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Active Denial System (ADS)
Adaptive Vehicle Make (AVM) program
Advanced extremely high frequency (AEHF)/MILSTAR 3
Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA)
Advance tactical laser (ATL)
Aerospace technology
Aggression
Air-augmented rocket
Airborne Laser (ABL) program
Air-breathing propulsion; air-augmented rocket, or ducted rocket; air-launch proponents, flexibility; Australian-led international HyShot program; beneficial characteristics; forms of; high-altitude balloons; liquid hydrogen; orbital launch; ramjet; RP-1 (a highly refined kerosene); Scaled Composites; scramjet-powered vehicles; scramjet, problems of; Skylon; solid-fuelled “ramrockets”; technological breakthroughs; use of conventional aviation propulsion; U.S. X-43A; U.S. X-43A; wings or wing-like surfaces
Aircraft-like operations; aircraft reusability; chemical energy; costs of present-day LEO; mission flexibility; Space Launch Complex-6 (SLC-6); space shuttle program
Aircraft reusability
Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) program
Air-Launched Miniature Homing Vehicle (ALMHV)
Air-launch proponents, flexibility
Alpha decay
Aluminum particle and water ice (ALICE) propellant rocket
“Amerika Bomber”
Amphetamines, use of
Analog systems/computers
Anarchical international system
Anthrax attacks (2001)
Antiballistic missile (ABM) treaty
Antipersonnel landmine
Anti-Satellite (ASAT) weapons
Antiship ballistic missile (ASBM)
Antivirus software
Arab Spring
Area bombing
ARPA-E
“Arsenal of democracy” (President Roosevelt)
Asimov's three laws of robotics
Astropolitik
Athletic equipment manufacturers
Atlantis STS-125 mission
Atomic force microscope (AFM)
Atomic-scale fabrication
Atoms, definition
Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
B-52
Ballistic Missile Intercept: boost phase; direct ascent; midcourse
Ballistic nylon
Balloon technology
Biofuels
Biogeography
Biological weapons
Biological Weapons Convention (BWC)
Biometric technology
Biotechnology: brain fingerprinting; brain-scanning technology; caffeine; DARPA; drug-delivery systems; field of medical ethics; first aid systems; food; GM food plants; heat, producing; H5N1 virus; Information Age; meal, ready-to-eat (MRE); MEMS; metabolic wastes; military; nanotechnology and advance computing; national security; overdose; PORC; reduced side effects of drugs; regenerative medicine; side effects; stealth and precision-guided weapons; stimulants, use of; stress; TBI vs. PTSD; TDNDS; therapeutic medicines; uncontrolled violence; U.S. Army programs; U.S. military labs, requirements; Warfare in the 21st century
Bioterrorism
“Black boxes”
Blue-Ray technologies
Bombs, smart
BoMI (bomber missile)
Botnets
Brain-computer interfaces (BCI)
Brain fingerprinting
Brain-scanning technology
Brain waves
Brilliant Pebbles
Brute-force method
Buzzword (synthetic vision systems)
Caffeine
Carbon nanotube (CNT)
Cathode ray tube (CRT)
CBU-97 sensor fused weapon (SFW)
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Chemical energy
Chemical laser
Chemical oxygen iodine laser (COIL)
Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC)
“Civil society”
Claytronics
Close-in weapons systems (CIWS)
Cold War espionage war
Collateral damage, limiting
Colonel John Boyd's OODA
Command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (C4ISR) tools
Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS)
Commission to Assess the Threat to the United States from Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) Attack
Computer autonomy: air, land, and sea; (CBU-97 SFW; control over UGS; DARPA-run competitions; DDOS; EOD units; maritime environment challenges; robot swarm; RWS turrets; UAS; UGSs; UGVs; UUV; X-37B mission objectives; X-47B UCAS-D program); autonomous data analysis; (biogeography; CRM; DARPA; Deep Learning; facial-recognition technology; fraud detection; intelligence programs; RATS program; surveillance cameras; TIA project); C4ISR tools; decision making; (antipersonnel landmine; area bombing; Bin Laden, capturing; collateral damage, limiting; limited ability for a computer; Operation Neptune Spear; Ottawa Treaty; philosophical problem; ROE; satellite-based early-warning system; still-hypothetical autonomous system; UNHRC); digital technology; (biometric technology; brute-force method; combining multiple sensor types; digital-computer revolution; DSMAC; effectiveness of weapons; FY2009–2034 Unmanned System Integration Road; GPS; home-grown UAS concepts; IFF; INS; JDAM series; LOAL; models of robotic vacuums; National Defense Authorization Act; POW conventions; psychological impact of drone