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The Motley Fool November 11, 2010 Tim Hanson	Why China Hates QE2 Explaining the Tea Party's unlikely ally.
National Defense December 2010 Eric Beidel	With SBInet In Limbo, Border Technology Is Anyone's Game The Department of Homeland Security's program to deploy a network of cutting-edge cameras, sensors and communication technologies along the southwest border has hit its share of snags and more recently a wall.
National Defense December 2010 Stew Magnuson	Proponents Hope 'Rodeo' Can Move Army Ground Robots Forward Representatives of some 50 companies, service research labs and universities gathered at Fort Benning, Georgia to show off the state of their art at the second annual Robotics Rodeo.
National Defense December 2010 Stew Magnuson	Technologists Make Progress On Autonomous Ground Robots Researchers at the Georgia Tech Research Institute used eBay as inspiration when they were searching for ways to make unmanned aerial and ground robots work autonomously to search for targets.
National Defense December 2010 Grace V. Jean	Army, Marine Corps In Pursuit of Robotic Convoy Systems As part of its modernization plan, the Army is funding several ground robotics programs ranging from small, remotely controlled explosive ordnance disposal units to large autonomous tactical wheeled vehicles.
National Defense December 2010 Stew Magnuson	Mix of Live and Virtual Training Will Result in Savings, Army Says Army training has taken place in three separate realms: out in the field, in front of screens where the real world is simulated with computer-generated graphics, or on desktop computers.
National Defense December 2010 Stew Magnuson	System Keeps Tabs on Troops as They Train in Dangerous Terrain In the wake of several fatalities suffered during land navigation training, the Army has created a new system to track troops as they find their way through rough and dangerous terrain.
National Defense December 2010 Eric Beidel	Greater Appetite for Unpiloted Aircraft Combat Zones Fuels Demand for Simulators The growing demand for unmanned spy aircraft in combat zones has increased the burden on training organizations that are being asked to produce more operators, and faster.
National Defense December 2010 Edward Lundquist	Marines Field New 'Smart' Video System for Urban Combat Exercises The new technology, called tactical video capture system, fuses video images from multiple cameras into a single three-dimensional view.
National Defense December 2010 Grace V. Jean	Spy Game to Help Rehabilitate Veterans Suffering From Brain Injuries To appeal to the gaming generation, researchers are developing a trainer designed to rehabilitate brain injury patients at Walter Reed Army Medical Center through adaptive scenarios that engage them in audio and visual exercises.
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