BROAD STRATEGIC APPRAISALS: 7/1/11

Sunday, July 31, 2011

DF-21D anti carrier weapon kill chain

Defining Quantum Computing

GE Holographic Storage 500GB DVD

Holographic Storage

Cracking Stuxnet, a 21st-century cyber weapon

PAK-FA T-50 2nd Test Flight

New Carbon Composite of Nanotubes and Graphene

Friday, July 22, 2011

Blast chimney shows promise, questions remain

Advances in computer vision help robots see

Seismic wallpaper

Metal Storm Chosen for Canadian Small Arms Replacement Program

Toyota's pre-crash technology takes control of steering

Mathematical framework converts junk energy into useful power

Scientists demand regulations for animal/human hybrids

IBM system scans 10 billion files in 43 minutes

Report: Iran Resorts to Rip And Replace To Kill Off Stuxnet

Self-assembling DNA structures carve out a niche

A-10 Warthogs Could Serve Until 2040

The Incredible Pull of Nanocomposite Magnets

IBM Speeds Storage Retrieval With Flash Drives

U.S. Lawmakers in New Bid for Taiwan Jets

Air Force Special Forces seek stealth robot jeep

Mac batteries could be hot tool for hackers

Boeing's all-new advanced pulsjet VTOL aircraft concept

Thursday, July 21, 2011

Russia declares 'era of Soyuz' after shuttle

Color-changing metal seen as gas detector

U.S. Intelligence Eyes Chinese Research into Space-Age Weapons

No More NASA Space Shuttles: What's Next For US Spaceflight?

Intel leads in process by two years, may get further ahead.

MIT: Inside the innards of a nuclear reactor

Wi-Fi for the Masses

Deep packet inspection used to stop censorship in new "Telex" scheme

Old fashioned methods best for detecting IEDs

Superconductor Breakthrough

Exclusive: Inside Darpa’s Secret Afghan Spy Machine

Holographic storage advance burns 500GB at Blu-ray speeds

Clinton urges India to expand influence

IRST, the Super Hornet’s Future ‘EO Radar’ Cleared for Development

U.S. Looks at New Ways to Supply Troops in Afghanistan

GA-ASI Awarded Contract for Hellads Weapon System Demonstrator

Race to the Moon Heats Up for Private Firms

Space Shuttle Aftermath: Does China Threaten U.S. in Space?

Russia pitches PAK-FA to S. Korea

Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Quantum Internet

Robotic Jet Ski Set to Patrol Harbors

Pentagon Struggles to Keep Ships Sailing, Planes Flying As Budget Cuts Loom

Conquering BYOD congestion in Wi-Fi

Wireless Sensors Harvest the Power of Vibration

Top general says Defense Department IT in 'Stone Age'

5 ways to boost cybersecurity post-Stuxnet

An advance toward ultra-portable electronic devices

Seeing the S-curve in everything

Artificial leaves make fuel from sunlight

Quantum theory gets physical

Physicists break 150-year-old law

High-speed ‘Photonic neuron’ devices blend fiber-optic signal processing and neuroscience

SEAL Minisub: Reloaded

Near-field communications has far-reaching effects

Unstoppable Robot Eats Landmines for Breakfast

Extra $1 Billion Overrun Estimated For F-35

Semiconductors Drive a Faster, Cheaper DNA Decoder

Taiwan Says U.S. Looking at Military Needs

Breakthroughs Promise Cheaper Titanium

Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Graphene discovery points to large scale production

Shock Absorber Harvests Energy from Bumps

The Afghan Supply Line Shifts From Pakistan To Central Asia

A cloak in time

Researchers Build Undetectable Proxy System to Foil Censorship

Why China Wants South China Sea

Autonomous adaptive collaboration among unmanned underwater vehicles

U.S. troops deploy biometrics in the field

Boeing runs hard in new space race

u-blox 6 GPS Platform Upgraded with Future-Proof Features

Magnetic sponge can squeeze itself out

$46 Billion Worth of Cancelled Programs

What do super computers and overclockers have in common?

What do super computers and overclockers have in common?

Quantum Entanglement Breakthrough Could Yield Faster Quantum Computing

Friday, July 15, 2011

Smart Tech Paraglides Tons of Airdropped Cargo From High Altitudes to Meter-Sized Targets

Pentagon Wants a Social Media Propaganda Machine

Ford Demonstrates Networked Cars

Strontium Iodide Crystals detect threats to national security

Graphene Gives Up More of Its Secrets

Scientists unveil tools for rewriting the code of life

Nationalism Rules

DOD: Strategy for Operating in Cyberspace

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US Navy defends timing of joint exercises in Vietnam

