BROAD STRATEGIC APPRAISALS: 4/1/14

Wednesday, April 30, 2014

When it comes to security at nuclear facilities, danger likely lurks from within, Stanford scholar says

Windows XP is a much greater risk than Heartbleed

US FCC to propose web fast lane

Start-Ups Aim to Conquer Space Market

Tweaking nanowires boosts solar cell and LED outputs

Lithium-sulfur batteries last longer with nanomaterial-packed cathode

Tiny Microchip Component Promises Big Returns

Miniature SiN frequency-comb microresonator leads to 1.44 Tbit/s data transmission over 300 km

Nanometer-Scale Magnet Makes Tiny, Powerful MRI

Fueling the Future

Breakthrough harnesses light for controlled chemical reaction

Europe’s Security Catalyst

Ukraine vs. Russia: military mismatch, but does that mean no contest?

Major step toward stronger encryption technology announced

Pivot to Asia: 'Why Keep up the Charade?'

Wireless Terrorism On the Rise

U.S. and Russian Dolphins May Meet in Black Sea

Critical military satellite systems are vulnerable to hacking

Special Forces and Nuclear Weapons: The New Russian Military Threat

Cyberwar: What Everyone Needs to Know

B52- Combat Network Communications Technology

Inside the secret digital arms race: Facing the threat of a global cyberwar

U.S., Philippines to Sign Defense Pact Amid China Tensions

With New Radar, Japan Sends Message to China

Ukraine crisis: Heads, Putin wins -- tails, Russia loses?

Russia complains of large Ukrainian troop buildup in east

Putin's Grand Strategy for Ukraine

BIONIC ATHLETES WITH EXOSKELETONS, ROBOTIC LIMBS, AND BRAIN-CONTROL DEVICES TO COMPETE IN 2016 CYBATHLON

Extracting energy from wastewater

Spaser Technology Could Make A Printable Smartphone Possible

Airbus tests prototype of electric airplane

Making jet fuel out of garbage -- a first

Ultrathin material glides from metal to semiconductor

Graphene has potential to reshape neurosurgery

\IBM invents ’3D nanoprinter’ for microscopic objects

Should Microsoft open source Windows XP?

Discovery of a novel gold-based superconductor

Joint European Torus (JET) Fusion Reactor to Break Even

IBM goes open source, ARM is there

Underwater Drones to Hunt for Explosives

Burning Ice and the Future of Energy

Can Big Data Stop Wars Before They Happen?

Sirkorski Demonstrates Unmanned Black Hawk

Navy Tests its Over the Horizon Cruise Missile Defense System

Lockheed Demos Enhanced Ground Control System and Software for Small Unmanned Aircraft

New Warfare Technologies, New Protection Challenges

Reforming the NSA: How to Spy After Snowden

F-35 Joint Strike Fighter's True Cost May Never Be Known, Amid Creative Accounting Fiascos

Pentagon: Hagel's Russian counterpart won't return his calls

Ukrainian PM Accuses Russia of Wanting WWIII

Putin Halts All Talks With White House

Eastern Ukraine - Descent into darkness

Ukraine crisis: Is war inevitable?

Ukraine Fears Russian Invasion Imminent

Boeing Builds the Navy an F-35C Exit Strategy

F-35 Stealth Questions Bring Back B-2 Memories

Russia Claims Its Bomber Jammed U.S. Destroyer

Making Stretchable Medical Electronics Practical

Robot swarms use no computing to cooperate

Controlling Brain Waves To Improve Vision

Inexpensive Process Can Turn Smartphone Into High-Res Microscope

Experts: Civilians not ready for EMP-caused blackout

“Graphene” to Replace Silicon for 21st Century Technology?

Startup figured out how to charge devices wirelessly through walls from 40 feet away

New imaging system brings lobster-eye design down to scale

A new twist in the properties of light

UK centre to shoot for nuclear fusion record

Lockheed lands $25M deal to develop 'weapons-grade' fiber laser

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A transistor for light

Future chips may operate at atomic dimensions

Smart components that assemble themselves

Anonymous' radio-based networking keeps protesters off the grid

US firm makes millimetre-wave network-friendly

Deploying unmanned vehicles from jet fighters

Machine makes drinking water from thin air

US Navy Requests Industry Proposals for Carrier-Operable Drones

U.S. to Test Seabed Resupply Systems by 2016

Self-healing paint could save Navy billions

Small drones to get more autonomous capabilities

Would China fight for disputed islands?

