Posted by Java Joe on March 13, 2023 · Leave a Comment
Lockheed Martin has announced the layoff of 176 workers at its Sikorsky division supporting the heavy lift helicopter program at NAS Patuxent River. The layoffs are effective April 27.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags defense budget, F-35, Fort Meade, Leidos, N2/N6, offshore wind energy, POWER Act, presidential helicopter, Ukraine, US Space Force, VADM Karl Thomas
Posted by Java Joe on February 24, 2020 · Leave a Comment
Sikorsky receives a contract to deliver six new VH-92A presidential helicopters.
Posted by Java Joe on June 13, 2019 · Leave a Comment
The F-35 fighter jet continues to be marred by flaws and glitches.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags ADM Bill Moran, Army tours of duty, Bob Burke, F-35, KBRwyle Technology Solutions, KC-130J crash, Lisa Hershman, Patrick Shanahan, presidential helicopter, reenlistment bonuses, Russian Su-27, Sikorsky, spy planes
Posted by Java Joe on May 2, 2018 · Leave a Comment
You won’t be commanding a ship, the Navy wants to recruit the “scientific or technical” skills needed to wage cyber war and needs to bring in those software engineers at a captain’s grade. A six-figure salary, commensurate with civilian workers, is necessary to bring the skill needed into the military.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags captain, David Quinn, EFT, F-35, Marine Corps Sgt. David Quinn, Navy's Expeditionary Fast Transport, pay grade, presidential helicopter, sexual assault, software engineer, Sprint, steel tariffs, T-Mobile, Tarawa, tariff, VA, World War II, WWII
Posted by Java Joe on April 12, 2018 · Leave a Comment
Sikorsky is four years into its $1.2 billion contract to replace the president’s helicopter fleet with its VH-92A in 2019.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags drones, F-35, Lockheed Martin, Marine One, poison gas, presidential helicopter, Sea-Air-Space, Syria, VA, Veterans Administration, VH-92A
Posted by Java Joe on August 1, 2016 · Leave a Comment
With the US Marine Corps purchasing the bulk of the Navy’s planned fleet of 680 Lockheed Martin’s F-35 Joint Strike Fighters, the USMC will likely form the dominant component of naval tactical aviation in the coming years.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags F-35 joint strike fighter, F-35A, F-35B GAU-22 gun pod, Gyrocam sensor system, Joint Operating Environment 2035, Lockheed Martin Spider bot, maritime patrol aircraft, P-8A Poseidon, presidential helicopter, VH-92A, VOSS I
Posted by Publisher on May 6, 2015 · Leave a Comment
Last month’s publishing of Amazon’s patent reveals how the company expects to deliver packages via drone.
Posted by Publisher on April 20, 2015 · 1 Comment
“Swarmbots” work like termites, and both the Navy and Marines are touted them as the next frontier of unmanned aircraft
Posted by Editor on May 14, 2013 · Leave a Comment
In Washington: a Stimson Center report finds DoD savings, the Navy maintains it can make budget cuts without furloughs and a bill seeks more congressional notification of lethal or capture operations.
Posted by Editor on December 17, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Northrop Grumman releases video of an X-47B catapult shot at Pax River.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags autonomous, drones, F-35, Fiscal cliff, Joint Strike Fighter, JSF, NAVAIR, Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Northrop Grumman, Pax River, presidential helicopter, sequestration, St. Mary's County, UAV, UCAS-D, UCLASS, X-47B