March 29, 2024

Marine & Navy Officer Fired Guns in Chattanooga

Jimi Lanham
Photo by Jimi Lanham and licensed through Creative Commons

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Although DoD policy prohibits carrying firearms on military installations, a Navy officer and a Marine fired their sidearms, attempting to subdue the gunman who killed five service members last week in Chattanooga, TN, reports Navy Times.

Pentagon confirms an Army drone crashed July 16 in Iraq after Twitter photos post, reports The Hill, and sources Reuters with the location of the UAV crash about 280 miles southeast of Baghdad.

The Marines finished an operational readiness inspection of its first F-35B squadron, the last hurdle before operational capability can be assessed, reports Aviation Week.

The Defense Intelligence Agency awards up to $6 billion in contracts to 25 large and 25 small IT businesses, C4ISR has the list of the winners.

Aviation Week says, with its Sikorsky buy, Lockheed went all in to government contracting and is even abandoning previous diversity investments. Lockheed’s rotary wing history is lengthy, and Aviation Week covers it in photos.

VA Secretary Bob McDonald tells the VFW Congress is hurting veterans with budget cuts and disincentives to join the department, reports Military.com. President Obama also used a speech to the VFW to vent his frustration with the defense budget bills, reports Military Times.

Nearly a quarter-million positions in the Army, Air Force, Navy and Marines plus 25,700 positions in the US Special Operations Command, remain closed to women, reports Stars and Stripes.

Rep. Randy Forbes, R-VA, chair of the House Armed Services Committee’s seapower and projection forces subcommittee, says the US is “tiptoeing around” China instead of planning how to deal with the rival nation, reports Defense News.

IBM, using computers to forecast weather, plan to help utilities and grid operators better predict the amount of power output of solar and wind installations, reports Technology Review.

Rockwell Collins Inc., Cedar Rapids, Iowa, is being awarded $8,131,791 for cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order 0006 against a previously issued basic ordering agreement (N00019-14-G-0021) for engineering integration efforts on the Digital Red Switch System (DRSS) in support of one E-6B Mercury aircraft. This DRSS modification will provide enhanced distribution of audio from mission radios and includes efforts in the systems integration lab. Work will be performed in Richardson, Texas (80 percent); and Patuxent River, Maryland (20 percent), and is expected to be completed in November 2017. Fiscal 2014 aircraft procurement (Navy) funds in the amount $6,491,321 will be obligated at time of award, none of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Maryland, is the contracting activity.

 

 

 

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