Kerry to Putin: 'Window to Change Course Closing'

Ukraine says Russia aims to occupy the country 'militarily and politically'

Russia holds war games near Ukraine; Merkel warns of catastrophe

Ukraine Halts Military Push, Fearing Attack From Russia

New Growler construction may depend on upcoming Navy exercise

Policymaking by Remote Control

Scientists ‘freeze’ light for an entire minute

Toshiba starts mass production of world's first 15nm NAND flash memories

Physicists create frictionless flow by adding more friction

Laser additive manufacturing in action

Electrically controlled polymer changes optical properties

Copper nanowires could become basis for new solar cells

Japan’s Plan for Centimeter-Resolution GPS

Graphene and Carbon Nanotubes Join Forces to Tackle Supercapacitors

Error-Free Quantum Computing Made Possible in New Experiment

How Japan Plans to Build an Orbital Solar Farm

Super Sensitive Artificial Nose

Researchers create a roadmap for neuromorphic brain-like CPUs

Net neutrality dead for good? FCC may endorse pay-for-play deals

DARPA to keep military communications open with floating optical fiber and networking buoys

The next super weapon: nobody's ready for it

Army places order for 100 GPS- and computer-controlled parachute cargo delivery systems

Raytheon and DARPA consider deploying unmanned air and marine vehicles from fighter aircraft

Room-scouting robot to help first responders, soldiers

Pentagon shows off man-size, ‘Terminator’-like search and rescue robot

Obama to Japan: Yes, the U.S. Will Defend You

Putin's shopping list: Which country could be next?

Obama says Russia not abiding by agreement to defuse Ukraine crisis

AMERICA’S RODNEY DANGERFIELD MOMENT

Does Putin Want a War?

Eastern Europe Frets About NATO’s Ability to Curb Russia

The Pivot Potential in Asia and at Home

Herbert 'Hawk' Carlisle: Strong U.S.-Japan alliance deterring China from provocative actions

Is America's "Rebalance" to Asia Dead?

Top Air Force general doesn't know if F-22 successor will even fly

New U.S. Cruise Missile Risks Dangerous Arms Race

Ford Fusion Energi Driver Goes Year on One Tank of Gasoline

Mantis shrimp inspired composite material

DoD Shifts Spending Focus, Prepares for Technologies of the Future

Demos Show Rapid Advance In Autonomous Rotorcraft

OpenSSL code beyond repair, claims creator of “LibreSSL” fork

Electronic Weapons: Brace Yourself For The Headless Sharpshooter

Adoption of battlefield surveillance system in urban settings raises privacy concerns

Navy Warship Is Taking 3D Printer To Sea

Russia Shows Off World-Leading Security Bots for Missile Bases

DARPA seeks to develop new automation system to reduce pilot workload

Pentagon introduces Atlas, its new "robo sapien"

F-35's programme costs decreasing, but acquisition costs are up

Pentagon plans to replace flight crews with ‘full-time’ robots

Punishing Putin: Why Pentagon is cool to sanctions on Russian arms firm

Russia Renews Threat to Intervene in Ukraine as Truce Falters

U.S. Conducts Spy Flight Over Russia

4 Army units heading to Eastern Europe

Don't Be a Menace to South (China Sea)

Asia's Two Very Different Futures

Obama: Senkakus ‘within scope’ of U.S.-Japan treaty

Why Obama's Asia Tour Is Bad News for China

A new approach to engineering the materials of the future

Bulletproofing the Grid

SL router patch merely hides backdoor instead of closing it

Ice or Molten Salt, Not Batteries, to Store Energy

Demos Show Rapid Advance In Autonomous Rotorcraft

US Space Command under budget pressure, re-examines future

New breakthrough in nanoscale circuitry

Security of VoIP phone systems comes up short

Microrobots, Working Together, Build with Metal, Glass, and Electronics

NEW METHOD POINTS TO CHEAPER, MORE FLEXIBLE WEARABLE COMPUTERS

Researchers Achieve Higher Solar-Cell Efficiency With Zinc-Oxide Coating

Like a hall of mirrors, nanostructures trap photons inside ultrathin solar cells

Tiny Origami Boxes Hold Big Promise for Hydrogen Energy Storage

NREL unlocking secrets of new solar material

High-performance, low-cost ultracapacitors built with graphene and carbon nanotubes

