Bio-inspired innovation and national security
By: edited by Robert E. Armstrong ... [et al.].
Contributors: Armstrong, Robert E., 1948-2008.; National Defense University. Center for Technology and National Security Policy.
Publisher: Published for the Center for Technology and National Security Policy by National Defense University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Subjects: Bionics; Biomimetics; Biological warfare; Bioterrorism -- Prevention; National security -- United States; Biological Warfare -- trends -- United States; Biological Warfare -- prevention & control -- United States; Civil Defense -- methods -- United States; Public Policy -- United States; Security Measures -- trends -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Biotech impact on the warfighter / Thomas X. Hammes; title: New biological advances and military medical ethics / Edmund G. Howe; title: The life sciences, security, and the challenge of biological weapons : an overview / Michael Moodie; title: Biological warfare : a warfighting perspective / John B. Alexander; title: Abiotic sensing / James J. Valdes ... [et al.]; title: Biosensors and bioelectronics / Dimitra Stratis-Cullum and James Sumner; title: Bioenzymes and defense / Adrienne Huston; title: Bioenergy : renewable liquid fuels / Michael Ladisch; title: Bio-inspired materials and operations / Erica R. Valdes; title: Learning unmanned vehicle control from echolocating bats / Eric W. Justh; title: Neurorobotics : neurobiologically inspired robots / Jeffrey Krichmar; title: Biomimetic, sociable robots for human-robot interaction / Eleanore Edson, Judith Lytle, and Thomas McKenna; title: Biomechanically inspired robotics / John Socha and Justin Grubich; title: Biological automata and national security / Yaakov Benenson; title: Enhanced human performance and metabolic engineering / James J. Valdes and James P. Chambers; title: Functional neuroimaging in defense policy / Richard Genik III, Christopher Green, and David C. Peters II; title: Forging stress resilience : building psychological hardiness / Paul Bartone; title: Neuroplasticity, mind fitness, and military effectiveness / Elizabeth Stanley; title: Bio-inspired network science / João Hespanha and Francis Doyle III; title: Ethics and the biologized battlefield : moral issues in 21st-century conflict / William D. Casebeer; title: Legal issues affecting biotechnology / Joseph Rutigliano, Jr.; title: Building the nonmedical bio workforce for 2040 / Timothy Coffey and Joel Schnur.