operation or supervision; risks—training and preparation; robotics; Southern Cross II; speed; The Spirit of Butts Farm or TAM-5; TERCOM; “three Ds”; UAVs and UASs; UCAS; unmanned systems; U.S. Army's FCS; U.S. proliferation in battlefield robotics); and great expectations; (analog systems/computers; convergence with telecommunications; cyber threats; DEW attack; digital encoded data, advantage of; digital logic—mathematical operations; “digital Pearl Harbor”; digital technology; Information Age; Internet; interstate cyber conflict; Moore's law; NAND; networking; NW3C; RMA; SCADA; Social media; Stuxnet computer virus; transistor technology; two-digit (binary) numbering system; VPN software); Robot: (antivirus software; computer-controlled agents, or “bots”; concept of “strong AI”; lack of a physical presence; “loyalty” or “harm”; OODA (observe, orient, decide, act); robota)
Computer-controlled agents, or “bots”
Computer input options
Conducted energy devices (CEDs)
Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report
Continuation of Sanctuary
“Conventional airpower”
Conventional aviation propulsion
Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW), 1980
Convergence with telecommunications
Counter-electronics HPM advanced missile project (CHAMP)
CSS-5
Customer relations management (CRM)
Cyber conflict, interstate
Cyber threats
DARPA Information Innovation Office program
Deep Learning program
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA); challenges; funding; -run competitions
Department of Defense
Department of Energy
Department of Homeland Security
Depleted uranium (DU)
Deuterium
3D fabrication; cost-to-benefit ratio; 3D printing technology; mail and telegrams; military jet engines; military organizations; UAV
Digital-computer revolution
“Digital Pearl Harbor”
Digital scene-mapping area correlator (DSMAC)
Digital technology
Directed energy weapons (DEWs); accidental misuse; attack; -based defense; -based strike weapon; cathode ray tube (CRT); EM radiation; HPM and radio frequency; indiscriminate energy weapons; lasers part i: basics; lasers part iii: electric lasers and the promise of limitless defense; lasers part ii: stand-ins and false starts; less-than-lethal weapons and DEW; Revolution in Military Affairs; SBL concepts
Discover magazine article (1994)
Display and optics technology
Distributed denial of service (DDOS)
DNA analysis technology
DNA-like computer tape
DongFeng-21 (DF-21)
Dreadnought arms race
Drexler, K. Eric
Drug-delivery systems
Dual-use; nanotechnology; nature of biotech
Ducted rocket
Electroencephalography (EEG)
Electromagnetic (EM) radiation
Electronic warfare (EW) systems
Element, definition
Emergency medicine, improved
Emerging technologies (ETs)
EM pulse (EMP)
EM railgun
Energy states
Energy weapons, indiscriminate; HANDs; HANEs; high-energy EMP; high-enough altitude; MAD; nuclear anti-satellite (ASAT); U.S. nuclear forces
Engines of Creation
Eurofighter Typhoon
European Union Galileo system
Exoskeleton, powered
Explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) units
Eye tracking
“Fabber”
Facial-recognition technology
Falcon 1
Falcon 9
Fiber laser
First aid systems
First Strike Ration© (FSR™)
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Force enhancement, space
Fossil fuels
Fractional orbit bombardment system (FOBS), Soviet Union's
Fraud detection
Free electron laser (FEL)
F-86 Saber
F-117 stealth fighter
Fuel air explosives (FAEs)
Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)
Future Combat System (FCS)
Future, Fast, Flexible, Fractionated, Free-Flying Spacecraft United by Information Exchange (System F6) program
Future Force Warrior program
Future Warrior
“Futuristic nanotechnology.” See Nanotechnology FY2009–2034 Unmanned System Integration Road
Gas dynamic laser technology
GASER or GRASER
Gas turbine (jet) engines
General Electric, 1960s
Genetically modified (GM) food
Genetic engineering and synthetic biology
Genetics: biofuels; biological weapons; brain waves; CDC; computer input options; DNA analysis technology; drug-enhanced “super soldier”; dual-use nature of biotech; energy independence and security; fossil fuels; genetic engineering and synthetic biology; Handiman; iGEM competition; man and machine; medical supervision; open-source biotech and biohacking; powered exoskeleton; spider silk and milk; WMDs
German blitzkrieg doctrine
Global Protections against Limited Strikes (GPALS) program
Global War on Terror
GLONASS
Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ)
Grain silo explosions
Graphene
Gray goo scenario
Guided missile technology
Handiman
Hands-on-throttle-and-stick (HOTAS)
