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Tokyo--The recent bilateral agreement to realign U.S. forces in Japan has commanded considerable attention, especially the decision to station for the first time a nuclear carrier at a base near [...]

Captured enemy documents--some burned or otherwise badly damaged--can yield critical intelligence for soldiers on the battlefield in a matter of seconds, according to Michael S. Yeagley, an executive with NovoDynamics [...]

A Bedford, Mass., technology firm has developed a multi-axis image acquisition and motion detection-ray system that is better able to identify weapons and explosives at baggage screening stations and other [...]

A new generation of spacecraft can deploy from low Earth orbit and soar to their final position via electrical propulsion. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] At the heart of the Defense Advanced Research [...]

Four next generation solar powered collection dishes--designed by Stirling Energy Systems and Tessera Solar--were recently showcased at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, N.M. These new SunCatchers are cheaper and more [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The U.S. Army--following several less than successful efforts--turned to a precision drilling machine company to demilitarize more than 40,000 obsolete tank cannon shells that date back to the [...]

* General Dynamics of Spokane Valley, Wash., is offering the Itronix GD8000 notebook that boasts 10-hour battery power. After four hours of rain and 26 free fall drops from 42 [...]

* FLIR Systems Inc. of Portland, Ore., is producing a family of affordable handheld cameras--called the Tau family--which the company claims are the 'smallest, lightest, lowest power, uncooled longwave thermal' [...]

* Northrop Grumman Corp. of Redondo Beach, Calif., is developing a wireless spacecraft bus for the Air Force that could lead to less expensive and lighter satellites. The radiation hardened [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] * A small, battery operated unmanned aerial vehicle--called the Orbiter--was tested in a recent exercise and is now being marketed to the U.S. military. In combat, soldiers could [...]

* Too many satellite terminals aboard Navy ships create electromagnetic interference. The hardware also takes up too much space on ship decks. As a result, the Navy will be consolidating [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] * There is a new, ruggedized personal digital assistant on the block. Distributed by Handheld US of Corvallis, Ore., the Nautiz X5 is a full-featured PDA that has [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] * Scientists and engineers have scored a first in achieving more than 105 kilowatts of electric light ray intensity in the final demonstration milestone of the military's Joint [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] * Preventing the. wrong people from acquiring discarded computer hard drives is not a problem if one has the Jackhammer Hard Drive Shredder that has just been developed [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] * Gore Chempak Selectively Permeable Fabric has been chosen by Blauer Manufacturing Co. for its single-piece chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear protective suits. The breathable material permits law [...]

* A nearly 10-year effort involving Hollywood set designers and military virtual-reality experts has yielded a remarkably convincing simulator for familiarizing Marine Corps troops with their combat equipment. Called the [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] * A Whippany, N.J., company has developed a system that protects troops in vehicles from rocket propelled grenades. RPGs have killed or wounded thousands of U.S. soldiers in [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] * Heavy combat loads are the bane of a grunt's existence. Help, however, may be on the way for soldiers and Marines if the services buy into Lockheed [...]

* Marine Corps snipers are expected to become a bit more accurate thanks to new equipment. They are to receive a tripod mounted, mil-dot spotting scope that dovetails with a [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] * Reliable, inexpensive and printable electronics are within reach thanks to work by scientists from DuPont and Cornell University, who have found a way to produce volumes of [...]

* The nearly 40-year-old Lockheed Martin C-5 Galaxy is receiving cutting-edge cockpit avionics systems that meet global air traffic management requirements. This is part of a larger modernization project to [...]

Scientists at Battelle have invented a smart coating that can detect corrosion before it can be seen by the human eye. The discovery potentially could save the Pentagon and the [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] * A Merrimack, N.H., company will debut this month its line of lightweight, single-skin hazmat suits at a firefighter conference in Indianapolis, Ind. Saint-Gorbain Plastics' ONESuit line is [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] * The first all-plastic ice sensor for unmanned aerial vehicles and other small aircraft has been developed by New Avionics Corp. of Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. It avoids the [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] * Diamond like carbon films that were developed at Sandia National Laboratory in Albuquerque, N.M., are being used on NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer to help determine how solar [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] * Lockheed Martin's video from unmanned aerial systems for interoperability teaming (VUITT) is allowing Apache gunship pilots to receive in their cockpits streaming battlefield information from unmanned aerial [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] * Two high flying Global Hawk unmanned aerial vehicles have been adapted for environmental science research missions thanks to a joint effort by NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center [...]

A tiny, mobile surveillance robot that can be thrown through windows or over infrared walls has been outfitted with sensors so that it can spot bad guys in the dark. [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] A fully immersive cockpit simulator for the Navy's E-6B command, control and communications aircraft is now operational. It was built by L3/Link Simulation and Training, Arlington, Texas. A [...]

Advanced ballistic computers that are paired with custom software are permitting shooters to score targets up to 2,500 yards of more. Horus Vision of San Bruno, Calif., recently earned a [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] An autonomous tracked platform that can be used for troop extraction, resupply, and search and security operations was tested by U.S. Marines in this year's Cobra Gold exercise [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] General Atomics of San Diego is working on a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency project to acquire triglyceride oil and JP-8 jet fuel from a photosynthetic organism. Under [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Putting the word out in an emergency to the people who need it the most always has been a challenge for local authorities. Technologies are now available to [...]

While many low altitude unmanned aerial vehicles are able to frustrate visual, radar and infrared detection, the noise they emit especially as they hone in on targets can give them [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Steiner, a German manufacturer, is offering a rugged binocular that features an advanced compact, roof prism with a new targeting reticle system that is designed to improve targeting [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] NASA will soon be receiving a space-based system that should help scientists better understand the impact of aerosols on climate change and global warming. Under development by Raytheon [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Navy helicopter and non-fighter aircraft personnel are in the process of receiving new armored survival vests. The vests, developed at the Naval Air Systems Command, replace bulky, two-sizes [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Reusable softpacks for squad level M249 machine guns are being used by soldiers in Iraq, Afghanistan and UN forces that are deployed at hotspots around the world. The [...]

* The makers of Armorbak Hydration Series in response to recommendations from soldiers in the field have produced four hydration packs that attach directly to a soldier's personal armor. [ILLUSTRATION [...]

* Soldiers and other security forces can now instantly detect a variety of concealed weapons--hand guns, knives and explosives--at safe distances. The keys are advanced optics and software that allows [...]

* A halon alternative portable aviation fire extinguisher that is made by H3R Aviation Inc. of Larkspur, Calif., was recently showcased at a business aviation convention in Orlando, Fla. The [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Improvements in image generation technology by BAE Systems of Orlando, Fla., have made possible smaller, more proficient and less expensive head-up displays for commercial aircraft. The Q-HUD is [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] * Jet aircraft noise in and around airports is a major pain for persons living near these transportation hubs. The upshot is that complex sound abatement for take-off [...]

* A sleeker, smaller and more rugged satellite telephone--featuring an internally stowed antenna--has been introduced by Iridium Satellite LLC of Bethesda, Md. The device, which is called the 9555, also [...]