Posted by Publisher on June 17, 2013 · Leave a Comment
Sexual assault, procurement, the JSF’s future and more details of DoD’s out years emerge as Senate finalizes its defense authorization bill this week.
Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags China, CIA, CIA arm Syria, Defense Authorization Bill, Google Project Loon, JSF, look and shoot helmets, nontheistic chaplains, NSA PRISM, P-8A Poseidon, Pakistan, repository for brain tissue, senate defense bill, stealth bombers, Syria rebels, Taiwan, traumatic brain injuries, UN
Posted by Publisher on June 10, 2013 · Leave a Comment
Despite reductions elsewhere, a month of achievements and cost savings is good news for the JSF. It’s more of a mixed bag for cyber-security.
Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags air to air missile launch, CIA, cyber-attack, cyber-defense, cybersecurity, cyberwarfare, defense budget bill, Facebook, furloughs, hagel, HASC, Helms, Jim Sanborn, JSF, JSF air missile launch, Kryptos Sculpture Code, Lockheed Martin, Mark Zuckerman, McCaskill, PRISM, Susan Helms
Posted by Publisher on June 6, 2013 · Leave a Comment
Despite dire fiscal reports from experts, House defense committee members remain opposed to BRAC, workforce reductions and pay caps for troops.
Posted by Publisher on June 4, 2013 · Leave a Comment
House Armed Services Committee budget mark-ups reject base closures despite think tanks’ advice. DoD budget shortfalls cannot be covered from UCAS funds.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags acquistion research symposium, Adm. Dunaway, close bases, defense bill, HASC, Jacques Ganslwer, JSF, LinkedIn, Southern Maryland Sailing Foundation, UCAS, VA backlog, VA mental health
Posted by Publisher on May 30, 2013 · Leave a Comment
With only days before the services must report their IOC for the Joint Strike Fighter, the Navy’s date is still under wraps. Also, a primer on war-fighting bandwidth satellites and a NOAA satellite conks out, again.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags Applied Technology Division, ATD, Carl Levin, Chinese president, CSC, deter cyber theft bill, drone killed Taliban commander, F-35, GOES East, GOES-13, GOES-14, IOC, JSF, Obama, PAE, SAR, Senator Levin, Wasp, Wasp modifications, WGS
Posted by Publisher on May 28, 2013 · Leave a Comment
President Obama speaks at USNA graduation and Senator McCain visits Syrian rebels.
Posted by Publisher on May 21, 2013 · Leave a Comment
JSF continues a week of successes at Pax, but the week ahead for Defense Authorization Bills look less sunny.
Posted by Publisher on May 16, 2013 · Leave a Comment
Investing in smarter drones could determine the future, which includes carriers no matter what, say Navy officials.
Posted by Editor on May 13, 2013 · Leave a Comment
As the JSF helmet gets night-vision, the White House and Congress argue over who shall control the drone program.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags army procurement, Australia, Boening, China, China drone, Chuck Hagel, deny use of space, digital manufacturing, drone, grand budget deal, Hornet, iran drone, Iran's stealth drone, iranian drone, John Kerry, JSF, Kendall, lightweight metals manufacturing, night-vision helmet, open data standards, supply chain security, teaming agreements
F-35, other programs facing manufacturing issues.