Head-mounted displays (HMD)
Heads-up-display (HUD)
High-altitude balloons
High-altitude nuclear detonations (HANDs)
High-altitude nuclear events or explosions (HANEs); damaging effects of; demonstration of damage a
High-energy laser (HEL); weapons
High-power microwave (HPM) and radio frequency; CHAMP; “limited nuclear war” concept; MANPAD missile systems; “mature technology”; MHD technologies; problem of battle-damage assessment; radar, radar warning, and communications antenna; RF and HPM weapons; targeting the “black boxes”; UAV; Vigilant Eagle system; vulnerability to electronic attacks
H1N1 influenzas
H5N1 virus
Home-grown UAS concepts
Hubble Space Telescope (HST) servicing mission
Human Genome Project
Human Universal Load Carrier (HULC)
Hybrid rockets
Hypersonic gliding
HyShot program
Identification friend or foe (IFF)
Improvised explosive devices (IEDs)
Inertial navigation systems (INS)
Information Age
Intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM)
International genetically engineered machine (iGEM) competition
International Risk Governance Council
International Space Station (ISS)
International Telecommunication Union (ITU) classification
Internet Crime Complaint Center
“Intolerable heating sensation”
Iron Dome system
Japanese Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult
Jasmine Revolution
Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) system
Joint Operationally Responsive Space Office
Junk e-mail (spam)
Kennedy Space Center (KSC)
Kevlar. See Manmade fibers “Kill mechanism” laser weapon
Kilowatt-class laser
Kinetic energy (KE)
Kurzweil, Ray
Lab-on-a-chip (LOC) devices
Laser detection and ranging (LADAR) sensors
Lasers, basics; Blue-Ray technologies; civilian-world applications; DARPA Challenges; energy states; FEL; fiber laser; GASER or GRASER; HEL; LADAR sensors; MASER; population inversion; pumping
Lasers, electric and limitless defense; CIWS; DEW-based defense; effectiveness of a defense; EM radiation; FEL program; Global War on Terror; kilowatt-class laser; power generation; U.S. DEW programs; vertical launch; ZEUS-HLONS
Lasers, stand-ins and false starts; ABL program; ATL; COIL; guided missile technology; Iron Dome; laser weapon, “kill mechanism”; limited energy delivery rate; liquid-fuelled rocketry; megawatt-class laser power; missile defense; MTHEL programs; natural limits; U.S. ABL program; U.S.-Israeli THEL; U.S. Missile Defense ALTB; YAL-1A program
Launch on need (LON)
Launch vehicle: expendable; hybrid; reusable
Less-than-lethal force, concept of
Less-than-lethal weapons; and DEW; (ADS program; ASAT weapon; capabilities and limitations of a tool; CCW; 1980 CCW; CEDs; concept of; DEW; DEW-based strike weapon; “harmless” nature; HEL weapons; “intolerable heating sensation”; ITU classification; less-than-lethal weapons technology; LRAD; military less-than-lethal weapons; non-lethal; problem-free development; proliferation; “1/64th of an inch”; U.S. ADS; ZM-87 Portable Laser Disturber); “harmless” nature of; military
Lightcraft concept, Dr. Myrabo's
Light detection and ranging (LIDAR)
“Limited nuclear war” concept
Liquid-fuelled rocketry
Liquid hydrogen
Lock-on-after-launch (LOAL)
Long-range acoustic device (LRAD)
Low earth orbit (LEO)
Lund Variable Velocity Weapons System (LVVWS)
Mach number
Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) technologies
Maneuverable reentry vehicle (MaRV) warheads
Manhattan Project
Manmade fibers
Man-portable air-defense (MANPAD) missile systems
Manufacturing Experimentation and Outreach (MENTOR) subprogram
“Mature technology” Dr. Kopp
Meal, cold weather and the food packet, long-range patrol (MCW/LRP)
Meal, ready-to-eat (MRE)
Medical supervision
Megawatt-class laser power
Metabolic wastes
Micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS)
Microelectronic sensors
Micrometer (micron) scale
Microwave amplification by stimulated emission of radiation (MASER)
Mig-15
Military ET
MILSTAR 3
Missile defense system
MIT's Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies
Mobile THEL (MTHEL) programs
Moore's law
“Mother ship” aircraft
M4 Sherman
Multiple independent reentry vehicle (MIRV)
Mutually assured destruction (MAD)
NAND (negated AND)
Nano-aluminum
“Nano-divide”
Nanomaterials safety
Nanotechnology; and advance computing; 3D fabrication; by K. Eric Drexler; nanoscience and engineering; and nations; NNI's definition; science and engineering at nanometer scale; security and defense
NASA
National Aerospace Plane (NASP)/X-30
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001
National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI); funding (2000); March 2010 assessment of the U.S.
