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National Defense August 2011 Grace V. Jean	Drone Sensor Data Will Overload Networks, Navy Officials Warn The expected growth of unmanned systems at sea is raising concerns that the Navy's networks are ill prepared to handle the commensurate flood of data that the sensors will produce.
National Defense August 2011 Eric Beidel	New Army Lab Troubleshoots Radios Before Field Tests A recent version of the Army's Joint Tactical Radio System failed so often during tests last year that troops had to relay messages on foot.
National Defense August 2011 Eric Beidel	Nation Uses Sensor to Take Aim at Pirates An island country off the east coast of Africa has turned to an L-3 Communications imaging system for help in its fight against pirates.
National Defense August 2011 Eric Beidel	Gun Barrel Holds Up Under Extreme Heat In the heat of battle, machine gun barrels firing repeated rounds can become so hot that they begin to melt. Soldiers and marines carry extras just in case.
National Defense August 2011 Eric Beidel	College Students Put Military Inventions On Sales Shelf Ball State University has agreements with the military to share patents on technologies developed by the Navy Surface Warfare Center's Crane Division in southern Indiana.
Chemistry World July 8, 2011 Yuandi Li	Loudspeakers in your window Korean scientists have used graphene sheets to make a transparent and lightweight loudspeaker which, they say, can be attached to windows and computer screens.
IEEE Spectrum July 2011 Tom Gibson	These Exercise Machines Turn Your Sweat Into Electricity Exercise equipment that generates power is the latest fad. But will the economics work out?
IEEE Spectrum July 2011 Joel E. Moore	Topological Insulators Quantum magic can make strange but useful semiconductors that are insulators on the inside and conductors on the surface
IEEE Spectrum July 2011 Peter Fairley	Flywheels Keep the Grid in Tune Spinning masses face off against big batteries in the half-billion-dollar market for grid stability
IEEE Spectrum July 2011 Ritchie S. King	The Einstein Telescope Planning a bigger, badder gravitational-wave detector
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