BROAD STRATEGIC APPRAISALS: 10/1/10

Friday, October 29, 2010

Scientists closer to a more stable superheavy element

JSF Engine Contenders Pass Test Milestones

IBM Breakthrough Measures Atoms at High Speed

Quantum computing: Cheat Sheet

U.S. and Japan stage successful missile-defense test

Hybrid material enables power-producing fabrics

Thales Minehunting Sonars Put to the Test in Gulf Exercise

Army Plans Large Manned-Unmanned Demo

GPU is future of supercomputing

Chip giants investigate more power efficient chip design

'Skin Printer' Could Help Heal Battlefield Wounds

Advance could change modern electronics

Japan says succeeds in missile shield test with US

Raytheon Advanced Airborne Optical Sensor Studied For Missile Defense

Chandler: Incident Not a Sign of Nuke Arsenal 'Degradation'

Thursday, October 28, 2010

Researchers Seek to Fuse Nerves, Robot Limbs

EU-Backed IBM 'Steeper' Project Aims to Make Electronics 10 Times More Efficient, With Nanotech

Raytheon to design advanced air-to-air missile with multi-mode seeker for manned aircraft and UAVs under DARPA T3 program

Miniature tracking chip features high accuracy

Nvidia chips in new fastest computer

Artificial Intelligence Trumps Human Judge in Test

CMOS beats CCD

Northrop Grumman's CaMEL 'bot features one .50 caliber gun, loads of class

'Wireless' humans could form backbone of new mobile networks

Brain link lets people choose images by thought alone

Raytheon Touts JAGM Successes

Lockheed Martin Tactical Reconnaissance Radar

Green Gold

i2 Advances Technology to Tackle Information Sharing Challenges

U.S. Army tests robot batteries-and-bandwidth war-mules

DHS announces $98 million for advanced X-ray technologies

Sikorsky Commits To Build X2 Rotary Wing Technology Prototypes

Sagem Prime Contractor For RIF-NG New-Gen Soldier Info Network

US drawing up new, tougher nuclear deal for Iran: report

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

3DFusion Aims to Remove Glasses to Watch 3D

Stryker Turns Stealthy with Armorwork's TactiCam 3D camouflage

Japan to Test Hitachi Explosive-sensing Device at Train Station

Unisys to Help Secure US Borders Under Integration Project

DiscRotor Retractable-Blade Heliplane

Acronyms of a Nuclear Missile Launch

Physicists Find Mass Created 'Inside' Graphene

Silicon whiskers detect neural responses

U.S. Army sees video to troop cellphones in 2 years

Brain-Computer Interface Eavesdrops on a Daydream

Mil-spec LEDs introduced by OPTEK for military vehicle lighting and other harsh-environment applications

A Leaner, Meaner British Military

Raytheon Tests Weapons For Unmanned Aircraft Systems

U.S. Nuclear Missiles Went Offline After Computer Glitch

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Turning Retired Military Jets into Next-Gen Nano-Satellite Launchers

Iranian Cyber Army moves into botnets

Self-building chips

Vendors closing in on 1Gbps using DSL

Scientists Contemplate Water Factory on the Moon

Air Force calls for hybrid approach to cyber warfare

NASA's Humanoid Space Robot Butler Ready to Launch.

Graphene single-transistor amplifier is a first

Billionaires wanted for starship plan

Boeing Prepares to Install Beam Control System on High Energy Laser Technology Demonstrator

Water could hold answer to graphene nanoelectronics

India, Japan Boost Defence Ties

Raytheon to design advanced air-to-air missile with multi-mode seeker for manned aircraft and UAVs under DARPA T3 program

Will the U.S. Lose Europe to Russia?

eLEGS Give Wheelchair Users Hope

Magnetic 3D Screen Could Revolutionise Gaming

U.S. Legislators Debate Internet 'Kill Switch' for President

U.K. Move Could See French Aircraft on British Carriers

Monday, October 25, 2010

Army’s WALL-E Robo-Scout Patrols D.C. Confab

Silicon Nanopores Pack More Punch Into Batteries

A one-way system for sound

Improving U.S. missile defense

Hydrogen-generating technology might power boats, store energy from wind, solar sources

Wi-Fi Direct Lets Wireless Devices Talk Face to Face

5 agencies design robots of the future

Researchers find a stable way to store the sun's heat

Blistering Fast Graphene Transistors May Replace Silicon

Liquid crystals go with the flow

Uncooled Thermal Imaging Camera Delivers Breakthrough Performance

Playing Piggyback in Space

US To Try Israeli Tank Protector

Foster + Partners Unveil World’s First Commercial Spaceport

Japan’s Missed Opportunity?