National security
National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C)
NavStar global positioning system (GPS)
Networking
“Non-lethal.” See Less-than-lethal weapons North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
Nuclear anti-satellite (ASAT). See Anti-Satellite (ASAT)
Nuclear, biological, and chemical (NBC) hazards
Nuclear bomb-pumped X-ray laser
Nuclear fusion
Objective Force Warrior
2010: Odyssey Two, Clarke's, Arthur C.
Office of Naval Research's Electromagnetic Railgun Innovative Naval Prototype (INP) program
OODA (observe, orient, decide, act)
Open-source biotech and biohacking
Operational responsive space (ORS); proponents of
Operation Neptune Spear
Opposition force (OPFOR)
Orbital altitude and orbital velocity
Orbital launch
Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV) program
Ottawa Treaty
Outer Space Treaty (OST)
“Overdose” drug
Pegasus launch vehicle, Orbital Science's
“Pep pills”
Performance optimizing ration components (PORC)
Photolithography
Pister, Dr. Kris
Polaris
Population inversion
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
POW conventions
Powered exoskeleton
Power generation
Precision-guided munitions (PGM); technology
Precision warfare
Precision weapons
Prevention of an Arms Race in Outer Space (PAROS)
Problem-free development
Programmable drug-delivery systems
Project Glass
Project ROBO (rocket bomber)
Proliferation; and arms racing; (European Union Galileo system; GLONASS; low-cost space access; relaxed access to the earth's orbit; space weapons development, arguments against)
Prompt Global Strike (PGS)
Protocol IV, Protocol on Blinding Laser Weapons of the CCW
Pulse-detonation engines
Pumping
Quantum computers
Radical vision. See Nanotechnology Radio frequency ID (RFID) tags
Radioisotope thermoelectric generators (RTGs)
Ramjet (scramjet)
Recycled U.S. ballistic missiles
Regenerative medicine
Remote manipulator system (RMS) or Canadarm
Remote weapon station (RWS) turrets
Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA)
Revolutionizing Prosthetics 2009
Robot: antivirus software; computer-controlled agents, or “bots”; concept of “strong AI”; lack of a physical presence; “loyalty” or “harm”; OODA (observe, orient, decide, act); robota
Robota
Robotics
Robot swarm
Robust Automatic Transcription of Speech (RATS) program
Rocket, artillery, and mortars (RAM)
Rocket equation
Rocket science; atmosphere, at altitudes; balloon technology; China and “space race”; “conventional airpower”; hypersonic gliding; Kármán line—100 kilometers altitude; lack of activity in near space; layers, military operations above sea level; near-space region of the atmosphere; orbital altitude and orbital velocity; other disciplines; Outer space, or the military region; rocket equation; SSTO launch vehicle; successful orbit; Tsiolkovsky; unmanned air vehicle (UAV) concepts; use of multiple stages
RP-1 (a highly refined kerosene)
RP-1/LOX (liquid oxygen) rocket engine technology
Rules of engagement (ROE)
Rumsfeld Commission report
Rumsfeld, Donald
Salyut program
SARS
Satellite-based early-warning system
“Satellite inspection”
Scaled Composites
Scanning tunneling microscope (STM)
Scramjet-powered vehicles
Semiconductor computer chips
“Sharkelet”
“Shutter control” regulations
Signals intelligence
“Silverbird” concept, Eugene Sanger's
Single-stage-to-orbit (SSTO) launch vehicle
“Skeets”
Skylon
Small pox (biological-warfare agent)
Small Satellites
“Smart bullet” concept
Smart dust concept
Solid-fuelled “ramrockets”
Solid rocket motors
Solid state lasers
Southern Cross II
Soviet armor superiority
Soviet R-7 ballistic missile, versions of the
