JSF Gun on Schedule says DoD
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DoD cites “misreporting” surrounding stories about delays in software development needed to enable the gun in the F-35. The JSF gun will be ready, on schedule, in 2017, reports Defense News. Testing begins this year.
BRAC is not coming to a town year you, but a version of BRAC will hit Europe across the next several years as the Pentagon seeks economies and efficiencies by returning 15 sites to their host countries. The consolidation’s ultimate job loss is predictedto reach 2,600 in host nations and 1,200 US personnel, with more than 6,000 jobs relocating, reports International Business Times.
The Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies finds satellite imagery suggesting a North Korean submarine is being equipped to fire missiles, reports CBS News.
Strip out old procurement laws before considering new procurement laws, that’s the way to fix the procurement system, DoD officials are telling Congress, and Congress may be receptive, reports Breaking Defense.
The Voice of Agriculture lauds technology coming to farms and farmers, but includes warnings that use of unmanned aerial vehicles is still largely illegal. Nevertheless, say members of the Unmanned Safety Institute, agriculture is expected to be among the first industries to fully adopt drone technology. So far unmanned aerial surveillance has not fared so well at border patrol. NextGov reports, the UAVs patrolling the US borders, aren’t proving cost effective. But there are here to stay, suggests the German “Behemoth: A Journal on Civilisation,” which is calling for papers on “Drones at the intersection of military and civilian,” reports The Humanities and Social Sciences Net Online. Topic proposals of 500 words are due Jan. 15 to Susanne Krasmann [email protected] and Jutta Weber [email protected].
Navy pilot Brett Pierson, 48, is “thrilled” to return to the air as the Navy’s Atlantic Test Wing commander. He will lead developmental flight tests on the East Coast, reports Nicole Clark of SoMdNews.com.
Retired VADM David Architzel is scheduled to appear in Grand Rapids, MI, Jan. 15 to speak at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum, as part of the museum’s current exhibit, “Taking the Seas: The Rise of the American Aircraft Carrier,” reports MLive.com.
Reuters’ has some nice photos of a good launch made Saturday by Space Exploration Technologies‘ SpaceX’s rocket, but the landing back home wasn’t pretty, reports Reuters. Also successful was the rocket’s cargo delivery to the International Space Station. The company’s goal is to develop a retrievable rocket to carry cargo to the ISS.
Meanwhile air travel on the home planet will be undergoing another change. Looks like baggage handlers will soon be walking through metal detectors on their way to the job or maybe searched, according to The New York Times report on the recent discovery of a gun smuggling ring out of Atlanta to New York.
A new antibiotic potentially so powerful and unique it may even fight cancers is found in dirt, reports the New York Times.