N.Korea justifies nuclear 'treasured sword'

Underwater Test for MBDA's Scalp Booster Missile

Saturday, October 23, 2010

Airborne laser fails 2nd shootdown test in row

DARPA-funded programme to develop transformer vehicles

The Next Great Petroleum Alternative: New Hydrogen Energy Generation Technology Solves Efficiency and Cost Barriers

N.Korea may be preparing for third nuclear test

As UAV use grows, bandwidth limits become a concern

Offshore wind a 'mixed bag': University of Maryland study

Electron billiards in nanoscale circuits

Hitachi develops new LED backlight products for LCD TVs

Unmanned surface vessel able to track quiet enemy submarines is objective of DARPA ACTUV contract to QinetiQ

Ground-penetrating radar gaining acceptance worldwide to detect IEDs and other buried threats

Can NATO Remain Relevant Amid Defense Cuts?

The Technology at the Helm of Global Logistics

New detector for shoe bombs developed

Japan to add six submarines to fleet

Sikorsky Plans To Build Two X2 Helo Prototypes

Thursday, October 21, 2010

Did a New Rocket Help Rout the Taliban?

LM Completes Preliminary Design for 3DELRR

4G: What's in a name?

Study of Tiny Magnets May Advance Their Use in Microelectronics

Clearwire Takes LTE Speeds Towards 100Mbps

NIF Reports Partial Achievement of Nuclear Fusion

A Cell-Phone Network without a License

The Sisyphean Struggle for Biometric Security

Can starships survive the journey?

Cheap Diesel-Powered Fuel Cells

Army logistics gets a new worldview

French scientists make 3D spy camera

New super-strong plastics

$19 Billion Later, Pentagon’s Best Bomb-Detector is a Dog

GE Unveils LED Bulb With Jet Engine Cooling Technology

Light on silicon better than copper?

Aerojet Technology flight tested to replace Dual Purpose Conventional Munition submunitions

Defence cuts: French and US jets to use British Navy aircraft carriers

Lockheed Martin Completes Preliminary Design for Next Generation Long-Range Surveillance Radar

DNA Spray Links Criminals to the Place They Robbed

Iran has 30 kg of high level uranium: atomic chief

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Dyneema® SB51 UD material enables best-in-class body armor solutions

DARPA-funded ‘Hundred Year Starship’ program

Batteries smaller than a grain of salt

Data feeds are all in the wrist with new display technology

Japanese Snake Robot Goes Where Humans Can't

All-electric spintronic semiconductor devices created

Solar Power Could Become “Cheaper than Coal”

Questions Rise On JAGM Missile

New Cyber Strategy Out Soon

‘Express lanes’ for ions

Provision Interactive and MAKO Games Partner on Revolutionary Air Touch Technology

Biology rides to computers’ aid

Can fluid dynamics offer insights into quantum mechanics?

New technology keeps first responders alive

High-Speed Broadband System Certified on Boeing Business Jet

Zinc-Air Batteries Could Revolutionize Electric Cars

ZenithSolar Creates Solar Generator with Incredible 72% Efficiency

New industrial application for revolutionary forensic metal fingerprinting technique

Single-chip navigation and guidance device that combines inertial measurement and timing is goal of DARPA TIMU program

The Power Struggle Among China's Elite

U.S. Announces Massive Arms Sale to Saudi Arabia

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

SpaceShipTwo Flight Test

Chinese firms bypass sanctions on Iran, U.S. says

NBAA: Honeywell reveals first glimpse of SmartView technology for enhanced vision

How Stuxnet Is Rewriting the Cyberterrorism Playbook

Superlaser fires a blank

String theory tackles strange metals

Antenna in Space to Provide 4G Wireless Service

China Halts Shipments to U.S. of Tech-Crucial Minerals

Cheap Electronics on Paper Diagnostic Chips

2 billion to be logged on to web by end of year

WD launches world's first 3TB hard drive

Long distance, top secret messages

Improving surface warship radar, communications, and electronic warfare is goal of InTop contract