Space access, ubiquitous: AEHF program; air-breathing propulsion; aircraft-like operations; concept of military transformation; Continuation of Sanctuary (Survivability); COTS; Joint Operationally Responsive Space Office; LEO; MILSTAR 3/AEHF communication satellite constellation; NavStar GPS; OPFOR; ORS; proliferation and arms racing; robust, reactive, low cost, and history; Rocket Science; 2001 Rumsfeld Commission report; Space Age; space launch; spy satellites; U.S. “shutter control” regulations
Space Age
Space-based kinetic-kill vehicle (SBKKV) concept
Space-based laser (SBL) concepts
Space launch
Space Launch Complex-6 (SLC-6)
“Space race”
Space sanctuary
Space Ship One
Space Ship Two
Space shuttle program
Space Weaponization
Space weapons development, arguments against
Spider silk; and milk
Spin-offs of military technology
The Spirit of Butts Farm or TAM-5
Sprinting
Sputnik
Spy satellites
Standoff precision weapons
Starfish Prime nuclear tests
Star Wars, SBKKV concept
State Department and Environmental Protection Agency
Stealth and precision-guided weapons
Stimulants, use of
Strategic defense initiative (SDI)
Stress
Stress Resilience in Virtual Environments (STRIVE) Project
“Strong AI” concept of
Stuxnet computer virus
Submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs)
Suborbital spaceflight
Successful orbit
“Super soldier” drug-enhanced
Supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA)
Surface-to-air missiles (SAMs)
Surveillance cameras
Sweating
Synthetic vision systems
Tactical HEL (THEL)
“Tasers”
Technological singularity
Technology-enhanced soldiers
Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC)
Terrain contour matching (TERCOM)
Therapeutic medicines
Titan ICBM
Topol-M
Total information awareness (TIA) project
Transdermal nutrient-delivery system (TDNDS)
Transistor technology
Trauma Pod
Traumatic brain injury (TBI)
Trident D-5
Tsiolkovsky
Two-digit (binary) numbering system
Two-state-to-orbit (TSTO) launch vehicle
Ubiquitous space access. See Space access, ubiquitous Unbounding the Future: The Nanotechnology Revolution
Uncontrolled violence
“Unique phenomena”
United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC)
United States Marine Corp
Unites States Air Force (USAF)
Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)
Unmanned air systems (UASs)
Unmanned Combat Air System Demonstrator (UCAS-D) program
Unmanned combat air system (UCAS)
Unmanned ground systems (UGSs)
Unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs)
Unmanned systems
Unmanned undersea vehicle (UUV)
U.S. Army Natick Soldier Research, Development & Engineering Center
U.S. Army programs
U.S. Counter Communication System (CounterCom)
U.S. Defense Nanotechnology Research and Development Program
U.S. Department of Defense Strategy for Operating in Cyberspace
U.S. DEW programs
U.S. F-35 Lightning II
U.S. intelligence community
U.S.-Iraq War
U.S. military labs, requirements
U.S. Missile Defense Agency's YAL-1A Airborne Laser Test Bed (ALTB)
U.S. Navy Skyrocket program
U.S. nuclear forces
U.S. proliferation in battlefield robotics
USS Monitor
U.S. Space Shuttle
U.S. X-43A
U.S. X-43A 21
U.S. XM25 magazine-fed grenade launcher
Van der Waals force
Vigilant Eagle system
Virtual Private Network (VPN) software
Von Neumann machines
Vulnerability to electronic attacks
Warfighter
Warfighter physiological status monitoring (WPSM) system
The War of the Worlds
Warzones
Weapons, effectiveness of
Weapons of mass destruction (WMDs)
Wearable robot
Web cameras
WiMAX Internet access
Wired, online magazine
World War I
World War II
X-15 rocket plane program
X-20 Dynasoar program
X-30 National Aerospace Plane (NASP)
X-37
X-37B mission objectives
X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV) program
X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System Demonstrator (UCAS-D) program
XOS series by Sarcos/Raytheon
YAL-1A program
ZEUS-HLONS (HMMWV laser ordnance neutralization system)
ZM-87 Portable Laser Disturber
Zombie computers