BROAD STRATEGIC APPRAISALS: 11/1/10

Monday, November 29, 2010

Can Carbon Put Copper Down for the Count?

Inside the Labs at Microsoft, HP and IBM

The Military's Weapon-Carrying, Terrorist-Spotting Autonomous Jet Ski

LED lighting system kills hospital superbugs

Computer-generated robots

The Great DNS Wall of China

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Experts Question Usefulness of Air Force's Robotic X-37B Space Plane

The Unblinking Eye Can Think

Is That a Computer You're Wearing on Your Head?

11 defense contracts worth watching

Four-way entanglement converted to light

The Rise of Computational Forensics

Report: Iran confirms Stuxnet hit centrifuges

Graphene Supercapacitor Rivals NiMH in Storage Capacity

Nature's desalination: bacteria turn salty water fresh

Color-Changing “Blast Badge” Detects Exposure to Explosive Shock Waves

US considers military options against Iran

McCain Says China Not Behaving Responsibly on Restraining Ally North Korea

Friday, November 26, 2010

Grounded NASA Space Plane Poised for Comeback?

Robots to rescue wounded on battlefield

New Kind of Light Created in Physics Breakthrough

First Chinese Carrier Nearly Complete

Imaging with neutrons: Magnetic domains shown for the first time in 3-D

Microsoft develops shape-shifting touchscreen

Short, On-chip Light Pulses Enable Ultrafast Data Transfer Within Computers

Terahertz Systems

China Help with North Korea? Fuggedaboutit!

North Korea becomes UN's 'problem from hell'

ProteXus Crew Protection Systems To Help Defeat IED Threat

Japan To Send Troops To Remote Isle Over China Fears

Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Secretive X-37B space plane may be near mission's end

Directed Energy Weapons Attack Electronics

Nanomaterials could help keep aircraft wings free of frost

Oxygen rich graphene support could lead to durable fuel cell catalysts

Satellite Internet Is Set For a Big Leap Forward in 2012

Tag Designs and Techniques Used in HF RFID Item Level Tracking

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A Way to Spot Secret Nuclear Reactors From Afar

Army seeks robo-cart for IED hunt in Afghanistan

Brain probe reads and writes individual neurons

Underwater robots on course to the deep sea

Technology uses auto exhaust heat to create electricity, boost mileage

Pentagon funds flying snakes

MoNETA: A Mind Made from Memristors

11 nanometer

Boeing Offers New Surveillance Detection System

Scientists Crack Materials Mystery in Vanadium Dioxide

SpaceX's spaceship cleared for commercial re-entry

Lockheed Martin's JAGM Hits Target From 6 Kilometers

Iran nuclear effort faces technical problems:expert

Husky Metal Detecting and Marking Vehicle

Ride on the Ray: Boeing’s X-45 UCAVs

Monday, November 22, 2010

Liquid battery could harness, store solar energy

Australia could be a martyr, says Brigadier General John Frewen

TSA Scanner Privacy Concerns Could Be Easily Solved With Simple Computer Algorithm, Scientist Says

Temperature breakthrough for hydrogen storage

Intel: 1,000-core processor possible

Ultrathin alternative to silicon for future electronics

Plasmonic sensor detects viruses

Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle-2 (HTV-2)

Computer chip technology advancing

UC Breakthrough May Lead to Disposable e-Readers

One Small Step for Robonaut 2; One Giant Leap for Tin Mankind

Whale-Inspired Ocean Turbine Blades

Face shield for soldiers could shield brain, too

Buy Your Very Own Jetpack

Tanzania's Bomb-Sniffing Rats

S. Korea Considers Redeploying U.S. Nukes

McCain: 'Waste No Time' On Missile Shield

Thursday, November 18, 2010

Anti-cybercrime software mimics DNA matching process

New Wireless Power Technology Cuts the Cord

A Rocket Engine that Prints Its Own Fuel

Rare earth elements in US not so rare

Antimatter Captured For First Time

Turning Information Into Energy

New evidence that weird quantum supersolid exists

HPC experts look past petaflop to the exascale

Optical transistor in silicon is a first

Auto UAVs Could Save Big Bucks

Thermoelectric power generator microelectronics for aerospace and sensor applications introduced by Nextreme

Norway looking to osmotic power generation

Deployment of robotic armed sentries on the rise

Caltech physicists demonstrate a four-fold quantum memory

Report Looks at How China Meddled With the Internet

'Nowhere to Hide': U.S. Army Testing New 'Smart' Weapons in Afghanistan

Stuxnet a threat to critical industries worldwide: experts

US faces 'huge' cyber threat in the future: Gates

Iran Ready For New Round of War Games: Report

Russia May Sell Su-35s to China

DARPA Looks for a Triple Target Terminator

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Internet Traffic from U.S. Government Websites Was Redirected Via Chinese Routers

The network as a force multiplier

Thermoelectric technologies emerge from US

Shortest-pulse X-ray beams could illuminate atomic, molecular interactions

Space–time invisibility cloak could 'edit history'

After silicon: What will power computing for the next 10 years and beyond?

