Feds seek help applying nanotech to defense - AZ Central, USA
Federal agencies and large defense contractors are looking for small businesses with good ideas and the technical expertise to pull them off. The goal is to solve homeland security problems and other issues ranging from defense to public health and infrastructure safety.
Some of the Department of Homeland Security's investments have come in nanotechnology. The technology is being applied to next-generation X-rays and to ways to neutralize chemicals and detect liquid explosives. Nanoparticles are even being tested in high-performance concrete to make infrastructure such as dams less vulnerable, he said.

Why don't we have a nanotechnology Apollo Program for clean energy? - NanoWerk, USA
There is no doubt that nanotechnologies could provide the solutions to our energy problems, not today, and not tomorrow, but with a massive, coordinated and international effort a 10-20 year timeframe seems not unrealistic.
The leading dozen or so nanotechnology nations should get together and commit to a concerted and massively funded 10-year program to develop commercially viable, clean energy solutions based on nanotechnology.
Not only would this provide a way out of the energy and climate crisis, it would finally provide the much-needed, large-scale commercialization of nanotechnologies that will lead to entirely new industries. The funding can be found, the technology can be developed, all it takes is political will...

Japanese Ministry of Health calls on local governments/industry to take preventive measures for nanomaterials safety - NanoWerk, USA
The Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare has issued a notice to prefectural governments and nanotechnology industry requesting them to take preventive measures with respect to exposure to nanomaterials. The notice was issued targeting those involved in the manufacture, repair, and inspection of nanomaterials. Manufacturers are instructed that any apparatus should have a sealed structure or that a local exhaust system should be installed. For operating processes other than manufacturing, the processes should be carried out under either sealed , unattended or automated conditions, or a local exhaust system should be installed. The notice briefly touches on management of work and protective equipment.