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Moore’s Law lives: UCLA researchers solve power dissipation problem in chip design
Moore’s Law states that complexity of integrated circuits, with respect to minimum component cost, doubles every 24 months; the very advances depicted by the law, however, threatened to invalidate it at some point (the point is here, in fact), owing to the power dissipation in traditional silicon semiconductors; an innovative team of UCLA researchers found a way around the problem, and in the process also brought closer the day of convergence of photonics and electronics
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HSIEC awards grants to three innovative Illinois companies
Northwestern University’s center for homeland security entrepreneurship awards three grants to innovative Chicago-area companies
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Nanotechnology to improve warhead, missile design
The U.S. Army wants to exploit the benefits of advanced nanotechnology to create more precise and more stable munitions
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Enemy inside
This is more serious — and less benign — than “Intel inside”: practically no microchip manufacturing is done in the U.S.; when the Pentagon needs computer chips for its advanced weapons — say, a GPS-guided bomb — it buys the chips abroad; experts are worried that hostile entities will penetrate the chip factory floor subtly and stealthily to introduce flaws onto the chips; trouble is, until the chip actually fails in action, there is no way to detect such flaws; the Pentagon wants the help of business and academia in developing malware detection methods
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AirGATE to deliver RFID-enabled phones to U.S. prisons
There are 120,000 phones in more than 3,100 correctional facilities around the U.S., and inmates complete 750,000 collect calls daily on these phones; the prison authorities want to make sure that they know who makes what phone call, so prisoners will be equipped with RFID-equipped wristbands, and the phones will be equipped with RFID scanners
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Globecomm Systems awarded GSA schedule
A specialist in satellite-based communications solutions receives GSA schedule
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Missile market to grow to $100 billion by 2015; missiles for air defense to account for large share
Iran’s crash program to develop ballistic missiles, to say nothing of its relentless drive to build nuclear weapons, has rekindled an anxious interest in missile defenses; other aerial threats such as cruise missiles and UAVs only add to the drive for better and more sophisticated aerial defenses, offering opportunities for companies and investors
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Broin Companies to build large ethanol facilities in Indiana, Minnesota
Brazil relies on ethanol for a large portion of its fuel needs; in the Midwest they want the U.S. to follow suite
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Crusher, the unmanned ground combat vehicle
We know about unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs); now we are entering the era of unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) — and DARPA has an exciting contest program to encourage the development of sophisticated UGVs
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SafeNet shows new line of enterprise Ethernet encryptors
Metro Ethernet is increasingly popular among corporations and organizations, which means that it is used for an ever increasing volume of data — which means that the business of securing the data is becoming more urgent and more lucrative (another reason: Such transmission must comply with ever stricter security and privacy regulations)
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Mid-IR laser products recognized
Mid-IR lasers have several advantages over near infrared technology, and five companies developing useful commercial products based on mid-IR are recognized
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Boston meeting to examine nanotechnology contribution to national security
Nano- and microtechnolgy are developing rapidly, and have already made contributions in many different fields; it makes sense — urgent sense — to see what promise these technologies hold
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BroadWare's video surveillance integrated with Intergraph command and control solution
Integrated technologies will allow for faster and more informed decision making and response in the event of an emergency
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Marketing tool for VoIP: We make it more difficult for the NSA to eavesdrop on you
One thing NSA does not like about Internet-based communication: The packet-based technology makes it more difficult to eavesdrop on suspects
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The long view
Nuclear Has Changed. Will the U.S. Change with It?
Fueled by artificial intelligence, cloud service providers, and ambitious new climate regulations, U.S. demand for carbon-free electricity is on the rise. In response, analysts and lawmakers are taking a fresh look at a controversial energy source: nuclear power.
Huge Areas May Face Possibly Fatal Heat Waves if Warming Continues
A new assessment warns that if Earth’s average temperature reaches 2 degrees C over the preindustrial average, widespread areas may become too hot during extreme heat events for many people to survive without artificial cooling.
Exploring the New Nuclear Energy Landscape
In the last few years, the U.S. has seen a resurgence of interest in nuclear energy and its potential for helping meet the nation’s growing demands for clean electricity and energy security. Meanwhile, nuclear energy technologies themselves have advanced, opening up new possibilities for their use.