Airborne mine detection system passed flight tests

Day of using nuclear fusion to generate power from sea water nears

URI researchers aim to harvest solar energy from pavement to melt ice, power streetlights, heat buildings

Debunking and closing quantum entanglement "loopholes"

University Analysis Suggests Limiting Exposure to Carbon Nanotubes

Researchers Propose New Way of Detecting Concealed Radioactive Material

Stretchable electronic skin - Nokia Research Centre

Projected Capacitive Touch Screen White Paper

Boeing Submits Proposal For Next Generation Aegis Missile Contract

NATO Eyes 'Fresh Start' With Russia

Iran Launches Air Defense Exercises

Thursday, November 11, 2010

White House Commission: Kill The F-35B

Navy’s Superlaser Is More Than a Weapon

Quantum Computing Reaches for True Power

NASA test fires new rocket engine for commercial space vehicle

Graphene's strength lies in its defects

DARPA wants tech to connect soldiers in barren lands

Copper foam replaces heatsink microchannels

Mega Hurtz gun-wielding robot

All-optical transistor

Taiwan's Tiny RRAM

Printing III-V Transistors Onto Silicon

Advanced jets hitting technological turbulence

Sugar and slice make graphene real nice

New research provides effective battle planning for supercomputer war

Lockheed Martin moves ahead on DARPA quick-turnaround project to develop long-range anti ship cruise missile

Better bomb sniffer built

New forms of highly efficient, flexible nanogenerator technology

Eye In The Sky Has The Sniper On Target

DoD Sees U.S., Allies Ending China's Rare Earths Dominance

Iran To Test S-300 Missiles Despite Russia

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Teeny-Tiny Quantum Computers Take A Step Closer To Reality

No GPS? No Problem

Space Junk Raises Growing Concern

The Navy's Free Electron Laser System Will be More Than Just a Death Ray

Color TFT LCDs solve shifting, accuracy, alignment issues.

How ‘Super AMOLED’ Displays Work

Morpho and Cascade to Test a Next Gen Security Solution

Scientists Question Safety Of New Airport Scanners

Silicon microparticles, gadonanotubes promise big advance for medical imaging

NASA Doles Out $7.5 Million for Heavy-Lift Rocket Studies

Robotic Nurse Washes Human

Graphene can be a semiconductor for LEDs

SRI's electroadhesion tech enables new army of wall-climbing robots

Novel metamaterial vastly improves quality of ultrasound imaging

New ultra-clean nanowires have great potential

Russia Announces Sharp Hike in Defense Spending

Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Data-Broadcasting Chip-on-a-Pill to Start Testing Within 18 Months

Army's portable power looks to charge battlefield

Portable microwave sensors for measuring vital signs

Quantum computers a step closer to reality thanks to new finding

DARPA chooses Carnegie Mellon to develop autonomous capability for 'flying car'

Twin Setbacks for Tidal

Escaping the Data Deluge from Brain-Machine Interfaces

Whose Missile Was Launched 35 Miles West of Los Angeles?

LHC now fully fledged heavy metal collider

Nanoribbons make good memories

Platform Computing Enables GPU Use for High Performance Computing

Harvesting Heat From Roads

Individual Gunshot Detection System soldier-worn sniper-protection contract goes to QinetiQ

EU runs major cyber-war exercise

Nuclear bomb forensics will identify who planted it

NATO to keep nuclear weapons

Monday, November 8, 2010

Oakley Releases World's First Optically Correct 3D Glasses

Quantum memory for communication networks of the future

Iran lashes out at Russia for missile deal

Worldwide SETI Effort Revisits Stellar Neighbors

Japan unveils flying surveillance robot

Top 10 vulnerabilities inside the network

Three Technologies to Watch

Laser sets records for neutron yield, laser energy

Stealth DNA May Control Aging

Nanogenerator Powers Up

Nvidia previews "fastest DX11 GPU on the planet"

Superior imagery creates battlefield advantages

WiGig's 60GHz WiFi prototypes slated for 2011, real products for 2012

Getting to know the sun advances fusion research

Graphene gets a Teflon makeover

Maths skills boosted by electrical impulse

Who's Inside the New U.S. Cyber Command?

