BROAD STRATEGIC APPRAISALS: 2010

Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Waveguides make quantum computers more reliable

'Plasma Antennas' Could Enable Next-Gen Wi-Fi, Beaming Gigs Per Second Wirelessly

Bladon Jets Micro Gas Turbines

Army to Enlist Smartphones for Active Duty

Report Points to U.S. Vulnerability to China's Rare-Earth Supplies

Chip Wars: Mortal combat or stalemate?

UA engineers develop 'invisible,' fiber optic border monitoring system

Seaweed as biofuel? Metabolic engineering makes it a viable option

Athlete Robot Learning to Run Like Human

More Efficient Jet Engine Gets in Gear

Unmanned Fire-X Achieves First Flight

New activity at N.Korea nuclear test site: report

Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Ants Lead Way to Speedier Computer Networks

Ultra-sensitive motion sensors

SLAMRAAM Completes Second Test Firing from New Platform

What Russia’s Stealth Fighter Developments Mean for America

IBM to build 3 petaflop supercomputer for Germany

Enhanced brain-machine interface taps into additional senses

Researchers open the door to biological computers

U.S. Navy Unmanned K-MAX Helicopter

Magnetism relieves electrons of their resistance

Champion Hydrogen-Producing Microbe

Iridium Memories

Scientists beat pain with spinal chip

IBM is working on walking holograms and air powered batteries

Air Force Is Through With Predator Drones

WikiLeaks Reveals Factors Influencing Military Contracts

Decoding the Human Brain, With Help From a Fly

LockMart Successfully Tests First GMLRS+ Rocket

Friday, December 10, 2010

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

Pratt & Whitney Delivers First Production F135 Short Take Off Vertical Landing Engine

Northrop Demos Airborne IED Detection

X-Ray free electron laser

A new kind of blast-resistant glass

Sony Unveils Flexible E-Paper

Nuclear reaction defies expectations

Bacteria-Based Computer Acts Like a Hive Mind

DARPA asks QinetiQ to design unmanned surface vessel able to detect and track quiet enemy submarines

Army approaches industry on technologies to provide national defenses against EMP attack

Bulava missile could be modified for ground launches - designer

SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket Flies Safely

U.S. Not Helping Taiwan Produce Cruise Missiles

Test of Futuristic Railgun A Success: U.S. Navy

Thursday, December 9, 2010

New Budget Darling May Be Directed-Energy

Making Something From Nothing: Researchers Find That Matter Can Be Conjured from a Vacuum

Quantum links used to help computers to read

Holograms offer military better view of battlefield

Army sees future of intelligence in the cloud

Exotic Transistors With Silicon Credentials

World's First Microlaser Emitting In 3-D

New Ultrasensitive Microwave Detector Created

New Piezoelectric Railways Harvest Energy From Passing Trains

Hitachi develops technology to recycle rare earths

Electromagnetic Metamaterials

Platinum-coated nanoparticles could power fuel cell cars

Better batteries from the bottom up

UCSF team develops “logic gates” to program bacteria as computers

ReWalk exoskeleton offers paraplegics chance to walk

World’s Smallest Battery Created at CINT Nanotechnology Center

Army tests 'smart' rifle in Afghanistan

PAK-DA -- Russia's next strategic bomber

Boeing Begins Delivering Brigade Combat Team Modernization Capabilities To US Army

Joint High Power Solid State Laser Keeps Lasing And Lasing

Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Scientists develop laser-beam steering system for quantum computing

US works to secure networks as hackers advance

New Self-Healing Materials Detect When They're Damaged and Fix Themselves

Are Solar Sails the Future of Space Travel?

The Problem with Big Hard Drives

Alternative Internet

Holographic Maps: The Latest Cartographic Innovation

Army awards contract for tactical intelligence aircraft

Engineer's novel liquid provides a solid fix for broken bones

Fix to Internet infrastructure coming in wake of Chinese traffic hijack

A Smart Phone for Every Soldier?