Vacuum ultraviolet lamp of the future created in Japan

Possible shortcut to graphene for solar cells

Graphene: fundamentals and emergent applications

Detecting and defeating radiological threats

5th generation Army tank cartridge reports loudly for duty

Pentagon’s Superpowered Autopilot Will Do the Work of 5 Crew Members

Japan warns China over ship seizure

Growing Chinese military budget may shift power perceptions in Pacific

Vladimir Putin Is Kaput

Reports: Japan Steps Up Surveillance Posture Against China

Russia Displays a New Military Prowess in Ukraine’s East

Welcome Japan’s “Destabilizing” Island Radar Station:

Stealth Vs. Electronic Attack

The Sources of US-China Strategic Mistrust

Drones On Demand

Why voice is the next big internet wave

Forget 5G – 10Gbps WiFi is coming next year

Astounding Dexterity of Honda’s Dancing Humanoid Robot

Intel finally kicks Microsoft to the curb shattering Wintel

Engineers design ‘living materials’

A new key to unlocking the mysteries of physics? Quantum turbulence

High-temperature plasmonics eyed for solar, computer innovation

Google’s smart contact lenses could aid the visually impaired

How Pot Smoking Changes Brain

Graphene You Can Whip Up In A Blender

New material coating technology mimics nature's lotus effect

40 Million Hours of Flight for GE90 Engines

Putin is confident

DoD Reshapes R&D, Betting on Future Technology

YOU COULD VIRTUALLY HOVER OVER A BATTLEFIELD WITH OCULUS

Focusing America’s Attention on Asia

Obama’s Asia pivot: A work in progress

Russia’s Fearsome New MiGs Could Be Lemons

The Coolest Spaceships Ever Built, Compared by Size

The Silent Hybrid Motorcycles the Pentagon Will Use for Stealth Raids

Why SQL injection attacks are successful?

MRI, on a molecular scale

Physicists design quantum switches which can be activated by single photons

A new self-healing chemistry for plastics

Brain Stethoscope

Could the Ukraine Crisis Reboot NATO?

US Navy’s LCS Is Unfit for the Asia-Pacific

Boeing's X-51A WaveRider

Electronic Weapons: Smart Eyes For Commandos

Biosensor bandage collects vital signs, health indicators from sweat

Air Force researchers test Google Glass for battlefield use

Japan expands army footprint for first time in 40 years, risks angering China

Japan to Station Troops on Yonaguni, Near Disputed Islands

Say Yes to a Balance of Power in Asia

Ramping up in Europe

U.S. Plans Military Drills in Eastern Europe

Putin stymies West with subterfuge

What Putin wants, and how he plans to get it

Military Sealift Command: Flexible. Forward. Seapower.

Nuke commander: Lessons learned from cheat scandal

In Cold War Echo, Obama Strategy Writes Off Putin

PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE SECURITY EXAMINED

A Bulb That Glows Using Gravity

Plastic computers taking shape, but won't replace silicon

Major security flaws threaten satellite communications

Scientists capture ultrafast snapshots of light-driven superconductivity

New type of barcode could make counterfeiters' lives more difficult

Innovative strategy to facilitate organ repair

Smart cards trump passwords, according to access control systems expert

High-energy laser beam shot into clouds could make rain, lightning happen at will

Graphene ‘spaser’ brings optical computing to the nano-scale

Impurity size affects performance of emerging superconductive material

Gecko-like adhesives now useful for real world surfaces

ALIAS SEEKS TO PROVIDE PORTABLE, FLEXIBLE ADVANCED AUTOPILOT CAPABILITIES

Wearables market to take off, hitting 112M devices in 2018

Will the Internet of Things Become the Internet of Broken Things?

The secret to swarming robots? Simplicity

UAV Market to Rise Strongly Through the Next Decade, Unmanned Land & Sea Systems Also Growing

Army first-aid kits include new eye shield

Japan Begins Building Base Near Islands Disputed With China

U.S. May ‘Adjust’ Its Missile Defenses in Europe

China boast: U.S. Marines would be like ‘marching band’ in all out fight

How to navigate the East China Sea dispute between Japan and China

How Ukraine crisis could pull U.S. to war

After Russian moves in Ukraine, Eastern Europe shudders, NATO to increase presence

Pentagon weighs deploying troops to Poland as militants snub Ukraine pact

40,000 Russian troops line Ukraine border

Europe's nuclear option

The General Says What Politicians Won't About Ukraine

Ukraine's Political System Couldn't Have Handled Nukes

Submarine Aircraft Carriers and Submersible Planes

MeshNet - A decentralized, encrypted alternative to the Internet.

