BROAD STRATEGIC APPRAISALS: 2/1/11

Monday, February 28, 2011

Versatile Ultra-low Power Biomedical Signal Processor

Silicon Chip “Replaces” Rare Earths

Solar power harnesses sun to produce oil

3D bio-printers to print skin and body parts

Under Armour smart garment includes embedded sensors and on-board computer for biofeedback

Microsoft offers sneak peek at future computing

Department of Transportation Hosts Vehicle-Connectivity Challenge

Visualizing Wi-Fi Networks Through Light

Atomic antennae transmit quantum information across a microchip

Atomic antennae transmit quantum information across a microchip

Superconductivity's First Century

Superconductivity's First Century

Troops Re-Positioned to Provide Options on Libya

CIA’s Dragonfly Insectothopter

The second prototype of the PAK FA made its first flight

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Lockheed Martin Flies First Production F-35 Stealth Fighter

Remapping Computer Circuitry to Avert Impending Bottlenecks

Air Force fully harnesses wave power

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

3D screen could offer more realistic videoconferencing

After New START: Challenges and opportunities for 21st century arms control

Super-stealth sub powered by fuel cell

First robot marathon planned

The Lesson of Stuxnet and Aurora: Get Back to Basics or Get Owned

Targeted attacks, IPv6 complicate cyber defense

Robot ranks expand on the battlefield

Batteries for vehicle-mounted high-pulse-power weapons is object of Army industry survey

Researchers Creating Plants That React To Environmental Pollutants, Explosives

Synaptics’ New Touchscreens Can Detect The Head Of A Pin

The First Full-Color Display with Quantum Dots

Stochastic Robots Assemble and Disassemble Themselves

Joint U.S.-Israel Arrow Weapon System Intercepts Target During Successful Missile Defense Test

NASA's Robot May Get Japanese Space Companion

Calls for a ‘Jasmine Revolution’ in China Persist

Power Conversion to Save Electricity

VIDEO: Top USAF generals react to Russian, Chinese stealth fighters

Iran Warships Enter Mediterranean

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Cryogenic energy storage plant

Pentagon Looks to Militarize the Cloud

Pentagon Looks to Militarize the Cloud

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Cold Fusion: It May Not Be Madness

US army unveil $4m Hummingbird spy plane

Mind control puts you in charge of driverless cars

GPS OCX Program Status

Can Anyone Afford an IBM Watson Supercomputer?

Connecting every home at one gigabit per second

World's smallest computer

What will it take to launch a 6th-gen fighter

Monday, February 21, 2011

Compact high-temperature superconducting cables demonstrated at NIST

The Plastic Processor

How IBM's Watson will make money

Sharp to introduce high-output LED lighting devices

Automated life jacket detection enhances search and rescue operations

The Future of War

Molecular switch could allow for nanoelectronic devices

Largest antimatter 'bottle' under construction

Using X-Ray Laser, Researchers Image a Single Virus

On Its Way to Ultradestructive Megawatt Power, Navy's Death Ray Laser Breaks Another Record

Raytheon reveals first glimpse of next-generation missile

SpaceX changes focus on rockets

Apple to Intro Intel's Light Peak Technology?

'Kill Switch' Internet Bill Alarms Privacy Experts

Penetrate faster, harder with new AFRL weapon

U.S. Marines Seek Ideas for New Vehicles

Friday, February 18, 2011

Rooom-temperature source yields record-power terahertz beam

Air-stable transitor challenges amorphous silicon

Air-stable transitor challenges amorphous silicon

Metamaterial breaks refraction record

Metamaterial breaks refraction record

New Wireless Tech Jams GPS

Iceland May Tap Liquid Magma as New Geothermal Energy Source

Tokyo Gas, Panasonic to launch new 'Ene-Farm' fuel cell

Solid-state thermoelectric technology uses electronics heat to generate power for wireless applications

Telekinesis 2.0

Telekinesis 2.0

SSDs harder to securely erase than standard hard disks

Obama Puts $126 Million Toward Next-Generation Exascale Computer Research

Missile Agency Seeks Funds for Defensive Systems

Quantum computer research reaches ‘significant milestone’

Worm-like Nanoparticles Could Be Planted Under Skin for Glucose Monitoring

Future of Internet Doesn't Include an IPv7

US Bill Would Prohibit Internet 'kill Switch'

New Strategy Shows Importance of Space Domain

Lockheed Martin Completes Final Installations Missile Warning Spacecraft

Thursday, February 17, 2011

Taking brain-computer interfaces to the next phase

Proprietary Powder Could End Electric Car 'Range Anxiety'

Proprietary Powder Could End Electric Car 'Range Anxiety'

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Technology breakthrough fuels laptops and phones

Tiny 'Hummingbird' May Someday Fly Spy Missions For The Military

Scientists build the world's first anti-laser

Department Of Defense Wants To Enlist Private Sector For Cyber Defense

Watson: supercharged search engine or prototype robot overlord?

