Download or read book Defense Nanotechnology Research and Development Program written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Department of Defense (DoD) has a long history of successfully supporting innovative research and development efforts for the future advancement of war fighter and battle systems capabilities. Since the 1980s, DoD including the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Office of Naval Research (ONR), Army Research Office (ARO) and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)initiated numerous research and development programs focusing on advancing science and technology below one micron in size. Scientific breakthroughs and advances in the last ten years demonstrate the potential for nanotechnology to impact a tremendous number of key capabilities for future war fighting: chemical and biological warfare defense; high performance materials for platforms and weapons; unprecedented information technology; revolutionary energy and energetic materials; and uninhabited vehicles and miniature satellites. In support of the National Nanotechnology Initiative, DoD is a member of the Nanoscale Science and Engineering Technology (NSET) subcommittee of the National Science and Technology Council's Committee on Technology. Twenty three federal departments and agencies are members of the NSET, including the Intelligence Community. The NSET meets bimonthly to coordinate the federal government's nanotechnology programs.
Download or read book Nanotechnology for Chemical and Biological Defense written by Margaret Kosal and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-06-11 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New and unpredicted technologies are emerging at an unprecedented pace around the world. Communication of those new discoveries is occurring faster than ever, meaning that the unique ownership of a piece of new technology is no longer a sufficient position, if not impossible. In today’s world, recognition of the potential applications of a technology and a sense of purpose in exploiting it are far more important than simply having access to it. Technological surprise has and will continue to take many forms. A plethora of new technologies are under development for peaceful means but may have un- tended security consequences and will certainly require innovative counterme- ures. A relevant example is the tremendous development in biotechnology that has occurred since the advent of recombinant DNA and tissue culture-based processes in the 1970s. If US government agencies and the defense and academic commu- ties had more clearly recognized the potential for biotechnology to affect fun- mental security and warfighting doctrines 20 years ago, the situation today could be very different. Defense against chemical and biological weapons – from both states and nonstate actors – currently presents a threat that is difficult to predict and for which traditional solutions are increasingly less effective. Nanotechnology has emerged as a well-funded discipline that, like biote- nology, carries the potential for groundbreaking applications and the potential for unpredictable harm. The world is likely 20 years away from the full impact of the nanotechnology on defensive capabilities.
Download or read book S 189 21st Century Nanotechnology Research and Development Act written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book S 189 21st Century Nanotechnology Research and Development Act hearing before the Committee on Commerce Science and Transportation United States Senate One Hundred Eighth Congress first session May 1 2003 written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 21st Century Nanotechnology Research and Development Act written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The National Nanotechnology Initiative Research and Development Leading to a Revolution in Technology and Industry Supplement to the President s 2006 Budget written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) is a multi-agency U.S. Government program aimed at accelerating the discovery, development, and deployment of nanoscale science, engineering, and technology. As outlined in the recently completed NNI Strategic Plan, the NNI's goals are to maintain a world-class research and development (R & D) program; to facilitate technology transfer; to develop educational resources, a skilled workforce, and supporting research infrastructure and tools; and to support responsible development of nanotechnology. The NNI Strategic Plan also outlines seven major subject areas under which related projects are grouped, called Program Component Areas (PCAs). Investment in these PCAs is essential to achieving the NNI goals. This document is a supplement to the President s 2006 Budget Request submitted to Congress on February 7, 2005. It gives a description of the activities underway in 2005 and planned for 2006 by the Federal Government agencies participating in the National Nanotechnology Initiative, primarily from a programmatic and budgetary perspective. It is based on the new NNI Strategic Plan released in December 2004 and reports requested investments for 2006 by Program Component Area (PCA), as called for under the provisions of the 21st Century Nanotechnology Research and Development Act (Public Law 108-153). This report also includes information on spending for the development and acquisition of research facilities and instrumentation, a discussion of external reviews of the NNI and how recommendations have been addressed, a description of how the NNI participating agencies are implementing the NNI Strategic Plan, and a discussion of nanotechnology R & D funding through the Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs.
