Congress Is Heading Over the Fiscal Cliff

Posted by on December 31, 2012 · Leave a Comment 

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A Senate deal to avoid automatic defense cuts falls through, and now sequestration appears inevitable.

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Unmanned Strike Drone Begins Testing on USS Truman

Posted by on December 11, 2012 · Leave a Comment 

X-47B on the USS Truman

The Navy begins testing how the X-47B UCAS-D will integrate with aircraft carriers.

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Pentagon Holds Up JSF Testing Plan

Posted by on August 29, 2012 · Leave a Comment 

F-35C JSF Pax hangar

The head of Operational Test and Evaluation wants the JSF program to determine how it is going to test the aircraft’s electronics.

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Movement to Stop Sequestration Stalls

Posted by on July 26, 2012 · Leave a Comment 

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Some industry leaders start talking about new opportunities, rather than job losses.

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Lockheed Machinists Officially End Strike

Posted by on June 29, 2012 · Leave a Comment 

F-35C JSF night takeoff

Union votes to go back to work on the Joint Strike Fighter Monday.

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Senate, White House Square Off over Sequestration

Posted by on June 22, 2012 · Leave a Comment 

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Senate wants details on how automatic defense cuts will affect DoD. HASC chair thinks Pentagon is secretly planning for it.

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Choppers to Get Upgraded

Posted by on January 4, 2012 · Leave a Comment 

Chief Aviation Boatswain's Mate (Handling) Otis McKinney monitors logistics specialists from supply department aboard the aircraft carrier USS George Washington (CVN 73), as they secure a pole pendant to an MH-60R helicopter, assigned to the Scorpions of Helicopter Anti-Submarine Squadron Light (HSL) 49 on the flight deck during a vertical replenishment with USNS Pecos (T-AO 197). (U.S. Navy Photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Marcos Vazquez)

NAVAIR solicits contracts for H-60s and V-22s.

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NAVAIR Upgrades the V-22

Posted by on December 30, 2011 · Leave a Comment 

A U.S. Marine Corps MV-22 Osprey lifts off from Naval Air Station Patuxent River, during a successful biofuel test flight. The tilt-rotor aircraft flew at altitudes of up to 25,000 feet on a 50-50 blend of camelina based biofuel and standard petroleum based JP-5 fuel. (U.S. Navy photo)

Contracts solicited and awarded for the tilt-rotor aircraft.

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