Developments and Advances in Defense and Security

This book is a collection of research papers presented at MICRADS 2026. The 2026 Multidisciplinary International Conference of Research Applied to Defense and Security, held at the Escuela de la Marina Mercante Nacional “ESMENA”, Universidad de las Fuerzas Armadas "ESPE", in Guayaquil, Ecuador. MICRADS is a global forum for researchers and practitioners to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, results, experiences, and concerns in the several perspectives of Systems and Technologies applied to Defense and Security. The main topics covered are Area A Systems, Communication and Defense: A1) Information and Communication Technology in Education; A2) Simulation and computer vision in military applications; A3) Analysis and Signal Processing; A4) Cybersecurity and Cyberdefense; A5) Computer Networks, Mobility and Pervasive Systems. Area B Strategy and political-administrative vision in Defense: B1) Air, Space and Maritime Security and Protection; B2) Strategy, Geopolitics and Oceanopolitics; B3) Administration, economics and logistics applied to Defense; B4) Leadership and e-leadership B5) Military marketing; B6) Health informatics in military applications; B7) Ethics in the context of military operations; B8) Operational law (DICA and DD. HH.); B9) Air, space and cyberspace power; B10) Legislation on Cybersecurity and Cyberdefense. And area C Engineering and technologies applied to Defense: C1) Wearable Technology and Assistance Devices; C2) Military Naval Engineering; C3) Weapons and Combat Systems; C4) Chemical, Biological and Nuclear Defense; C5) Defense Engineering (General); C6) Energy efficiency; C7) Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning; C8) Unmanned platforms.