BROAD STRATEGIC APPRAISALS: 2014

Thursday, May 8, 2014

Engineering better machines and buildings by understanding mechanics of materials at the atomic scale

From balloons to shrimp-filled shallows, the future is wireless

Magnetic Fields in Electric Cars Won't Kill You

Emergency Response Teams Combine Mobile Robots, Drones, and Dogs

First reversible glue bandage could save injured soldiers' vision

THz imaging with fewer sensors?

FAA: Data From U-2 Spy Plane Caused Computer Issue

Don’t Contain Russia, Push It East

NATO must invest in defense to counter Russia: US

PACAF Gen. Carlisle Warns China On New Air Defense Zones; Russians Pushing in Pacific Too

Pentagon tries to challenge unwritten code of silence among troops

Why Japan's Smaller Military Could Hold Its Own Against China

Ukraine Crisis: How Harmful Are U.S. Defense Cuts?

Putin Could Give U.S. Defense Contractors a Boost

Ukraine crisis: Russia rules out new Geneva talks

German foreign minister warns Ukraine is close to war

Drone Warfare: The Sky's the Limit

Democracy Lab How Putin Is Reinventing Warfare

Why the Death of the Tank Is Greatly Exaggerated

Minesweepers International Outdoor Robotic Competition on Humanitarian Demining

How to Prevent the next Heartbleed

Scientists Develop Coal-Killing Solar Cell Made From Tin

US Government Begins Rollout Of Its 'Driver's License For The Internet'

Research examines clues for superconductivity in an iron-based material

FLIR targets 'infrared everywhere'

11 reasons encryption is (almost) dead

Unisys unveils invisibility cloak for network traffic

Nanoengineers develop basis for electronics that stretch at the molecular level

Genetic approach helps design broadband metamaterial

US Army Testing Pilotless Black Hawk Helicopter

UAV Shipboard Landing with RTK

Identilock biometric tech unlocks a gun in under a second

AMD’s Project Skybridge: New ARM and x86 chips that are pin-compatible

Smaller microchips that keep their cool

High-strength materials from the pressure cooker

IBM's Watson supercomputer can help settle your debates

Tanks a Lot: Norway to Leverage Facebook's Oculus VR to Drive Armor

Mozilla: We have a fix for Net neutrality

MH370 Preliminary Report Short on Details

Unmanned vehicles for the carrier strike force

Putin's Asymmetrical War on the West

Heavy clashes reported as Ukrainian forces tackle pro-Russian separatists

Navy Looking for Fresh Thinking on Future Warships

CHINA: ENGAGEMENT VS. ESTRANGEMENT

Is NATO ready for Russia’s new-generation warfare?

Russian bombers, fighter jets 'seen over Crimea'

Pro-Ukraine Group Steps In to Defend City of Odessa

The U.S. Doesn't Need to Prove Itself in Ukraine

The Pentagon Just Got a New Ship That Can Track Satellites … And Help Destroy Them

Nanomaterial smart beads detect and repair corrosion

IBM Security: Intelligence, integration, expertise

WHO’s first global report on antibiotic resistance

Intro to Internet neutrality

"Swerve Assist" Algorithm Uses Power Steering and Brakes to Avoid Collision

Innovation: Reducing the Jitters

US goverment wants to limit sale of high-powered lasers

In recognizing speech sounds, the brain does not work the way a computer does

Solving a mystery of thermoelectrics

Oxford makes computers learn faster

Navy orders 10 Virginia-class attack submarines

Sikorsky proceeds with sensor-in-the-loop autonomous flights

3D-printed ultrasound cast could save us costly surgeries

Raytheon developing the world's most advanced digital radar

Navy readies X-47B unmanned combat air vehicle for new sea tests

Navy advancing carrier-based drone program

Navy forms team to boost shipboard cybersecurity

Raytheon Tests New Guidance System for Tomahawk Cruise Missile

DARPA Sows Seeds of Technological Surprise, Director Says

Beijing should reconsider its South China Sea claims

Pentagon says it cannot replace imported Russian rocket engines

Japan Prepares to Enter the Arms Market

U.S. Asian Allies Wonder: Is U.S. Ready To Fight China Over Islets?

Ukraine crisis highlights NATO defense spending problem: Hagel

Putin threatens to send in tanks as Ukraine lurches towards all-out war

Putin’s plan to reclaim the old Russian empire

Ukraine PM says Russia waging 'real war' against Kiev

Amid continued defiance, Ukrainian official vows: 'We are not stopping'

Obama’s pivot to Asia: Rebalance and reassure

U-2 Spy Plane Wreaks Havoc, Shuts Down LAX

WILL THE MILITARY GET A FLYING CAR BEFORE THE REST OF US?

