Posted by Java Joe on November 13, 2013 · Leave a Comment
Three very different 2014 DOD funding scenarios are still being considered a month and a half into the fiscal year.
Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags ballistic missile, Blackberry, budget, CACI, China, Congress, cybersecurity, DHS, drone, FY14, Guam, JL-2, Lockheed, Lockheed Martin, NSA, nuclear, Pentagon, Robert Hale, sequestration, unmanned aircraft, USS Theodore Roosevelt, X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System
Posted by Java Joe on November 6, 2013 · Leave a Comment
If the Pentagon is to survive sequestration, Defense Dept. and Congress must work together: SecDef Chuck Hagel.
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Posted by Publisher on October 23, 2013 · 1 Comment
Large defense firms fared better than small firms in the first round of sequestration and small companies are urged to raise their visibility as analysts predict budget contractions will continue.
Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags Amnesty International, cybersecurity guidelines to industry, drone strike, General Dynamics, ground sensors to UAV, Human Rights Watch, John Kerry, Lockheed profits, NSA, Saudi Arabia, third quarter profits
Posted by Publisher on October 10, 2013 · Leave a Comment
Movement in the Republican Party and from the White House seeks ways to get the federal budget on track and remove Obamacare from the battle.
Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags Affordable Care Act, amazon, Barack Obama, Bill Young, CIA cloud, death benefit funding, furlough, GOP, government shutdown, ibm, Navy birthday, NSA, Obamacare, Tea Party
Posted by Publisher on September 12, 2013 · 1 Comment
As the victims of 9/11 were remembered, Kerry prepared to meet with Russia about removing Syria’s chemical weapons without a military strike while Wall Street surges on Tomahawk missile stock.
Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags autonomous aerial refueling, Barrack Obama, Jo Ann Rooney, John Kerry, Keith Alexander, limited strike, NAVAIR, NSA, P-8 Poseidon, Russia, Russian, second-hand aircraft, Sikorsky, Syria, UCAS-D, Wall Street
Posted by Publisher on August 22, 2013 · Leave a Comment
Manning gets 35 years, federal court limits job rights of employees in sensitive positions and DoD hires a cyber chief to work with contractor cyber-security breaches.
Posted by Publisher on July 31, 2013 · Leave a Comment
Waiting for awards and RFPs during sequestration is like the last month of pregnancy; delivery is coming, but it doesn’t feel soon enough. No waiting for a Senate subcommittee, which ignored sequestration when marking up the FY14 DoD budget.
Posted by Publisher on July 25, 2013 · Leave a Comment
While the large contractors are holding their own, the DoD budget struggles across the floor of the House.
Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags Aberdeen Proving Ground, Afghanistan, airship radar system, civilian furlough, F-16 Egypt, federal furlough, military pay raise, National Capital Region, Northern Command, NSA, Q2 defense earnings, Raytheon AIM-9X missile, RFP, Sidewinder
Posted by Steny Hoyer on July 24, 2013 · Leave a Comment
Amendments on NSA email surveillance, arms to Syria and the US role in Egypt are among those approved for consideration as the House tackles the DoD budget bill.
Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags Afghanistan, Barrack Obama, Democrats, DoD budget, emailsurveillance, Gen. Martin Dempsey, Joint Chiefs of Staff, NAS:Pax River, NSA, Russian helicopters, second quarter earnings, Steny Hoyer, Syrian rebels, UCAS-D
Posted by Publisher on July 18, 2013 · Leave a Comment
Gen. Martin Dempsey and Adm. James Winnefeld will field global questions from the Senate Armed Services Committee, but confirmation of second terms for the Chair and Vice-Chair of the Joint Chiefs is expected.
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