BROAD STRATEGIC APPRAISALS: 5/1/10

Friday, May 28, 2010

Quantum photocells might cheat efficiency limits

Plan for 'nuclear clock' unveiled

Applied physicists create building blocks for a new class of optical circuits

Secure system developed for monitoring transport of goods in real time

Space Adventures to Develop Suborbital Vehicles

New "Brains" For LittleDog

Private Rocket Makers Team Up to Build Robot Landers

Air Force Launches Advanced New GPS Satellite

Arizona man is first to go home with a total artificial heart

Fujitsu Supercomputer Achieves World Record in Computational Quantum Chemistry

University to Virginia's Attorney General: Drop your demand for climate docs

Ubiquitous broadband poses problem for cyber security

Army Chief Tells Troops in Afghanistan New Body Armour Coming

Intel Overclocks New Core Processors for Speed Boost

Rapid200Fc hydrogen fuel cell powered aircraft takes its maiden flight

Wind Vibrations Turned into Electricity

Cubic Develops Rapid-Fire Weapon Simulator

Fuji continues to develop fighter-launched UAV, despite test mishap

Navy Needs F-35's Capabilities, Admiral Says

Russia demands explanation for US missiles in Poland

N.Korea threatens to attack S.Korea ships as tempers flare

Thursday, May 27, 2010

Researchers Find Way Increase Life of Fuel Cell Catalyst 10-Fold

New project aims for fusion ignition

Sailing ships could harvest fuel from the oceans

Researchers develop 25TB titanium-oxide disc

Stereoscopic 3D PC market: $0 to $34 billion in 4 years

Human gene catalog shows it's mostly a mystery

Scientists gain new 'core' understanding of nanoparticles

Space trash threatens satellites, Pentagon warns

Japan Plans a Moon Base by 2020, Built by Robots for Robots

Nanoshell structures: Self-assembly method yields materials with unique optical properties

The Power of Batteries

Iran Navy detects US nuke sub in PG

General Atomics proves Lynx radar against 'dismounts'

PICTURES & ANIMATION: X-51A Waverider reaches Mach 5 in 140s scramjet flight

Australia impressed by Super Hornet performance

Jammer Competition Spurs New Technology

Rust and Roll For F-22; HASC Watches JSF

India will have ICBM capability next years

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

New water-splitting catalyst found

'Light from sound' could spot cancers and terrorists

New technology will make election voting more efficient

Vibration harvesting just got easier

DARPA looks for stealthier Internet access

Lockheed Martin eyes automated rifle-scope

Tech to Revolutionize Sniper Combat

Advances made in walking, running robots

Ultra-high Speed Plus Fine-tuned Light Equals a Whole New Look at Materials

Britain reveals nuclear warhead levels

New bomb-sniffing device can identify chemical components of different explosives in open air

Back off, asteroids--We've got nukes

Projects Tame Microbes to Make Crude-Free Fuel

Video: Sony Unveils Paper-Thin OLED Screen That Rolls Up While Still Playing Video

Australian Scientists Build Atom-Sized Transistor

X-51A Waverider reaches Mach 5 in 140 second scramjet flight

N.Korea makes new threats as cross-border tensions rise

DoD: U.S. Space Industry May Lose Edge

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING VEHICLE ENGINE RUNNING STATE AT BUSY INTERSECTIONS FOR INCREASED FUEL CONSUMPTION EFFICIENCY

Is there any way to defend against a ballistic missile?