Download or read book United States Code written by United States and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 1420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The United States Code is the official codification of the general and permanent laws of the United States of America. The Code was first published in 1926, and a new edition of the code has been published every six years since 1934. The 2012 edition of the Code incorporates laws enacted through the One Hundred Twelfth Congress, Second Session, the last of which was signed by the President on January 15, 2013. It does not include laws of the One Hundred Thirteenth Congress, First Session, enacted between January 2, 2013, the date it convened, and January 15, 2013. By statutory authority this edition may be cited "U.S.C. 2012 ed." As adopted in 1926, the Code established prima facie the general and permanent laws of the United States. The underlying statutes reprinted in the Code remained in effect and controlled over the Code in case of any discrepancy. In 1947, Congress began enacting individual titles of the Code into positive law. When a title is enacted into positive law, the underlying statutes are repealed and the title then becomes legal evidence of the law. Currently, 26 of the 51 titles in the Code have been so enacted. These are identified in the table of titles near the beginning of each volume. The Law Revision Counsel of the House of Representatives continues to prepare legislation pursuant to 2 U.S.C. 285b to enact the remainder of the Code, on a title-by-title basis, into positive law. The 2012 edition of the Code was prepared and published under the supervision of Ralph V. Seep, Law Revision Counsel. Grateful acknowledgment is made of the contributions by all who helped in this work, particularly the staffs of the Office of the Law Revision Counsel and the Government Printing Office"--Preface.
Download or read book Nanotechnology for the Intelligence Community written by National Research Council (U.S.). Naval Studies Board. Committee on Nanotechnology for the Intelligence Community and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nanotechnology in the Defense Industry written by Madhuri Sharon and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-10-22 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book will be about various aspects related to applications and use of knowledge of nanotechnology in promoting defense activities. The area in which scientists are focusing includes (i) nano-devices such as sensors, GPS & computers, chemical & biological weapons, nano-fabrics, bulletproof materials, nano-stealth coating, use of nanotechnology in various areas of aerospace. It is intended to cover available methodologies and understanding of technologies for these applications. Not only for destructive but also to improve medical and casualty, safety care for soldiers, and to produce lightweight, strong and multi-functional materials for use in body armour, both for protection and to provide enhanced connectivity will be covered.
Download or read book Nanotechnology written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Subcommittee on Science, Technology, and Space and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 2008 Department of Defense Research and Engineering written by United States. Office of the Director of Defense Research and Engineering and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nanotechnology for Defence Applications written by Narendra Kumar and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-11-01 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the application of nanoscience and nanotechnology in military defence strategies. Both historical and current perspectives on military technologies are discussed. The book provides comprehensive details on current trends in the application of nanotechnology to ground, air, and naval specializations. Furthermore, nanotechnology-enabled high energy explosives and propellants, chemical, biological, radiation, and nuclear threats and their detection/protection, and camouflage and stealth for signature management of military targets in multispectral wavelength signals are analyzed. The book also covers nanotechnology-enabled armor and platforms, which may serve as lightweight and high mechanical strength options in contrast to conventional systems. Finally, the book also emphasizes future military applications of nanotechnology and its integration into ‘smart’ materials. Provides comprehensive details on trends in the application of nanotechnology to ground, air, and naval defence systems; Examines the application of nanoscience and nanotechnology in military defence strategies; Offers pathways and research avenues for development of nanotechnology and materials applications in military capacities.