Britain takes axe to armed forces in savings push

Monday, October 18, 2010

US reviews plan to notify internet users of hacker take-over

Security vendor: Firewalls defenceless against new attack

Unexpected magnetism discovered

Pentagon eyes "cyber secure" microgrid

Navy takes anti-submarine tracking to next level

Planar construction boosts Na-Ni battery

Robot limbs to plug into the brain with light

Fibre networks heading for 'capacity crunch'

Graphene 'Spin Computers' Could Bring Smaller Gadgets

WikiLeaks Holds Off Posting Secret Military Reports

Internet IPv4 adresses to run out in early 201

The True Cost of Buying the Volt

MIT Introduces Paper-Thin Solar Cells

X-47B – US NAVY Joint UCAS-D to be unveiled late 2010

India to Lift Vietnam Military Ties

China Practices Intercepting U.S. Stealth Fighters

US presses allies on missile shield

Thursday, October 14, 2010

The XM-25 Smart Computerized Grenade Launcher is Headed to Afghanistan

System may herald nuclear fusion power generation

NASA To Crowdsource Software Development

DARPA Kicks Off Transformer (TX) Program

Gravity at Small Scales Remains a Mystery

Botnets Explained

Smart Machines Evolve On The Battlefield

Why CPUs Aren't Getting Any Faster

Triple-mode transistors show potential

Cyberwars: Already underway with no Geneva Conventions to guide them

The Largest Laser on Earth May Soon Create and Ignite a Miniature Sun

Flexible Graphene Memristors

Geothermal project targets radioactive granite

UConn/UTC Team Develops Alternative To Gold In Electrical Applications

New scanner aims to make liquids on planes safer

Silicon strategy shows promise for batteries

Why Drones Are Here to Stay

Fiber lasers are key enabling electro-optical technologies for One-Shot program's sniper targeting system

'Flapless' aircraft steered by air bursts

No C-130s for China

U.S. Urges Allies to Endorse Missile Shield

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Raytheon Introduces Clear View Security Solutions

Metamaterials Could Help Simulate Warp Drive

Computer learns to read the Internet

An Operating System to Run It All

Multicore processors have hit the speed limit

Turning harvested energy into usable power

JFK single-gunman theory shot down by science

JFK single-gunman theory shot down by science

It's Hard To Bring Down The Electric Grid

USAF Spy Spacecraft Changes Orbit Again

Potential Organic Battery Breakthrough

In New Attempt to Build a Practical Military Laser Weapon, Lockheed Inverts a Prism

Transmission Backbone: Offshore Cable to Set Stage for Wind

Russia's High-Tech Military Turns to Inflatable Weapons

U.S. Army Looks to Lighten Troops' Load

Monday, October 11, 2010

Smaller, cheaper, 300 times more intense: Scientists prove theory which could revolutionise lasers

Could light and matter coupling lead to quantum computation?

Google Cars Drive Themselves, in Traffic

Nanowire-Armed Bacteria Become Living Biological Circuits

Fuel Cells: Efficient, Pollution-free Alternative to Convert Fuel into Electricity

ADS-B Gets Green Light, GPS Backup Less Clear

Project would empower UAVs to fly themselves

India, Russia firm up 5th-Gen fighter

The Great Battery Race

A Guide to NASA's Upcoming Grand Challenges

DoD: No F-16s involved in China-Turkey air exercise

New Display Tech Draws Almost No Power

Airplanes in space?