Graphane yields new potential

Pitt gets $12 million DoD contract for regenerative medicine treatment trials

Next-gen NAND boosts SSD write speeds

US Army test drives automated convoy vehicle

GPS getting an upgrade - for $8 billion

Breakthrough in development of new drugs

Physicists invited to apply their insights to cancer

Intel to lay out supercomputing chip plans

LM Demos New Ambush-Thwarting Push Vehicle Capability

Quantum transistor crafted atom by atom

Integrating Wind: Western U.S. Could Be 30 Percent Wind-Powered

Fuel cell plates produced from layered materials

RPT-New Chinese fighter jet expected by 2018: US intel

Russia to test new model of Kalashnikov assault rifle in 2011

All-in-one keyboard PC

Some sharks can become invisible, study says

Air, sugar power new human fuel cell

Decade after Israeli pullout new war looms

Monday, May 24, 2010

Allvac® 718Plus™ Nickel Superalloy

Afghan MRAP Wars: IEDs Vs. Mobility

Darwinian spacecraft engine to last twice as long

Antibacterial silver nanoparticles are a blast

NASA develops enhanced search and rescue technologies

Refuting Einstein in 4 Easy Steps: Physicists Measure Brownian Motion

Superconductivity breakthrough could lead to more cost effective technologies

How managers stopped worrying and learned to trust the cloud

Brown Chemists Report Promising Advance in Fuel-Cell Technology

U.S. CyberCom launches with first commander

Going hypersonic with the X-51A Waverider

Raytheon's SeaRAM Completes Blast Test Vehicle Launches

Is the U.S. Prepared to Face Midget Subs?

Obama tells military: prepare for North Korea aggression

Quantum Computing Gets a Step Closer With Seven-Atom Transistor

Stealthy Hy-DRA Takes Hybrid-Electric Technology Off-Road

Chinese J-15 Prototype

Patriot missile battery arrives in Poland

Cheap, flexible touchscreens

High-tech home security goes mainstream

Singapore navy testing unmanned mine-hunter: report

U.S. Navy Pledges Support to JSF

Odierno Tapped As New Joint Forces Command Chief

Friday, May 21, 2010

Researchers Develop First Paper Supercapacitor

A powerful duo: Diamond and ceramic

Health check for Hellfire missiles: Auto-doc onboard

UCLA engineer gets $4 million from Department of Energy to convert CO2 to liquid fuel using electricity

Stealthy Predator Promoted To U.S. Navy

Darpa’s Self-Learning Software Knows Who You Are

Quantum crack in cryptographic armour

Mercedes-Benz Puts the Automobile on Autopilot

Researchers Achieve Quantum Teleportation Over 10 Miles of Empty Space

The Army's First Combat Robot - Operational by 2015

Black Fox: Thermal Stealth Suite for Combat Vehicles

FAA Brass Pushes NextGen

DuPont Says It Is Working on an “Affordable” OLED TV

Sanctions, war games among Obama's N.Korea options

Gates: Focus On Overhead, But Weapon Cuts Still Possible

Thursday, May 20, 2010

Boeing, Air Force Research Lab, Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne to Conduct X-51A WaveRider Flight Test on May 25

Kevin Costner Cleaning up the Gulf with His Oil Separating Technology

'Scrubbing' chemical-contaminated buildings clean with lasers

Ultra-secure quantum communications

'Metamaterial' Could Lead to See Through Cameras

Magnesium: Super Material of the Future

Giant Bullet 580 Airship Inflated

Military Robots Keep Soldiers Out of Danger

Darpa Wants Code to Spot ‘Anomalous Behavior’ on the Job

Japanese space agency set to make history with launch of the solar-sailing IKAROS probe

The Rise of the Joystick Army

Quantum Imaging Technique IDs Objects Using a Single Photon

Urgent Action Needed to Secure Undersea Data Transmission, IEEE Report Says

Using Ultracold Atoms Instead of Electrons, Atomtronics Could Revolutionize Computing

U.S. Completes Cyber-Attack Framework

Gates Pushing Pentagon Out Of The Box

The Development of China's Air Force Capabilities

In Tibet, China Aims for Control of ‘Copy’ Button

Synthetic Cells and the Energy Quest

Scientists Create First Cell Controlled by Synthetic Genome

Iran frustrated as US nixes Brazil-Turkey nuclear deal

Japan, Australia Sign 'Historic' Military Deal

Japanese PM: N. Korean Attack 'Unforgivable'

Survivability Ideas Eyed At U.S. Armor Conference

Wednesday, May 19, 2010

A physicist finds God in cosmic harmonies

The ant way to success

New nanoscale electrical phenomenon discovered

Iran Plays for Time

Air Force's New X-37B Space Plane Likely an Orbital Spy

Water not always a guide to finding life

Explained: The Carnot Limit

Sharkskin for airplanes, ships and wind energy plants

Busy Schedule for Rocket Obama Wants Scrapped

Hydrogen fuels company readies prototype engine

A Spin on Efficiency: Generating Tomorrow's Electricity from Better Turbines

BP Plans Kill Shot for Leaking Deepwater Well

Green Lasers Could Usher in a Microprojector Revolution

IBM's Newest Supercomputer Mixes Intel, Nvidia Chips

Optical Transistor Is a Step Toward the Quantum Internet

Downsizing Nuclear: Difficulties With Big Plants Spur Interest in Mini Reactors

Thin-Film Trick Makes Gallium Arsenide Devices Cheap

Lockheed’s Scalpel bomb finds first customer

New transistor bridges human-machine gap

South Korea to blame North for torpedoing warship

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Spotting explosives with a puff of air