The same alloys used in DVDs can make cheap, synthetic neurons

P&W Rocketdyne fires J-2X

China Details Anti-ship Missile Plans

Precision Rounds Shift Fire Support Dynamics

USAF's Bomber Will Be One Aircraft, Not Many

Underwater Gliders for the US Navy

Thursday, July 14, 2011

An Inflatable, Portable Satellite Dish that Fits in a Backpack

Raytheon BBN Technologies Awarded $2.4 Million to Advance Satellite Communications

See-through magnet breaks field record

'Amplified' nanotubes may power the future

New inkjet printing technique for TFTs

MIT part of $18.5 million effort to create mind-machine interface

BAE Systems joins SAIC to develop DARPA Insight next-generation intelligence-analysis system

Four companies in place for DARPA program to develop precision micro-gyro sensor for smart munitions

SpaceX chief sets his sights on Mars

Alberta research aims to keep information secure

Cartwright: Get Rid of the New Bomber

The Neuron Whisperers

The GroundBot All Terrain Robot

Atom-by-atom sub-22nm chip fab machine unveiled

AMSTAF – Autonomous, Robotic Security Vehicle

Rafale's Multirole Capability

Taiwan to include China aircraft carrier in computer war games

Hackers Gained Access to Sensitive Military Files

McCain calls for special cybersecurity panel

Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Lockheed Martin moves ahead with design of rifle sight designed to make every soldier a sharpshooter

The South China Sea's Georgia Scenario

WiGig

Wireless Power Could Cut Cord for Patients with Implanted Heart Pumps

NASA to host next-gen mini-shuttle

Space junk solution in the works

Single-Enclosure GPS Anti-Jam Antenna for Military Land Vehicles

The Afghan Insurgents’ Low Tech IED

Microsoft Warns End is Really Coming for XP

AMD unveils its fastest mobile GPU yet, the Radeon HD 6990M

ESA's billion-pixel camera

“Transparent” photonics chip may lead to faster networks and cloaks of invisibility

Unmanned Aerostar-C flies towards certification

Is 'Luna Ring' the Energy Solution or Looney Pipe Dream?

U.S. Suspends Millions in Military Aid to Pakistan: Report

Top Chinese Officer: U.S. Should Spend Less on Defense

Raytheon’s GPNTS for Future US Navy Nav Systems

Friday, July 8, 2011

Magnetic Microprocessors Could Enable the Most Efficient Computers Physically Possible

'Optics table on a chip' could help solve computing problems

Utah Researchers Develop Efficient Wireless Charge Technology

Turning radio waves into power (with circuits printed on paper)

Lab-made organ implanted for first time

Harvard student builds a mobile app to detect malaria

Bionic glasses for poor vision

Nanomagnet memory and logic could achieve ultimate energy efficiency

Simulating the human brain’s networks

Making Headway on Cyber Counterfeits

New Laser Countermeasures Could Defeat RPGs

Million-core ARM machine aims to simulate brain

Graphene Enables Invisibility Cloak

A bomb-proof bag for safer skies

New Missile Warning Satellite Delivers First Infrared Imagery

Wednesday, July 6, 2011

'Superelastic' alloy could help buildings resist earthquakes

MIT Develops Electronic Glasses That Can Read Emotions

New Direct-Diode Laser Can Cut, Weld, Blow Stuff Up

New Direct-Diode Laser Can Cut, Weld, Blow Stuff Up

Flying Car Cleared For Highway Driving

Flapping micro air vehicles inspired by swifts

Army's software-defined radios to test new waveforms

Lasers go ultraviolet

'Smart Dust' Is the Future of Space Exploration

Liquid cement turns liquid metal

Nanoantennas – detecting the very small

Cornell develops a lens-free, pinhead-size camera

X-47B Can Operate From an Aircraft Carrier

Philippines Again Asks For Hardware From U.S.

Taiwan: Stealth Material Lets Ship Avoid Detection

Tuesday, July 5, 2011

New laser technology could kill viruses and improve DVDs

Next Big Thing in Silicon Valley: Robotics?

FLYING from Paris to New-York in 1.5 hours at Mach 4

Solar-Powered Plane To Fly Around The World In 2014

Putting sunshine in the tank

Laser, electric fields combined for new ‘lab-on-chip’

Army starts testing Lockheed Martin HULC computer-controlled robotic exoskeleton for infantry soldiers

The Peril of Deep Defense Cuts

New airport scanner can detect liquid explosives

Smarter speech technology to enable smooth-talking gadgets

Bionic body parts offer hope to the disabled

Rust busting self-healing materials

China’s HALE Drone to ID Targets for Carrier Killers?

US Army spent $2.7 billion on a battlefield computer that doesn’t work

Tangled Nanotubes Make Speedy Transistors

Crowd-Driven Combat Support Vehicle Prototype Completed in 98 Days

Navy eyes cooperative shipboard radar systems to counter heavy missile and ballistic missile attacks

The Paperless Cockpit

Auto-pilots need a birds-eye view

Philippines Tells China to Be 'Responsible'

U.S. Shifts Supply Routes to Central Asia: Report