Treat cyberspace like a battlefield

New material for flat semiconductors

MIT team wins Clean Energy Prize for solving solar’s shade problem

Rebooting Civilization: Survivors’ How-to Guide for Restoring Technology after the Apocalypse

Stephen Hawking Says A.I. Could Be Our 'Worst Mistake In History'

Building better atomic clocks

Nuclear power - All at sea

Project Ara module maker explores 'conductive ink' to create circuitry

Positronium gamma-ray laser is possible

Graphene’s negative environmental impacts

New material coating technology mimics Nature's Lotus Effect

How Self-Driving Cars Will Sneak Onto Our Roads

Scientists develop GPS for DNA

New revolutionary sensor links pressure to color change

Terahertz imaging on the cheap

Delving deep into the brain

Army orders UAV control for attack helicopters

The potential benefits of a laser-based interplanetary Internet

Congress Presses Pentagon For Details On Future Of Nuclear "Doomsday Plane"

Japan debates pacifist constitution as prime minister tries to give military greater role

US-Philippine defense deal revolves around China

Ethnic Russians: Pretext for Putin's Ukraine Invasion?

MAP: How Ukraine and Russia are moving toward war

Ukraine Presses Assault on Rebels With Warning of ‘War’

Russia’s buildup on the Ukraine border

HOME>U.S. Security Council Holds Emergency Ukraine Meeting

Why We Should Give Putin a Chance

Russia Can Lose Territory, Too. It Should Worry.

The Pentagon Literally Tossed Millions of Dollars Into the Trash

Researchers Develop 3D Printer Capable Of Making Fabrics, Stuffed Animals

The Brain Waves For Knowing What You Know

The touchy-feely robot coming soon

Quantum telescope could make giant mirrors obsolete

It's electrifying: the paint that becomes conductive when it dries

The Internet of Things likely to drive an upheaval for security

Human Brain Microchip Is 9,000 Times Faster Than a PC

Harnessing Magnetic Vortices for Making Nanoscale Antennas

Thumbles: a Touchscreen Interface Based on Little Mobile Robots

New 2D material could self-assemble into a transistor

NASA announces futuristic spacesuit design picked by online vote

Physics students produce a workable model for real-life deflector shields

Breaking up water: Controlling molecular vibrations to produce hydrogen

Welcome to the nano age

How test-tube meat could be the future of food

‘Solar’ jet fuel made out of thin air

Future of Air Navigation: Resilience to Vulnerability

Russia may launch crippling cyberattacks on U.S. in retaliation for Ukraine sanctions

Pentagon’s rapid plan for maintaining air superiority

Hagel: Idea of permanent peace in Europe is gone

Lockheed completes development of three new unmanned technologies

Pacific Pathways: Army prepares new tack for deploying forces in Pacific

Philippines to give U.S. forces access to up to five military bases

So Far, U.S. Sanctions Over Ukraine May Be Inflicting Only Limited Pain on Russia

Ukraine Launches Offensive to Regain Slovyansk

Cold War Against Russia—Without Debate

A Bad Move: Further NATO Expansion

The Real Tragedy of NATO

D.C.‘Insiders’ Are Wrong, NATO Could Beat Russia

The Perils of International Idealism

High-Tech Balloons Can Do So Much More

Droplet lens turns a smartphone into a 160X microscope

The Crash-Proof Car

Resource Effective BioIdentification System

Toyota is creating a combustion engine that directly generates electricity

SanDisk unveils a monster 4TB SSD

New rapid synthesis developed for bilayer graphene and high-performance transistors

Meet the 21st-century bomb sniffers

See the U.S. military's stealth dirt bike

Electrospun superglue stops bleeding

NATO Expansion: The Source of Russia's Anger?

French 'flying car' undergoes testing for special forces

EU firms help power China's military rise

DARPA eyes artificial limbs with sense of touch

Producing more oil by capturing carbon

‘Apps on a map’ link the command post, mounted, dismounted Soldiers

Boeing Showcases Future Commercial Spacecraft Interior

Hagel Emphasizes NATO’s Importance to World Security

Dismounting China from the South China Sea

US may meet South China Sea ADIZ with robust response

Pentagon report: Long sequestration would threaten F-35 program

Japan to conduct island defense drill amid tension with China

Putin Clamps Down: A Chilling Report From Moscow

Too Bad Ukraine Didn't Keep Its 2,000 Nuclear Weapons

Ukraine's government has lost control of east, says acting president

Replacing Russian Rocket Engine Isn’t Easy, Pentagon Says

As the World Warms, Navy Strategists Plan for an Arctic Rush

The Philippines-China-U.S. Triangle: A Precarious Relationship

F-35 is Liaoning's worst nightmare, says Global Times

B-1s Really Do CAS!