New Kind of Uranium Could Power Your Car

Oil spill opens C-130 export sale to China

Raytheon To Demo S-Band Radar Design For Navy

U.S., China Clash Over Taiwan As Talks Resume

Saab’s Mysterious S-2000 AEW&C Customer? Saudi Arabia

Friday, October 8, 2010

Imaging Phenomena On The Picosecond Timescale Oct 7, 2010

Wrist-mounted OLED display delivered by Universal Display to Army for field testing

Russia successfully test fires Bulava missile

Hydrogen-generating technology might power boats, store energy from wind, solar sources

Raytheon to Design Technology Demonstrator for Air and Missile Defense Radar

Porsche 911's GT3R Hybrid Flywheel

Smart Grid Obstacle

Cyberattack Becomes More Sophisticated

India’s indigenous aircraft carrier taking shape

From sea to sky: Submarines that fly

British Navy to reduce to smallest size ever to save carriers

Cell Processor Development Hasn't Stalled, IBM CTO Says

Iran's "stealth" flying boat

Gripen NG with new fuel tanks

Thursday, October 7, 2010

Breakthrough e-Display means electronics with high speed, high readability and low power usage

A tracking device that fits on the head of a pin

Army tests electronic, updatable manuals for the field

New computer switches handle heat that renders transistors useless

Verizon steals Clearwire's 4G thunder

Microsoft pitches PC isolation ward to defeat botnets

Defense contractor unveils real-life 'Iron Man' suit

New Kind of Uranium Could Power Your Car

Cars That Act as Mobile Traffic Reporters

Nanotech Windows Change Tint With Weather

Finding lost IT with RFID

Exoskeletons, Robo Rats and Synthetic Skin: The Pentagon’s Cyborg Army

Raytheon Awarded $14 Million for Airborne Mine Neutralization System

Microsoft exec proposes new internet "health" model

NATO Seeks To Boost Its Missile Defense

Chinese missile test

NATO chief warns against military budget cuts

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Pentagon: The global cyberwar is just beginning

Solid-state laser technology for military applications to be developed by Northrop Grumman

Andre Geim: Why graphene is the stuff of the future

Key Step Toward a Silicon Quantum Computer

Shaping optical space with metamaterials

Cisco Umi Takes Telepresence To The Home

The Future of ATM Takes Shape in Melbourne

Nuclear command at full capacity

Carribbean Island to Offer Rides to Space

Password Breaker Software accesses BlackBerry information.

'PinDr0p' Tech Uses Unique Noise Fingerprints to Trace Calls

U.S. questions Turkey's military exercise with China

Alternative to X-rays uses visible light

N.Korea's nuclear threat reaches "alarming level": official

USN Turns to Q for TRITON, to Improve Laser Sub Communications

Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Touchscreens: The UI of the Future

UFO Forces Closure of Chinese Airport

Solar Wind Could Replace Solar, Wind as Renewable Energy Source

Disc-Shaped Balloon Could Transport Whole Buildings To Remote Areas

Researchers Using Rat-Robot Hybrid to Design Better Brain Machine Interfaces

Nanotechnology Pushing Solar Power beyond the Shockley-Queisser Limit

'Cyber Storm III' Tests U.S. resilience Under Cyber Attack

DARPA selects AAI to design flying jeep

Russia to create own DARPA for military innovation

Russia to create own DARPA for military innovation

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Japan Recycles Minerals From Used Electronics

Super-strong yarn in works for spacesuits, bulletproof vests

Nobel Physics Prize for Ultrathin Carbon Discovery

World's first 'cyber superweapon' attacks China

Japan to plead its case on islands at ASEM summit

China's Expanding 'Coastal Waters'

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Monday, October 4, 2010

A phone application that threatens security

Cloud computing: Is it ready for disaster recovery?

Researchers engineer adult stem cells that do not age

UEFI close to delivering instant-on PCs

Fisk's crystals, an advance in radiation detection, could elevate terror fight

Is ubiquitous encryption technology on the horizon?

Why did Stuxnet worm spread?

South Korea to be first with nationwide WiMax

Next Gen Digital Sight Could Cure Blindness

Darpa's Self-Aiming "One Shot" Sniper Rifle Scheduled for Next Year

Laser Uranium Enrichment Makes a Comeback

Humanoid Robots Rise. Now, Can They Walk?

Video processing system helps transform airborne sensor imagery into actionable intelligence

Formation-Flying Satellite Experiment Underway

US, Israel ink deal on short-range missile defense

Graphene Nanobubbles Could Mean More Powerful Gadgets

No glasses needed for this 3-D TV

Unmanned Airplanes Coming to a Terminal Near You

Radar vs stealth

Iran arrests 'spies' aiming to derail atomic work

Russia To Import 'Outdated' Arms: Minister