Researchers develop scalable methods for manufacturing metamaterials

Researcher finds hidden efficiencies in computer architecture

Researchers successfully clone adult human stem cells

Nuclear waste heads into the virtual realm

Plasmonic waveguide stops light in its tracks

Exotic material is like a switch when super thin

Thinnest-possible nanomembrane produced

Internet security relies on a few volunteers

Nanomaterials Keep Pushing Lithium-Sulfur Battery Capabilitie

MIT invents meltdown-proof floating nuclear reactor

Zero-energy-consumption magneto-optical storage for next-generation flexible plastic computers

Surprising material could play role in saving energy

Wireless power transfer achieved at 5-meter distance

DARPA seeks bottom-dwelling ocean attack bots

Marines’ Networking-On-The-Move takes to the waves

What The Is A US Destroyer Doing In The Black Sea?

Fast and furious - the world’s fastest military aircraft

Japan to arm remote western island, risking more China tension

US sending helmets, other non-lethal military aid to Ukraine

'The Rules Be Damned': Translating Vladimir Putin on Ukraine

Diplomats agree on steps to ease tensions in Ukraine

Poland Fears Putin’s ‘New Russia’ Doctrine

Stop Blaming NATO for Putin’s Provocations

The U.S. Army must remain prepared for battle

F-35 Engine Cost Up, Sustainment Down

Washington's Biggest Strategic Mistake

Time for America to Rethink the Way We Nuke People

B-2 Spirit or new Mysterious Stealth Plane? New image of triangular shaped plane emerges

Pentagon Moves to Block Russian Spy Plane in American Skies

Making new materials an atomic layer at a time

Tiny Nuclear Power Plants Hold Promise

A primer on IP addresses

Magnetic microbots could revolutionize small-scale manufacturing

Military surveillance drone uses dragonfly physics

Google X admits it’s working on a space elevator, teleportation, hoverboards

Breakthrough could help solve solar power’s biggest problem: Power generation at night

Information storage for the next generation of plastic computers

Relieving electric vehicle range anxiety with improved batteries

Scientists capture ultrafast snapshots of light-driven superconductivity

Scientists observe quantum superconductor-metal transition and superconducting glass

Chiral breathing: Electrically controlled polymer changes its optical properties

A molecular approach to solar power

How phones work in flight

Pentagon Develops F-35’s 4th Generation Software

Army develops smartphone system to detect chemical, biological threats

Marines Seek New Tech To Get Ashore Vs. Missiles; Reinventing Amphib Assault

The Key to South China Sea Peace Is Apparently a Secret

US approves first transatlantic flight for F-35 fighter jet

What sequestration cuts will mean to defense programs, in no uncertain terms

U.S. power grid defenseless from physical and cyber attacks

Is an Asian NATO Possible?

The Navy Is About to Transform Almost Everything

The Real Reason China Wants Aircraft Carriers

Putin: Russia may invade Ukraine to protect locals

Is Ukraine about to go nuclear again?

Ukraine Is Not Ready for the Consequences of Taking Russia’s Military Bait

Start of World War III

Ukraine's Army Is Too Broke to Challenge Russia

Putin Asserts Right to Use Force in Eastern Ukraine

Repeated self-healing now possible in composite materials

Ten ways 3D printing could change space

Nanostructures Could Bridge Gap Between Optics and Electronics

The $1 origami microscope could revolutionize disease diagnosis, revitalize kids’ interest in science and biology

Are Hyundai Researchers Closer to Solving Range Anxiety?

Floating nuclear plants

Artificial Intelligence gets its groove back

Meet the pilots behind the sun-powered plane that can 'fly forever'

Nanotubes zip into bundle of solar energy

Fingerprint lock in Samsung Galaxy 5 easily defeated by whitehat hackers

Drones Could ‘Refuel’ On Power Lines

Common Missile Warning System Enhanced to Improve Soldier Survivability

Boeing testing Advanced Airborne Sensor on P-8A

Pentagon Warns More Spending Reductions Mean More Risk

China and Japan Seek Detente?

Military Transparency Is Overrated

China to boost space defense in ‘new-type combat force’

The U.S. Cut Military Spending in 2013, While These Two Global Powers Did the Opposite

Mr. Putin’s Power Play

Will Putin Fall Victim to One of History's Classic Blunders?

