BROAD STRATEGIC APPRAISALS: 7/1/10

Thursday, July 29, 2010

Graphene under strain creates gigantic pseudo-magnetic fields

Successful Space Craft Attitude Control by Liquid Crystal Device

Army tests HULC robotic exoskeleton

Military cyberwar: What's off-limits?

Army technology expands snake-robotics

Stealth Funding for NASA's Constellation

Solar thermal seeks U.S. breakthrough

EV charging station recharges without wires

U.S. Military Learns to Fight Deadliest Weapons

GMS develops underwater ROV

Scientists find chemical 'memory' molecule

Safety Concerns Have Delayed Approval of First U.S. Nuclear Reactor in Decades

By Manipulating Condensation Conditions, Researchers Create Room-Temperature Ice

Carbon Nanotubes Enable Pumpless Liquid Cooling System for Computers

China grooms Latin nations as springboard

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Toshiba SCiB Battery

Listening for Aliens: What Would E.T. Do?

Weapons Buried at Sea: Big, Poorly Understood Problem

Pentagon assesses leaked documents

British entrepreneur holds internet security key

Truck-borne laser weapon to be on way soon

Is NASA Being Set Up To Fail (Again)? Analysis

Why The Flying Car Never Got Off The Ground

IBM Researchers Create the Most Detailed Brain Map Yet

Centrifuges Put a New Spin on Gulf Cleanup

Prepared For Your Digital Afterlife?

Wind Drives Growing Use of Batteries

'Flying car' concept gets a design tweak

Dynetics Completes Test On Multipurpose NanoMissile System Rocket Engine

US sure it can use Japanese bases in any NKorea conflict

Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Researchers find wine, sake turns iron compound superconductive

Data sorting world record: 1 terabyte, 1 minute

Army Technology Expands Snake-Robotics

Build Us a Better Ray Gun, Pentagon Pleads

Wind Power reveals 10MW turbine design

China Eyes Next-Gen Heavy-Lift Rocket Capable of 660 Tons of Thrust

An Order of Seven Global Cyber-Guardians Now Hold Keys to the Internet

Off-the-Grid Gadget Chargers Provide Power in a Pinch

Diamond to develop military jet version of D-Jet

Intel Turns to Light to Transfer Data Inside PCs

Huge satellite poses 150-year threat of space debris

Huge satellite poses 150-year threat of space debris

Raytheon's ASTOR Saving Lives In The Counterinsurgency Battle

U.S. draws line in sea

Raytheon-Boeing Team On Target During First Government-Funded Test Of JAGM

S.Korea, US stage anti-submarine drill in warning to N.Korea

THAAD Radar Performs Successfully In Missile Defense Test

Pakistan Denounces U.S. Intel Leaks As 'Skewed'

DoD Aims To Cut Costs of Future Arms, Not Today's

Friday, July 23, 2010

Cockpit technology aids aviation efficiency drive

Air Refueling Goes Drones

Graphene organic photovoltaics, or, will joggers' t-shirts someday power their cell phones?

DOD invests in tomorrow's UAV and sensor features

Air Force awards space-based infrared systems contract

Obama Unveils $2 Billion In Solar Loan Guarantees

Why Do Rockets Launch from Florida?

Sony and Tohoku University announce next generation laser for disks

Robot Toyota lift truck performs unmanned tasks

Will An Asteroid Hit Earth?

War games send message to N. Korea

Stealth overcoat hides military equipment

Joint Precision Approach and Landing System

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Raytheon Forms Team to Pursue Next Phase of Joint Precision Approach Landing System

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China’s Dangerous Arrogance

A400M Gears Up For Unprepared Runway Trials

Eurofighter boasts Typhoon reign over F-35

Boeing To Demonstrate NATO AWACS Control Of Unmanned Airborne System

Supercomputer predicts cyclones 5 days ahead

Thursday, July 22, 2010

Can You Safely Mix Water and Electric Cars?