SpaceX gets set for next giant leap

Shape-shifting polymers

Four Technologies for Faster Broadband

Monday, December 6, 2010

Researchers Create New, Higher-Resolution Infrared Cameras

The F-35 Fighter: Keep it or Cut It?

SIPRNet

Hydrogen from Bacteria – New Source of Fuel

Russian tactical nuclear missiles a US concern

Fast-Growing Plants May Carpet World in Green

Invention Traps Mysterious Antimatter

“Lightfoil” could enable spacecraft to use Sun’s rays to fly

MIT: Light speed now a bottleneck in fastest networks

Sniper Pod from Lockheed Martin makes first deployment in combat operations with Air National Guard

Desalinating water, producing hydrogen, treating wastewater -- simultaneously

Neuron-like computer hardware finally gets software

Picatinny Invention Gives Soldiers 80 Degrees Of Firepower

Japan defense plan wary of China's military: report

Friday, December 3, 2010

Time for Unmanned Surface Vehicles to Rule the Waves

How DARPA Is Making a Machine Mind out of Memristors

Soldier Worn Acoustic Targeting Systems

Printed Electronics

Researchers create high performance infrared camera based on type-II InAs/GaSb superlattices

Researchers create new high-performance fiber

What Could X-37B Do?

Sony unleashes new 3D enhancing LCD tech

US Army Unveil Futuristic XM25 Rifles

Putin: Russia May Build Nukes if Treaty Falls Short

DARPA Long Range Anti-ship Missile Program Continues to Demonstration Phase

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Thursday, December 2, 2010

Flying car maker to aid DARPA flying Humvee

Internet Metering Coming to the US?

Air Force Unveils Fastest Defense Supercomputer, Made of 1,760 PlayStation 3s

Inter-Vehicle Communications Unit promotes safe driving.

BAE to Provide Laser Warning Sensors to Protect US Military Aircraft

Super Rubber Could Cushion Sneaks, Spaceships

Digital close-air support

3-D map of fly brain is to neuroscience what genome is to genetics

Next-Generation Firewall

DoD Launches Enhanced Secure Communications with Intelligent Decisions

Nuclear split surprises

A step toward fusion power

New Japanese Button Battery Generates Power From Vibrations

NAWCWD gets closer to putting mini weapons on small UAVs

Toshiba develops technology for recovering rare earths from uranium

Nasa's Orion: The next generation of spacecraft computing

ADS-B In brings air traffic management to pilots in the cockpit

The ‘red wine’ pill could be all-round miracle cure

Wake Forest Orthopaedic Researchers Awarded DOD Grant To Test Nerve Regeneration Gel

Subsisting on Arsenic, a Microbe May Redefine Life

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Brain Imaging Studies Show Different Cultures Have Different Brains

Making Disposable Dynamic Displays With Electronic Ink on Real Paper

Rare metal that stores heat from sun makes the 'rechargeable solar battery' possible

Attack of the Trojan printers

Computers Get Help from the Human Brain

Making Graphene Nanomachines Practical

US military to deploy robots in combat

Spawned from DNA, Mercedes-Benz BIOME concept car to grow in lab

Linux and graphics boot in under a second

Electron 'pairing': Triplet superconductivity proven experientially for first time

Megaframe Imager Can Capture 1,000,000 FPS

New psychology theory at Rensselaer enables computers to mimic human creativity

Where Do We Stand with Molecular Electronics?

Magnetovision: Birds' seventh sense revealed

How to create temperatures below absolute zero

Sandy Bridge Pentium processors unveiled

Cloud increasingly being used by cyber criminals

Graphene supercapacitor breaks storage record

US Pressures Amazon Into Kicking Wikileaks Off Its Cloud

Project Pioneers Silicon-Germanium for Space Electronics

Breakthrough Chip Technology Lights the Path to Exascale Computing

Iran says nuclear scientists and atomic programme attacked

Peaceful Korean reunification now a distant dream: analysts

Russia Chooses 4-Warhead ICBM To Replace Topol-M

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