Pilot Says F-35 Can’t Dogfight

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No dogfights for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, reports Real Clear Defense from a text pilot’s brief.

More than 30 helicopters from seven countries are taking part in Italian Blade 2015, The Aviationist has photos.

DoD meets its goal of contracts awarded to small businesses run by disabled veteran, reports Military.com.

DoD tests a commercial communications satellite system with 300 times current bandwidth; the technology was demonstrated aboard LCS  Fort Worth in the Pacific, and  at MacDill Air Force Base, headquarters of Special Operations Command, reports Breaking Defense.

It would take 77 Aegis cruisers and destroyers out of a total fleet of 84 to meet requests for ballistic missile defense, but Navy budget constraints instead plan taking half of its 22 aging Aegis cruises out of service for for modernization, and five will lose their missile launching capabilities, reports Breaking Defense.

US and Cuba to announce the opening of embassies in each other’s capitals, reports USA Today.

J.F. Taylor, Inc., Lexington Park, Maryland, is being awarded a $32,559,234 cost-plus-fixed-fee, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for mission essential engineering services in support of Identification Friend or Foe equipment, systems and subsystems, and advanced technologies development for the U.S. Navy and the governments of Taiwan, Australia, Norway, Saudi Arabia, and Poland. Work will be performed in Lexington Park, Maryland and is expected to be completed in June 2020. No funding will be obligated at time of award. Funds will be obligated on individual delivery orders as they are issued. This contract was competitively procured via electronic announcement; two offers were received. This contract combines purchase for the U.S. Navy ($32,233,644; 99 percent) and the governments of Taiwan ($65,118; 0.2 percent); Australia ($65,118; 0.2 percent); Norway ($65,118; 0.2 percent); Saudi Arabia ($65,118; 0.2 percent); and Poland ($65,118; 0.2 percent). The Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division, Patuxent River, Maryland is the contracting activity (N00421-15-D-0005.)

 

ECS Federal, Inc.*, Fairfax, Virginia, is being awarded an $8,427,577 modification to a previously awarded cost-plus-fixed-fee contract (N00421-14-F-0060) to exercise an option to deliver enterprise-wide information technology services to Naval Air Systems Command and its respective customers. This effort shall provide help desk services, desk-side services, and organizational messaging and communications. Work will be performed in Patuxent River, Maryland (99.7 percent) and San Diego, California (.3 percent), and is expected to be completed in June 2016. Fiscal 2015 working capital funds (Navy) in the amount of $2,143,785 will be obligated at time of award, none of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division, Patuxent River, Maryland, is the contracting activity