Shuttle Radar Topography Mission
SRTM is an ambitious project to topographically map about 80% of the Earth's land surface. It use two radar systems operating from the space shuttle and will collect in one mission data that conventionally would have taken decades. It will provide 30m resolution data.

News story on AUVs
Recent news story on AUV quotes officials from NSWC - Panama City.

Helmet based camera sends images using wavelet compression
ONR funded early wavelet compression research. This invention, a helmet mounted video camera that sends images and allows the user to collaborate with a headquarters, could be adapted for Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief missions as well as warfighting missions. Submitted by nsapc3f.

Sandia Announces Improved SAR
The new radar boasts higher resolution and a lighter weight. It has resulted in a technology transfr to UAV maker, General Atomics. Submitted by nsapc3f

ANTI-SNIFF Tech paper
l0pht Heavy Industries, an anti-hacker group, have announced a new product which will enable detection of "sniffers" on your computer network.

Microsoft declares 2000 as the year of E-Books
Noting that paper will be gone in 25 years, MS honcho describes plans to give away "e-books" and projects that eletronic publishing in this fashion will surpass print by 2001.