3 Questions: Nicholas Roy on deploying drones in U.S. skies

The More You Sit the Sooner You Die

Nanofibres power portable electronics

Serotonin cell discoveries mean rethink of depression

Nanowick at heart of new system to cool 'power electronics'

Sprint clears 35MHz of spectrum for future use, wonders if it's alone in the world

Wi-Fi speeds toward MIMO technology

Army exercises display future of battlefield communications

New Standardized NAND Specification for High-performance Applications

Engineer Seeks Better Control Over Wind Energy

US ready to restore dialogue with China’s military: Gates

NASA's Plan to Use Commercial Rockets Lifts Off

Whitening Cities' Roofs Is Environmental Equivalent of Taking 300 Million Cars Off the Road, DoE Study Says

A failing grade for 'Top Secret America'

Boeing space capsule could be operational by 2015

Japan's Solar Sail Is the Toast of Space Science

Organic LED could improve efficiency of LCD screens

Solar Windows: New Ultra-Thin Cells Generate Power From Artificial Light

I.B.M. Unveils a New Generation of Mainframes

Sun's rumored 'Nemesis' may not exist

New supersonic passenger jet set for takeoff

China may boost missiles aimed at Taiwan to 1,900:

Wednesday, July 21, 2010

A plane that lands like a bird

Brain scans may help guide career choice

Building Super-Fast Electronics Components

UltraViolet: Light at the End of the DRM Tunnel?

Now You See It, Now You Don't -- an Invisibility Cloak Made of Glass

Novel material helps clean up Gulf oil slick

Congress Proposes Commission to Study Asteroid Impact Threat

Eurofighter and Euroradar to Develop Latest Generation AESA Radar

LTE gets a 40,000 base station boost: Nokia Siemens the big winner

LM F-16 Is Ready For The Future As World's Most Advanced 4th Gen Fighter

Private spacecraft nearing first test drop

Raytheon's Phalanx Sensors Used in Laser Shoot Down of Airborne Targets

New Reusable, Straight-Sided German Rocket Can Survive Re-Entry and Guide Itself Home

Extending the life of B-61 nuclear weapons could cost $4 billion

Advance Made Toward Communication, Computing at 'Terahertz' Speeds

Gallium arsenide nanodevice as a signal processor at terahertz speeds

Time travel theory avoids grandfather paradox

Portal for Public Input on Nanotechnology Strategy

The anatomy of an attack on Iran

Troops Must Understand the ‘Why’ of the Fight, Odierno Says

Walking robot breaks distance record

Want to call aliens? Keep it simple, scientists say

T-Rays: The Future of Airport Security, the End of Suicide Bombers?

Tuesday, July 20, 2010

IBM device secures online banking

New Cell Network Doesn't Depend on Towers

Taiwan holds computerised wargame simulating China invasion

Cisco Space Router Passes Satellite Orbit Test

Aluminum remains relevant despite trend toward composites

Graphene battery electrodes enable fast recharging

Brain cells 'trained' to tell time

Raytheon Unveils New Modernized Patriot System Interface

Raytheon's Ship-Mounted Laser Weapon Incinerates a UAV in Flight

Russia Building New $800-Million-Dollar Spaceport for Commercial Space Industry

Vibration-Powered AA Battery Charges Up When You Shake It

Heusler materials: Goldmine for future technologies

Autonomous Underwater Vehicles Teamwork Demonstrated by Atlas Elektronik

Militarized Air-Tractor

NASA Sets Three New Technology Prizes

Boeing Claims Secret Strike Weapon Effort

Dutch May Pull Out Of Next F-35 Phase

F-22 likely to join military drills with S. Korea: source

The Recipe for Clouds Goes Open-Source

8,000-mile 'driver-less' test drive underway

Introducing the 'Gyrojet' -- part autogyro, part jet

Israel To Deploy 'Iron Dome' In November

S. Korea-U.S. Exercise To Send N. Korea a 'Message'

Friday, July 16, 2010

Why Would Anybody in Their Right Mind Build the LHC?

Advanced weapon system helps ONR respond to Navy needs

Japan’s Ikaros Spacecraft Successfully Propelled by Solar Sail

Nearly Hard as Steel: Aluminum with Fullerenes

US army heat-ray gun in Afghanistan

Germany and France Propose Drastic Defense Cutbacks

Market for 30,900 New Commercial Airplanes Valued at $3.6 Trillion Over Next 20 Years

Plants cannot 'think and remember,' but there's nothing stupid about them: They're shockingly sophisticated

Smart Visual Algorithm Lets Unmanned Drones Perform Autonomous Search and Rescue Operations