Internet of Things enters golden era for rapid growth

Toward an Optical Atomic Clock: Physicists Develop Atomic Frequency Standard for One of World’s Most Precise Clocks

Vibrating cockpit seat proposed for pilot alerts

Near-Field Communication: Beyond Mobile Transactions

Hope for human hibernation heats up

In-depth look inside X-47B first flight

US House votes to kill F-35 second engine

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Winning the Battle, Losing the War

Building the next generation of supercomputers

The Secret World of Printing Concept Cars in 3-D

'Sacred' rules of engagement defeat rationality in war

CUPP Computing could revolutionize the notebook market

Russian, U.S. generals to discuss nuclear terrorism in Lisbon

Hackers release Stuxnet's decompiled code online

New Microscopy Technique Could Reveal Mechanisms of Cancer

Senators Explore New Website Seizure Options

Decentralizing the Internet So Big Brother Can’t Find You

Microbots made to turn as they swim

Gasoline From Water?

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

DARPA's Brain-Controlled Robotic Arm Fast-Tracked, Could Be Available in Just Four Years

Steps toward a Bionic Eye

Easyjet trials nanotechnology coating on its aircraft

High-Tech Car Allows the Blind to Drive

Anti-carrier missile won’t stop Navy

Computer crushes human 'Jeopardy!' champs

How Metamaterials Will Boost Wireless Power Transmission

Machine turns plastic bags into fuel

Navy Begins Work on Fixed Wing Precision Weapons Platform

Device enables the remote explosion of improvised land-mines

New material provides 25 percent greater thermoelectric conversion efficiency

Boomerang III sniper-detection and perimeter defense systems

Kongsberg Protech Systems

Kongsberg Protech Systems

Powerful magnets developed to end rare earths dependency

Compact High-Temperature Superconducting Cables Demonstrated at NIST

Philips Predicts LEDs Will Take 50 Percent Of Lighting Market By 2015

Superconducting quantum integrated circuit may lead to future quantum computational architecture

Monday, February 14, 2011

‘Magnetricity’ Created in Crystals of Spin Ice

Researchers develop new hydrogen storage technology

Researcher investigates new material grown from sugar

Nerves Light Up to Warn Surgeons Away

‘Insatiable Demand’ Sparks $5B ISR Request

Boeing-built LightSquared Space-Based Network Ready to Begin Service

Piezoelectric Energy-Generating Roads Proposed for California

Stanford researchers develop new wireless technology for faster, more efficient networks

UCLA advance with new nanomaterials good news for next-generation electronic devices

Spray-on Solar Panels

US scientists create technology to end drink driving

New Lignin ‘Lite’ Switchgrass Boosts Biofuel Yield by More than One-Third

IBM scientists create ultra-fast device that uses light for communication between computer chips

SanDisk unveils ultra-thin memory chips

DARPA Challenge Aims at a new Breed of Light Armed Scouts

Russia: Foreign Power May Have Disabled Satellite

Mind vs. Machine

The cyberweapon that could take down the internet

Thursday, February 10, 2011

Nanotechnology could pave the way for hydrogen fuels

JPEG for the mind: How the brain compresses visual information

New Si based photovoltaic cells may be the light of the future

Army, Harris team on biological warfare alert system

New nanostructure combines memory and logic elements

Japan to go fishing for space debris

Boeing to Study Commercial Space Capabilities for Military Use

Powerful new ways to electronically mine research may lead to scientific breakthroughs

Cybersecurity named one of top five global threats

Obama announces plan to free up 500MHz of spectrum

What ultra-tiny nanocircuits can do

Navy Hunts For New Subs

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Chromalloy Coating Enhances Engine Performance

Hydrogels used to make precise new sensor

Advanced T- Rays Peek Inside Objects

Delving into manganite conductivity

First images of proteins and viruses caught with an X-ray laser

GPS Jamming from FCC-Approved Broadcaster

Researchers produce world's first programmable nanoprocessor

Researchers produce world's first programmable nanoprocessor

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Zero to a Billion; 802.11ac-Enabled Device Shipments to Soar by 2015

Ultrafast Quantum Computer Closer

‘Punisher’ Gives Enemy No Place to Hide

Intel Core Processors to Get Strong Authentication Security

J-20: China's ultimate aircraft carrier-killer?

