BROAD STRATEGIC APPRAISALS: 5/1/12

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Wednesday, May 23, 2012

100-Year Starship Project Forges Ahead With First Round of Funding

DARPA seeks to develop small reconnaissance satellites that are cheaper to build than UAVs

Russia tests 'fifth generation' missile designed to penetrate NATO missile defense system

Return of the Vacuum Tube

New 'metamaterial' practical for optical advances

Electricity without losses

IHS iSuppli predicts 60TB disk drives to be a reality in 2016

Silicon nanotube lithium-ion battery stores 10 times more power, lasts 6,000 charges

Japanese researchers transmit 3Gbps using terahertz frequencies

Can probabilistic computing save Moore’s law?

Engage the tractor beam

Laser-Equipped MAV Demonstrates Aggressive Autonomous Flight

The Quest for a Universal Memory

Nano Devices Based on Block Copolymers Could Lead to Next Generation of Computing

Cheap 3D Printer Pops Out Parts With Blazingly Fast Speed

Technologies Evolving To Cloak Battlefield Vehicles From Sensors

Japan Buttresses Missile Defense To Counter North Korea

F-35B lifts off for first flight at Eglin

SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft catching up to space station

Researchers Improve Fast-Moving Mobile Networks

Annual report to Congress on Chinese military developments

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Tuesday, May 15, 2012

NASA is Training Up an Astronaut Crew for a Potential Manned Asteroid Mission

NASA is Training Up an Astronaut Crew for a Potential Manned Asteroid Mission

Team makes progress on high-temperature superconductors

Silicon 'prism' bends gamma rays

Canon eyes robot-only production for cameras

Real smart: protective clothing with built-in A/C

High-power robot legs can jump, balance

SSD vs HDD: What's the Difference?

US Navy to deploy aquatic mine-sniffing robots

Intel begins researching 5nm

Forensic electrochemistry to detect firearms use

AMD's Trinity processors take on Intel's Ivy Bridge

DDR4 memory poised to boost tablet and server performance

Berkeley scientists turn harmless virus into piezoelectric generator

Researchers map path to quantum electronic devices

Spider Silk Weaves New Path for Electronics

Spider Silk Weaves New Path for Electronics

Navy Wants Ultraviolet Cloaking Device for Jet Fighters

Taiwan - More ships fitted with Hsiungfeng III missile

Trillion-Dollar Jet Has Thirteen Expensive New Flaws

Lights Out For The Airborne Laser

US to conduct 'largest ever' missile defense test - Pentagon

F-35 to replace most US combat aircraft by 2020

Saturday, May 5, 2012

NASA's New Deep-Space J-2X Rocket Motor is Ready For More Tests

Airplane-Mounted Laser Weapon Project May Be Resurrected to Defend Against North Korea

Raytheon's JLENS and Patriot systems prove integration in successful intercept test

Fast, low-power, all-optical switch

MIT's glare-free glass doesn't fog up, cleans itself

The yoctogram weighs in

Holographic 3D Telepods May Revolutionize Videoconferencing

Intel Core i7-3770K Review: A Small Step Up For Ivy Bridge

Chips as mini Internets

Boeing Completes Full Landing Test of Crew Space Transportation Spacecraft

Carmakers Agree on Single Port Fast-Charging System

Swiss scientists demonstrate mind-controlled robot

Flying 3D eye-bots

Why the U.S. Wants a New Bomber

Lockheed Martin to produce counterfire radars for Army

DARPA wants technology to see through clouds

GPS Vulnerable To Hacks, Jamming

Open source problem solvers creating government 2.0

Transparent graphene-based material could revolutionize wearable electronics, solar panels

DARPA’s New Robot Conquers Stairs

IBM Researchers Build Multi-Layer Graphene for Photonics Applications

SpaceX chief wants to be spaceflier

'Ironman' a game-changer on battlefield

Russia warns it may target US missile shield

Russia warns it may target US missile shield

CBS News - Virginia F-22 Raptor pilots

Tuesday, May 1, 2012

Researchers set to perform bionic eye trials in 2013

10 GHz Optical Transistor Built Out Of Silicon

Physicists Crack Fusion Mystery

Metamaterials step into the light

New materials compete with graphene for the future of electronics

New Sensor Sought to Enable Military Missions in GPS-denied Areas

Researchers develop a path to liquid solar cells that can be printed onto surfaces

Navy’s Knifefish Mine-Hunting Robot

Physicist predicts Moore's Law will collapse in about 10 years

Silicene discovered: Single-layer silicon that could beat graphene to market

New Air Force One Debuts in Pentagon Planning

Israel denies it has access to Azerbaijan air bases

International Plot to Smuggle US Stealth Tech to China Foiled: Feds

Inside the F-35's engines: powering the fifth generation

ONR's Flexrotor enters new phase of development

Raytheon's JLENS and Patriot systems prove integration in intercept test

China Lashes Talk of Asian Missile Shield

http://www.nti.org/gsn/article/china-lashes-talk-asian-missile-shield/

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