Federal Reserve Measures Impact of Nanotechnology on Electronics

Taming Thermonuclear Plasma With A Snowflake

New liquid explosives screening technology deployed

U.S. Army's new surveillance blimp will fly "mid-next summer"

Bell Helicopter and US Army sign agreement to develop drive system technologies

Bulava Missile Program Faces Decision Time

U.S. Military Seeks To Expand Presence In Asia

Pentagon May See Higher F-35 Costs, Delays Up to Three Years

Friday, November 5, 2010

Industry's first WiMAX and LTE TDD SingleRAN solution

London to NY in just 45

Russia, India to begin design of 5G-fighter in December

U.S. Army May Deploy Change-Detection Radar

Ice Lithography on the Nanoscale Moves Up a Notch in Complexity

Glia: The new frontier in brain science

WFS Technologies develops radio for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles

Imec leads development of stretchable electronic fabrics

Military’s Freakiest Medical Projects

Rise of the Resisive Touch Technologies

Scientists create world's first 'super-twisted' light

A safety switch prevents a big bang

Rat Brain Robot Grows Up

Semiconductors + Fullerenes = Power-Generating Windows

Cloaking effect in atoms baffles scientists

Flexible metamaterial springs to life

Deep Strike Key to Air-Sea Battle

Increasing counter-IED role for robots

Northrop Grumman's LEMV Program Completes Three Major Milestones

Thursday, November 4, 2010

Science Fiction Becomes Reality with Kinect

Rumour links iPhone to RFID

A Security Blanket You Can Wear on Your Wrist

In First Test of Interstellar GPS, Team Uses Distant Pulsars to Determine Position in Space

What Is Quantum Mechanics Good for?

Transparent films could enable large-scale solar applications

Army researchers develop futuristic helmet

Scientists Make Advances in 3-D Video

Researchers to build extreme scale supercomputer

Nuclear bunker houses world's toughest server farm

Invisibility closer says St Andrews

Quantum gravity corrects QED

Entanglement loophole closed

NVIDIA Already Has Samples of 28nm Chips

JSF Woes Push AF to F-16s

Cyber attack could paralyze air traffic

Pennycress Could Go from Nuisance Weed to New Source of Biofuel

USAF opens search for F-22 replacement

Japan Achieves Third Ballistic Missile Intercept

ABM Capabilities Of Distributed Aperture System For F-35

NATO Chief Hails Britain-France Defense Pact

Apache Block III Program: The Once and Future Attack Helicopter

Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Lockheed Martin eyes common architecture for F-35, F-22

Jekyll-and-Hyde superconductor points to self-correcting quantum computers

Military ready for war in cyberspace

Gorgon Stare Broadens UAV Surveillance

Air Force Brainstorms Ways to Dumb Down Enemies

NASA Announces New Hypersonic Research Opportunities

Will the next wireless infrastructure be humans wearing radios?

The GPU Revolution

US Air Force wants a microwave weapon ASAP

Holograms closer to becoming a reality

Scientists produce transparent, light-harvesting material

Aircraft bomb finds may spell end for in-flight Wi-Fi

Building a future in space

Laser-Powered Helicopter Breaks World Record

Navy looks to Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, and Raytheon to develop future Air and Missile Defense Radar

Strongest-ever nano-material developed

DARPA's T3: Rise of the triple-role missile

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LockMart Awarded High-Power Microwave Energy Weapon Contract

Tuesday, November 2, 2010

IPS Technology

NASA wants more hypersonic spaceship research

Unique duality: Princeton-led team discovers 'exotic' superconductor with metallic surface

New Breakthroughs In Diode Technology Can Take Electronics Far Beyond Silicon

Raytheon's Space Fence Program Completes Critical Milestone

Bomb-Sniffing Sensors Better Than Dogs

Horizon develops new revolutionary hydrogen fuel generator technology

Army fields flame-resistant uniforms

The New OS Wars: Winners and Losers

Table-top nuclear materials detector shows exact location of radiation sources

Physicists Build Diode for Electromagnetic Waves

Sensor nodes powered from RF field

Radically simple technique developed to grow conducting polymer thin films

Electronic implant allows the blind to see

Excalibur Use Rises In Afghanistan

New long-range undersea robot goes the distance

DARPA Vulture program to use Boeing SolarEagle

U.K.-France Treaties Outline Joint Weapon Development Plans

France Steaming Ahead on PA2/CVF Carrier Project?

Monday, November 1, 2010

Nanowire fuel cell for biological power

XM-25 Goes To War

S-300 Marches Into The Future

Can terrorist attacks be predicted before they happen?

Army moves to equip troops with handheld technologies

The Next Generation CUDA Architecture, Code Named Fermi The Soul of a Supercomputer in the Body of a GPU

Supercomputer-like graphics cards threaten passwords

Kilogram on yo-yo diet

Superfast Robotic Camera Mimics Human Eye

Near IR cameras

US Nuclear Safety Claim Is A 'Dangerous Fantasy'

Pentagon Nuke Revue Launched

Stratsys Develops First 3D Printed Plug-In Hybrid Concept Vehicle

New Zealand Firm Introduces Wireless Electric Car Charging System

Microreactor speeds nanotech particle production by 500 times

Army surveys industry for ground-penetrating radar technology blended with metal detectors to find and mark IEDs

Decreasing the world's rare earths dependence on China

Smog-eating concrete for Missouri highways

Computer to Allow Data Analysis Impossible Today

Moscow Needs Details on NATO Shield: Minister