Lasers Lose Their Luster

Europeans Bury 'Digital DNA' Inside Mountain Stronghold

NASA Moves 'FAST' For Reduced-Gravity Flight Testing Tech Projects

Curtin component cooling chills computer chips

Japanese researchers develop new hydrogen production system using solar light

Space-science hopes rest on Falcon 9 rocket test

Obama's 'Proven' SM-3 Missile Interceptor May Only Succeed 20 Percent of the Time, Say Physicists

Nanoscale Infrared Detector Breakthrough Could Boost Satellite Imaging Power By 20 Times

Pentagon's IED Chief Comes Out Swinging

NATO won't be spared Defense budget ax, commander says

Quantum dot breakthrough

New electricity grids may be smart, but not so private

Trouble Brewing for Wind?

New Stealth Concept Could Affect JSF Cost

Kaman Demonstrates Cargo Airdrop Flight Tests with Unmanned Helicopter

'Astronauts' Prepare to Leave for 520-Day 'Mars' Simulation

Russian Company Unveils Plans For Fifth-Gen 'Invisible' Helicopters

Monday, May 17, 2010

Rail Gun Pumps Rounds At Swarms

HASC Keeps Airborne Laser Alive

IE6 past its expiration date, says Microsoft

Modern cars vulnerable to malicious hacks

Stripes offer clues to superconductivity

New Inks Could Mean Cheaper OLED Screens

Hypersonic X-51 Scramjet to Launch Test Flight in May

Scientists Question Safety Of New Airport Scanners

Microsoft puts more oomph into technical computing

Electrical properties of glass at the nanoscale lead to a pump the size of a red blood cell

Double-Bubble' Airliners Designed by MIT for NASA Could Trim Fuel Consumption by 70 Percent

Lasers beam crystal-clear for half a century

DNA could power computers, research finds

U.S. space planes 'worry Iran'

Japan, China in spat over nuclear arsenal

$80B Nuclear Sustainment Program Unveiled

Too Much Information: Taming the UAV Data Explosion

Thursday, May 13, 2010

Super-Insulator Aerogel Could Be Used to Soak Up Oil

Plenty of wave energy to be harvested close to shore

Wireless Power Supplies Using Magnetic Resonance

“Like Neurons in the Brain”: A Molecular Computer That Evolves

A Fuel-Saving Car Engine in the Blink of an IRIS

What WiMAX 2 promises

Cartwright: Expect war for 5-10 more years

Nano-Cement Wins Annual MIT Entrepreneurship Grant

Russia’s air defense is not fit for purpose – military experts

Russia talks stealthy, 370mph combat helicopter

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Argonne Labs battery symposium looks to electric cars with a 500-mile range

Brain makes real mental leaps

Nanotube transistor will help us bond with machines

Stratospheric UAVs could be next big thing

NASA's Crew Escape System Tested

Piezoelectrics Come into Fashion

Toward a Hydrogen Economy: Clues from Nature

Redefining electrical current law with the transistor laser

12 attoseconds is the world record for shortest controllable time

NASA, DARPA Seek Satellite Research Proposals For Space Station

Mysterious Step in Spider Silk-Making Revealed

Petraeus Describes Changes in Army Structure, Doctrine

Affordable Fuel Cells May Get Boost From Artificial Diamonds

Electronic Waste Produces Algae for Biofuel

Efficient New Object Recognition Software Uses Smarter Piece-By-Piece Approach

Limitless, Cheap Chips Made Out of DNA Could Replace Silicon

Bioelectric Nanotube Transistor Could Bring Biology and Machines Closer Together

Redirected AF447 search fails to locate A330 wreck

Chastened Boeing keeps NewGen Tanker mostly a secret

A dazzling future for solar power?

