‘World’s Fastest Motor’ 10 times Faster than Boeing 747 Aircraft Engine

Sir James Dyson has unveiled a hand-held vacuum cleaner which is run on “the fastest motor in the world”, ten times quicker than the engine of a Boeing 747 aircraft.

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USAF Boosts Space Situational Awareness

U.S. military officials say they expect to have enough personnel and new computing power in place by October to warn U.S. and foreign satellite operators of possible collision hazards to their roughly 800 maneuverable platforms.

An initiative to boost so-called conjunction analysis—prediction that two orbiting objects could collide at high speeds—took center stage for military officials after a defunct Russian communications satellite crashed into an operational Iridium spacecraft on Feb. 10, creating a new debris cloud comprising about 700 objects.

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Underwater Laser Sensing/Robotics Technology

US scientists are developing hi-tech military technology designed to be able to act as an underwater radar, in essence, and detect things like mines. The scientists are working within Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute's Ocean Visibility and Optics Laboratory - sited at Florida Atlantic University - and their technology could surpass existing technologies' abilities to quickly establish and transmit data relating to potential seaborne threats.

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China's Compass to rival GPS

China's global navigation satellite system, Compass, will provide regional service in 2011 with a constellation of 12 satellites, a navigation industry insider was quoted as saying on Thursday.

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F-35 Radar's Electronic Protection Capabilities Validated During Northern Edge 2009

Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) has announced that it successfully demonstrated key electronic protection capabilities of the F-35 Lightning II's AN/APG-81 radar during the recent Northern Edge 2009 (NE09) joint military exercise.

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Storage Area Networks: The New Challenge After Networking

Storage networks provide information storage over long periods of time. This means storage networks make a large contribution to knowledge management, but the challenges are enormous: the quantities of data increase, as do the threats in cyberspace. Connections between and within storage networks must be protected accordingly.

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Japan upgrades missile-detection system

A new $935 million project called the Japan Aerospace Defense Ground Environment has been initiated to improve the country's automatic air warning and defense control system.

JADGE has replaced the Base Air Defense Ground Environment, said Japan's air arm, the Air Self-Defense Force.

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Underwater Robots Identify Potential Threats In Murky Waters

Novel underwater laser networking and imaging technologies being developed by scientists at the Ocean Visibility and Optics Laboratory at Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute at Florida Atlantic University may provide significant advantages over existing technologies in rapidly identifying and communicating potential threats in murky coastal waters.

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