J-20: China's ultimate aircraft carrier-killer?

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Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Brain's 'radio stations' have much to tell scientists

Brain's 'radio stations' have much to tell scientists

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Fingerprint makes chips counterfeit-proof

Implantable computers to restore brain function lost to injury or disease

Researchers develop "thinking cap", aids in creative development

Researchers develop "thinking cap", aids in creative development

Wine Spoiling Technology Leads to Development of Liquids Scanner for Airport Security

‘lightRadio’ to deliver universal broadband, replace cell towers

IBM sends 10-petaflop supercomputer to US Department of Energy

LTE will leave WiMAX in the dust

Graphene or Molybdenite? Which Replaces Silicon in the Transistor of the Future?

Paper Accelerometer Could Mean Disposable Devices

Nano-ink Research Gives New Life to Painted-on Solar Power Conversion

U.S. has secret tools to force internet on dictators

Airport Checkpoints Of The Future

Vertical-take Off Personal Air Vehicle

DARPA ‘Crowd Sources’ Combat Vehicle Design

Ares I being reborn for commercial spaceflights

US Navy X-47B Unmanned Combat Aircraft Completes Historic First Flight

Monday, February 7, 2011

Normal air could halve fuel consumption

First lasers grown directly on silicon chips

At What Cost Stealth?

Beaming rockets into space

Plasmonic nanofields may enable high-speed data transmission

University of Calgary researchers pioneer blood testing via microchip

eyeSight's Touch Free user interface - control devices using simple hand gestures

Skin-cell Gun helps heal burns in days instead of weeks

Atom-thick materials materialise in Oxford

Engineers Unveil Particle Accelerator on a Chip

David Hanson's Incredible Robot Heads

Behind-the-scenes with IBM's 'Jeopardy!' computer

Future of Main Battle Tank Looks Secure

National Security Space Strategy Targets Safety, Stability

SpaceX sells its first ticket for a moon launch

US Navy's first stealth UAV

China Develops Counterspace Weapons: DoD Deputy

U.S. Army Starts Making Hard Funding Choices

Thursday, February 3, 2011

New Satellite Research & Technologies.

Future Applications of Graphene

Space Fence: Watching Over Us

IBM SILICON PHOTONICS BREAKTHROUGH IN FUTURE OF COMPUTING

IPv6 Transition Technology

Gallium Nitride (GaN)

Weaponized RipSaw-MS2 UGV

Chirped Pulse Amplification

Wednesday, February 2, 2011

A new process will make solid-state rechargeable batteries that should greatly outperform existing ones

Printed electronics ‘enters fast growth phase’

Printed electronics ‘enters fast growth phase’

GRIN Plasmonics: A Practical Path to Superfast Computing

Lockheed Martin Remote Minehunting System unmanned vehicle

Small, hybrid-powered, manpackable UAV is goal of Air Force SURGE-V program

UMD Advance Lights Possible Path to Creating Next Gen Computer Chips

UK scientists set to launch Smartphone-powered satellite into space

UK researchers invent 'artificial petrol' costing 19p per litre

Gallium nitride semiconductors can withstand high voltage

Businesses Need To Prepare for the IPv6 Transition

Photonic chips to outperform conventional computers in five years

Exotic phases on an atom chip

Mobile Data Traffic Explodes, Cisco Reports

NATO achieves first step on theatre ballistic missile defence capability

Al Qaeda actively seeking "dirty" bombs: documents

Afghan War Winnable Without Pakistan: U.S.

Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Intelligent machine brain understands natural language

Cheap, clean ways to produce hydrogen for use in fuel cells

Lithium-air batteries' high energy density could extend range of electric vehicles

South Carolina scientist works to grow meat in lab

Foucault Pendulum on a Chip

Tiny water hammers bash blades

100x faster internet

Raytheon, Lockheed Martin get go-ahead to design Space Fence S-band space-surveillance radar

Power-over-Ethernet ICs for industrial and commercial applications

Plastic Photovoltaics set to revolutionise power production

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Tuning Graphene Film So It Sheds Water

IPv4's Funeral Expected to Come Thursday

Small Is Beautiful: US Military Explores Use of Microsatellites