March 28, 2024

Drone Boon @ Wallops Island

Wallops Island

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Given its NASA affiliation and the Atlantic Ocean for crash landings, NASA predicts drone traffic could increase 10-fold at Wallops Island, reports DelmarvaNow. Amazon founder and owner of the Washington Post, Jeff Bezo, joins a few other billionaires in the race to manufacture rockets, reports Business Today, with plans to launch from a refurbished launch pad at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.

The Army seeks unmanned vehicle retrieval of casualties from the battlefield, according to Army.mil.

The USS Gerald Ford aircraft carrier continues to slip its schedule, a not unanticipated result of new, undeveloped technologies, reports Navy Times.

Replaced in 2008 by the Boeing T-45 Goshawk, three T-2Cs served as chase aircraft at Pax River until last week when the Navy’s last T-2 Buckeye jet made its final flight at PAX, reports Seapower.

The Senate overcame a procedural hurdle to pass a funding resolution to keep the federal government open until Dec. 11, reports The Hill, with Republicans continuing to bicker among themselves about the wisdom of the continuing resolution.  The Brookings Institute reports on a nonpartisan publication out of the Partnership for Public Service called “Government Disservice” detailing how a government shutdown hurts the executive branch resulting in declining productivity, innovation and morale.

The Diplomat queries if China’s submarine sale to Pakistan suggests Chinese ambitions in the Indian Ocean.

Terrorists use social media, so the US intelligence community is working on ways to work it smarter, reports Defense Systems.

Marine archaeologists recover more than 50 fine artifacts from the ancient Greek shipwreck Antikythera shipwreck fishermen first discovered it in 1900, reports The Christian Science Monitor.

Contracts:
Northrop Grumman, Annapolis, Maryland, is being awarded $18,037,106 for a delivery order under a previously awarded contract (N61331-15-D-0011) for the procurement of field upgradeable kits and fleet support for conversion of the AN/AQS-24A systems to the AN/AQS-24B configuration in support of the Airborne Mine Countermeasure Systems program.  Work will be performed in Annapolis, Maryland, and is expected to be completed by April 2017.  Fiscal 2015 other procurement (Navy) funding in the amount of $18,037,106 will be obligated at time of award and will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Surface Warfare Center-Panama City Division, Panama City, Florida, is the contracting activity.
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