberty Defense technologies are developing an electromagnetic imaging and artificial intelligence-based solution to detect threats and hidden items in wide-open areas.