Three things Obama can do to push back against Putin without putting boots on the ground

The cost of Putin’s adventurism in Ukraine

Ukraine Crisis: NATO Boosts Military Presence in Eastern Europe

kraine crisis: Militants, army face off in east amid soaring tensions

Japan's indigenous stealth jet prototype 'to fly this year'

US EYES MORE ACTION AGAINST RUSSIA IF TALKS FAIL

Why the Senkaku/Diaoyu Dispute Isn't Going Away Anytime Soon

U.S. Plans to Build a Stealth Dirt Bike

Interview: Air Force Gen. Mark A. Welsh III

A Tale of Two Ships: On DDG-1000, LCS Faults Are Strengths

Darpa Turns Aging Surveillance Drones Into Wi-Fi Hotspots

Transforming Helicopter-Truck Hybrid Makes First Flight

Wearable Market Grows As The Technology Becomes More ‘Wearable’

Quantenna readies a 10 Gbps Wi-Fi chip that could supercharge home networking

Incredible: Researchers turn flat surface into spherical antenna

Sensitive Detection Method May Help Impede Illicit Nuclear Trafficking

Piezotronics and piezo-phototronics leading to unprecedented active electronics and optoelectronics

International Space Station to beam video via laser back to Earth

IBM Combines Light Emission and Detection in Single Nanowire

White Light, Stored Heat

Glow-in-the-dark roads replace streetlights in Netherlands to save money, energy

Shiny quantum dots brighten future of solar cells

Space: SpaceX tests landing legs for future rocket reuse

After Google Glass, Google developing contact lens camera

Quantum gate could link multiple qubits into single computer

NUCLEAR, BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL WEAPONS

Hacked U.S. surveillance drone over Crimea shows new face of warfare

Next generation of high-tech destroyers takes to the seas

We still can’t afford the F-35

Pentagon says Russian jet buzzed U.S. warship

Putin could change the map of Eastern Europe

U.S. giving Putin green light in Ukraine?

Putin Calls Obama About Ukraine, And The Conversation Is Tense

Russia’s PM slams Ukraine’s interim leaders, says nation at brink of civil war

CREDIBILITY UNDER CONSTRAINT: CRIMEA SHOULDN’T UNNERVE TOKYO

RUSSIA TESTS OBAMA'S ABILITY TO STOP ITS ADVANCES

Defending Japan and the Philippines Is Not Entrapment

The Pentagon Plans for More Drones in More Places

Glasses strong as steel: A fast way to find the best

Fujitsu develops technology enabling high-speed search while accumulating data at 40-gbps

A carbon nanotube approach to solar power

Nanoelectronic circuits that operate more than 10,000 times faster than current microprocessors

Supercapacitor-Enhanced Hybrid Electric Storage for Subways

Carbon and iron may be able to substitute platinum in fuel cell catalysts

Combs of light accelerate communication

New 'tunable' semiconductors will allow better detectors, solar cells

Better solar cells, better LED light and vast optical possibilities

Tiny particles could help verify goods

Providing the energy of things to the internet of things

Micro-etched components for surveillance UAV

Quixter- a palm scanner that reads the unique pattern of blood vessels in hand

Flowing salt water over graphene generates electricity

Hesitation Within NATO will Encourage Russia to Test Alliance

Sensor fusion heads for the field

Asia’s Cauldron: Is Geography Really Destiny?

Putin Approves Sale of S-400 to China

Chinese signaling in the East China Sea?

Growing Muscle: China's Neighbors Gear Up for a Fight

The West Leaves Ukraine to Putin

No, Putin Is Not Acting Rationally

U.N. Security Council meets as Ukraine 'teeters on the brink'

Ukraine Orders Troops East as Pro-Russian Forces Extend Grip

How Do You Solve a Problem Like Russia?

Ambiguities of Japan's Nuclear Policy

Let Asia Go Nuclear

Gene therapy successfully regenerates an old organ inside a living animal

Navy’s New 80-MPH Mini Combat Vehicle Can Drop From the Sky

OPENSSL FIXES SERIOUS TLS VULNERABILITY

Move aside 1080p, the first QHD AMOLED mobile display has arrived

10 supercomputers that are saving the world in super-fast time

Researchers bolster development of programmable quantum computers

UK Developers Create Reach-Through Displays For Tabletops

UC Santa Barbara researchers create a unique semiconductor that manipulates light in the invisible infrared/terahertz range

Researchers Cracked How to Make 'Invisibility Cloaks' the Size of a Fighter Jet

Three things to do to protect from Heartbleed

Power arm band for wearables harvests body heat

What Can You Actually Do with Newly-Released NASA Code?

Navy’s Star Wars-style laser weapon to be tested in Persian Gulf this summer

Toyota Fuel Cell “Car of the Future”

Electronic Weapons: A True Rescue Pod

Pentagon plans to spend $2.45 billion next year on UAVs for surveillance and attack

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