Sony develops tape tech that could lead to 185 TB cartridges

Circuits and sensors direct from the printer

LIX: The World's Smallest 3D Printing Pen

Three Weird Ways to Make Things Invisible

Nanoporous Material Combines the Best of Batteries and Supercapacitors

A small connection with big implications: Wiring up carbon-based electronics

New lab-on-a-chip device overcomes miniaturization problems

Manchester researchers finds unexpected graphene behavior

Power and Cooling in the Age of the 'Hypescale' Data Center

Microsoft's prototype keyboard understands gestures

Internet 'fast lane'

High efficiency solar cells stack up

X-37B Mission Mystery Gets Stranger

DARPA launches CODE program for UAVs to share information and work together

Harder ceramic for armor windows

Firm Helps Navy Dive for Missing Airliner

Congress Wants More Control of Special Ops Iron Man Suit

Army gets tactical comm closer to the smartphone experience

Russia Gives Green Light to Super-Heavy Rocket Project

JPADS: Making Precision Air-Drops a Reality

BOEING: Here's Why Lockheed's F-35 Is Flawed And Needs Our Help

Pentagon Bashes The Best Fighter Engine Ever Built

No categorical commitment from US on China dispute

The Sanctions Illusion

Ukraine Says Military on Full Alert for Possible Russian Attack

No sign of Russian troops withdrawing from Ukraine border - NATO official

KERRY: RUSSIA 'ACCELERATING' UKRAINE CRISIS

Russia's Ukraine actions highlight its military limits

The Chinese Military Is a Paper Dragon

Obama’s pivot to Asia will lack firepower

A new ‘off’ switch for neurons

Ultrawideband Engine-Area Network Lets Sensors Talk Under the Hood

Why Data from Automated Vehicles Needs Serious Protection

Cost of 3D printing could plummet thanks to new material derived from straw

Neuro-conductive metal liquid lets researchers reconnect severed nerves

Novel nanocatalysts for fuel cells

Microsoft takes on Google X with its own secretive Special Projects group

Multilayer, microscale solar cells enable ultrahigh efficiency power generation

How to create nanowires only 3 atoms wide with an electron beam

Beyond graphene: Controlling properties of 2D materials

Graphene only as strong as weakest link

Homeland Security: Don't use IE due to bug

8-inch floppies drive nuclear deterrent

The biggest cyber threats: spies, criminals or co-workers?

DARPA renews efforts to deal with a crowded, contested spectrum

Pacific Navies Approve Conduct Code for Unplanned Sea Encounters

The Japan-US Security Partnership: An Overview

US Has Military Plans to Deal With China, North Korea

‘We Won’t Invade Ukraine,’ Russian Military Chief Tells Chuck Hagel

Ukraine crisis: Who will blink first, Putin or the West?

US Turns Down Ukraine's Plea for Weapons

The U.S. Army's Asia Opportunity

4 Reasons Why Japan Doubts US Security Assurances

US military pact with the Philippines gives Asia 'pivot' some military muscle

Commentary: Maintain Perspective on Missile Defense

Europe, Asia plan to spend big on drone development

New Wish List for U.S. Special Ops

Why Ukraine Has Already Lost The Cyberwar, Too

IS PUTIN A RATIONAL ACTOR?

THE ASIAN CENTURY IN AN APRIL WEEK

Project recycles waste heat into electricity for spacecraft systems

Flexible battery, no lithium required

New solar reactor technology to produce liquid hydrocarbon fuels

New internal design could lead to batteries that last half a century

The Incredible Shrinking Technology

What Makes for Better CdTe Solar Cells

Japan’s 25-year plan to put a gigawatt solar power farm in space

US military’s mysterious X-37B space plane passes 500 days in orbit

Google Autonomous Vehicles Are Working On Mastering City Street Driving

SpaceX Successfully Soft-Lands on Earth for First Time. Is Mars Next?

It’s Crazy What Can Be Hacked Thanks to Heartbleed

Zephyr 8 ‘Pseudo-Satellite’

GOOGLE GLASS SIGNALS A WEARABLES REVOLUTION

Driverless truck trial

50 Facts About U.S. Nuclear Weapons Today

Pentagon to destroy $1B in ammunition

The U.S. and Japan are playing with fire in Asia - People's Daily

U.S. Beefs Up Military Options for China as Obama Reassures Allies in Asia

The War on Truth in Ukraine

French FM warns of 'incalculable consequences' in Ukraine

NATO Is Still the Answer

Can military's satellite links be hacked? Cyber-security firm cites concerns.

Why encouraging US allies in Asia to proliferate isn’t a good idea

A RATIONAL APPROACH TO NUCLEAR WEAPONS POLICY

America's Treaty Allies: Worth Going to War Over?

US Army Breaking Out the Big New Guns

New U.S. Stealth Jet Can’t Hide From Russian Radar

New breakthrough in nanoscale circuitry

10 Breakthrough Technologies 2014

Neuromorphic Chips

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

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