Download or read book Senate Reports written by and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 1958 with total page 1432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Nanotechnology and Global Sustainability written by Donald Maclurcan and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2018-09-03 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rise of collaborative consumption, peer-to-peer systems, and not-for-profit social enterprise heralds the emergence of a new era of human collectivity. Increasingly, this consolidation stems from an understanding that big-banner issues—such as climate change—are not the root causes of our present global predicament. There is a growing and collective view that issues such as this are actually symptoms of a much more vicious, seemingly insurmountable condition: our addiction to economic, consumption, and population growth in a world of finite resources. Nanotechnology and Global Sustainability uses nanotechnology—the product of applied scientific knowledge to control and utilize matter at atomic and molecular scales—as a lens through which to explore the interrelationship between innovation, politics, economy, and sustainability. This groundbreaking book addresses how stakeholders can actively reshape agendas to create positive and sustainable futures through this latest controversial, cross-sectoral technology. It moves beyond issues of efficiency, productivity, and utility, exploring the insights of 22 contributors from around the world, whose work spans the disciplines of science and the humanities. Their combined knowledge, reinforced with various case studies, introduces an exciting prospect—how we can innovate without economic growth. This new volume in the Perspectives in Nanotechnology series is edited by Dr. Donald Maclurcan and Dr. Natalia Radywyl. Dr. Maclurcan is a social innovator and Honorary Research Fellow with the Institute for Nanoscale Technology at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia. Dr. Radywyl is a social researcher and Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne, Australia. She is also an Adjunct Research Fellow in the Faculty of Life and Social Sciences at Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne. This book is written for a wide audience and will be of particular interest to activists, scholars, policy makers, scientists, business professionals, and others who seek an understanding of how we might justly transition to sustainable societies.
Download or read book Nanotechnology to Aid Chemical and Biological Defense written by Terri A. Camesano and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-10-13 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents research into chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) defense and environmental security, exploring practical implications of the research. Contributions from a diverse group of international civilian researchers present the latest work on nanotechnology problems in this area, looking at detection, protective technologies, decontamination and threats to environmental security due to bacteriophages and nanomaterials. Highlights include the potential of Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) to characterize the nanoscale properties of microbial pathogens, the development of bacteriophage-based therapeutics, prophylactic and diagnostic preparations and their uses in different fields, such as medicine, veterinary, agriculture, food and water safety, amongst others. Readers may also consider an inexpensive bioassay suited for assessing chemical poisoning in the environment such as the presence of pesticides, sensors to detect ultra-trace quantities of the explosive Pentaerythritol tetranitrate (PETN) using nanotubes and electrochemical sensors to simultaneously detect and reduce the explosive trinitrotoluene (TNT) to 2,4,6-triaminotoluene (TAT) in solution. This book shows how cooperative research among NATO countries and NATO partners can make a critical contribution to meeting the opportunities and challenges of nanotechnology problems relevant to chemical and biological defense needs. The papers presented here are representative of contributions made to the Advanced Research Workshop (ARW) on September 22-26, 2014 in Antalya, Turkey, to address the NATO SPS Key Priority of Defense against CBRN Agents and Environmental Security.
Download or read book The Impact of Nanotechnology Energetics on the Department of Defense by 2035 written by Ancel B. Yarbrough and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The U.S. Department of Defense must embrace nanotechnology research and development in order to capitalize on nanotechnology radical transformation of the weapon system paradigm. The United States National Nanotechnology Initiative defines nanotechnology as technology in the 1 to 100nm range where unusual properties can emerge that may differ in important ways from the properties of bulk materials. Nano-inspired batteries and nano-energetic materials (nEMs, explosives and propellants) will revolutionize space access and miniaturized weapons. Nanotechnology is currently proliferating through collaborative scientific endeavors across the hard sciences. No nation is capable of halting nanotechnology advancement. The United States will benefit economically and militarily by increasing nanotechnology research and development. The Department of Defense should publish a nanotech initiative supplement to organize nanotech efforts and to provide overarching guidance for military nanotechnology research. The importance of nanotech to future U.S. economic development is matched by the utility of nanotech exploits to detect and deter nanotech-inspired weapons while fielding cutting-edge nanotechnology across the military spectrum. Nanotechnology development is clearly in the national security interest of the United States."--Abstract from web site.