Russia Upgrades Air Defenses

Fujitsu's Plasma Tube Array Screen Bends For Innovative Displays

U.S. struggling to ward off evolving cyber threat

Pentagon: Military Response To Cyber Attack Possible

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Flying Car to Help Soldiers in War

Witness brain scan won't reveal whether the face fits

Lining Up "Nanodot" Memory

Nuke that slick

DNA could be backbone of next generation logic chips

JAXA makes advances in development of high-speed commercial aircraft

A safer alternative to laser eye surgery?

Asset tracking for enterprises made simpler

S. Korea confirms RDX found in ship wreckage

Electromagnetic Brain Stimulation May Help Depression

Electromagnetic Brain Stimulation May Help Depression

Life-Like Computers Would Crash Less, Study Shows

DLR Tests Sharp-Edged Spacecraft With New Type of Heat Shield Cooling System

US vows to stand by Afghanistan after combat ends

New Bionic Arms Are Strong, Sensitive, Human-Friendly

New fingerprinting technology created

Stem Cells Behave Very Differently In Space, Study Says

General Alexander Confirmed to Lead Cyber Command

New Camera Captures 3-D Video Through Single Lens, Using Novel Laser Sensor Tech

Verizon Shows LTE Running at 8.5M Bps

IBM Points Predictive Analytics at Social Web

Quantum Move Toward Next-Gen Computing

Organic Light Emitting Transistor Could Usher in New Era for Optoelectronics

X-Ray Vision via ADAS

Taiwan: Report Highlights Fighter Gap with China

Monday, May 10, 2010

Quantum wonders: Superfluids and supersolids

Electricity-Generating Shock Absorbers

WiGig Aims to Widen the Wireless Road

Bill Gates Announces Funding for Seawater-Spraying Cloud Machines

What do we know about nano?

Transforming waste plastic into an alternative fuel

Where is Dark Matter Hiding?

Ancient Shipwreck to Aid Ghostly Neutrino Search

Cooling Down Electronics With Graphene

LM To Integrate Renewable Energy Into Deployable Airfield Power Systems

Iridium launches next-gen transceiver

A Spin on Efficiency: Generating Tomorrow's Electricity from Better Turbines

Carter: No Case for 2nd JSF Engine

Boeing displays concepts for F/A-18E/F replacement

Waste Gasification Goes Commercial

Airbus demonstrates torpedo launch with C-295

Does US need $1bn hypersonic test area after HTV-2 failure?

Laser Power Beaming Aimed At UAVs

Israel says it's better prepared for war with Iran

Long-range Iranian missiles still a decade away

Kaman Demonstrates Cargo Airdrop Flight Tests with Unmanned Helicopter

Boeing Unveils Unmanned Phantom Ray Demonstrator

Faster Wi-Fi Is on the Way

Iran warship tests home-built torpedo: report

Inflection Point: How Much Is That (F-35) Fighter in the Window?

Friday, May 7, 2010

Scramjet with stamina ready for hypersonic test

Army to make enemy networks the next battleground

Brain's master switch verified

The Cyber Peril

Dark matter 'no result' comes under fire

Lithium-Air Batteries Could Rescue Electric Car Drivers From 'Range Anxiety'

U.S. Air Force Awards Raytheon $49 Million for Stand-In Jammer

U.S. Special Forces Set to Carry XM-25 Laser-Guided Smart-Bullet Weapon into Battle

DARPA's Brain Implants Would Help Replace Mental Function in Wounded Warfighters

Navy to Gates: Yes, we need 11 aircraft carriers

A skyscraper designed to make a rotten river run clean

Boeing unveils strike fighter options

Guardrail Common Sensor

Reshaped spaceflight plan gains support

Stephen Hawking's time machine

Futuristic interstellar space probe idea revisited

Boeing plots return to next-generation fighter market

Thursday, May 6, 2010

OLETs enter organic emitter race

Perfectly non-reflecting

Storing green electricity as natural gas

'Underwater kite' aims to turn energy tide

New 'metamaterial' device may lead to see-through cameras and scanners

Is a New Space Weapon Race Heating Up?

Is water the key to cheaper nanoelectronics?

Air Force Treating Wounds With Lasers and Nanotech

GPS Power-Up: Get Ready for New Sense of Place

New bomb-sniffing device can identify chemical components of different explosives in open air

First Test of Orion Escape Vehicle Goes off 'Like Clockwork'

Air France Flight 447 Black Box Location Being Zeroed In On

General Atomics Builds Killer Electromagnetic Rail Cannon

MIT researchers print solar cell on paper