The Flying Prius

Private spaceship makes first crewed flight

First High-Altitude Coyote Supersonic Target Vehicle Launched

Lockheed To Provide Logistics Support To Special Ops Worldwide

Submarines Could Use New Nanotube Technology For Sonar And Stealth

Russia's Air Defense 'Responds' To All Aircraft Near Its Airspace

Britain unveils new super-drone

Thursday, July 15, 2010

NewGen Tanker Proposal To US Air Force

U.S. charts $3 billion bomb plan

Russia to deploy S-400 near N Korea

International public debut of Gripen NG Demonstrator

USAF picks Lockheed Martin-TRW

New breed of fighters make the impossible possible

In Stores Soon: Graphene-Enhanced Li-ion Batteries That Charge In Minutes

For the First Time, a Full-Sized Helicopter Makes a Completely Autonomous Flight

Debunking the Top 10 Energy Myths

Software to deliver HDR images to non-LED TVs

Human Trials Next for Darpa’s Mind-Controlled Artificial Arm

Trashcan-Like UAS Useful Tool for Stryker Team

Malaria-Proof Mosquito Created

Old Fighter Jets to Be Destroyed in Target Practice

NASA seeks plutonium alternative to power deep-space missions

A Chemical to Grow Brain Cells

WiMax for Smart Grids

NSA To Monitor Critical Computer Networks Looking For Imperfect Citizens

One-step Process for Creating Nanocircuits from Graphene Reported

Beriev Be-2500 almost twice as big as A380!

Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Mitsubishi Heavy to commercialize waterless solar thermal power system

New superconductor research may solve key problem in physics

American SSGNs Prowl The Pacific

Nuclear Power Could See Revival

Can Sprint afford a WiMAX flop?

DNS security reaches 'key' milestone

Korean machine-gun robots start DMZ duty

Navigation Technology Tracks People Indoors

Innovative Battery System Lightens the Load for Troops on Ops

3-D: Coming Soon to a Cellphone Near You

Has The "Gay Gene" Been Found in Female Mice?

ROILA, a New Spoken Language Designed for Robots

iPhone 4 Carrier Unlocked, Public Release Imminent

Northrop Gets That Sinking Feeling, Eyes End of Shipbuilding

European superconducting quantum information processor

Nano-enabled Coating Makes Aircraft Invisible

USAF Eyes Blue Devil For Afghanistan

Russian Air Force to buy over 60 fifth-generation fighters

Helicopter defense system

Which came first, the chicken or the egg?

Government working on wireless spectrum inventory

Recycled Cigarette Butts Can Keep Steel From Rusting

Satellites Track Two-Stage Interceptor In Missile Defense Test

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

ArcLight: Hypersonic Glider

NASA Drones to Fly Into Hurricanes

Making the world's most cutting-edge aircraft carrier

Cisco forecasts fourfold Internet traffic growth

Run on IPv4 addresses could exhaust supply by December

Implantable 'eye telescope' that magnifies vision by three times approved for use in patients

Curiosity Mars Rover Spins Its Wheels (w/ Video)

NASA delays shuttle finale until 2011

China's 'Green Dam' Software Program Near Collapse

Russian Spies' Use of Steganography Is Just the Beginning

WikiLeaks denies closure rumors

DARPA translation work moves into next phase

Satellite will track space junk

Higgs boson: is a result imminent?

Terahertz detects from a distance

Huge telescope will struggle to find extraterrestrial life

Chatter Rises On Iran Strike

NASA offers $5 million for new feats

An Internet 100 times as fast

Explained: Phonons

Boeing Unveils Unmanned Phantom Eye Demonstrator

Army Testing Hydrogen Fuel Cell-Powered Tanks

5th generation fighter Sukhoi PAK FA future big hit?

Israel/US strike on Iran deemed possible according to some reports

GE To Speed Up Electric Car Chargers

Monday, July 12, 2010

The brain of the fly - a high-speed computer

Tokyo scientists develop liquid-crystal memory device

Floating Wind Turbines Promise Clean Power

New Submarine Communications Scheme Will Bring Tweeting to the Ocean Depths

MIT's New Multifunctional Fibers Combine Piezoelectric Sensitivity with Heat and Light Sensing

Military-Designed "Bat Hook" Lets You Charge Your Phone from Overhead Power Lines

Six questions about the Solar Impulse plane

AVX offers high-speed rotor system to DARPA for flying jeep

Electric Aircraft In The Spotlight

Patent Lifts Veil on Boeing's Speed Agile

Iran Mulling over Rival Defense Systems for S-300

From sea to sky: Submarines that fly

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Leader says future bomber won’t go solo

Russia's 5G fighter to be '3 times cheaper than foreign analogs'

UK unveils Taranis stealth combat demonstrator

Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptors Make Permanent Home In Hawaii

Loophole May Have Aided Theft of Classified Data

A Scientist Takes On Gravity

Chinese carrier-based J-15

Super-High Pressures To Create Super Battery

U.S. Army Orders More IED Detection Systems

Team To Boost NATO Ability To Track Missile Intercepts

SEA 1397- Project NULKA

JPADS: Making Precision Air-Drops A Reality

BAE Contracted for a Persistent Battlefield Infrared Stare