$60 Million in Pax Runway Repairs Begun
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Major repairs continue on the 9,700-foot Runway 14-32 at NAS Pax River, reports The Tester. Ongoing is the $22 million first of three phases totally more than $60 million in runway repairs. This first phase is due to be completed in October.
After years of debate, the Navy’s unmanned aircraft debate has come down to this, Navy is sticking with manned stealth and surveillance and going with a carrier based tanker-drone to refuel its fighter jets, Breaking Defense reports on the Pentagon’s 2017 Budget.
Navy pilots practice touch-and-go field carrier landings on a NASA runway at Wallops, reports DelmarvaNow.
RT Ruptly news picks up on reports the US may get 500 F-35s jets without combat mission tests and reports on the status of the F-35 between video of the JSF maneuvers as well as Russia’s Sukhoi T-50.
US factories show signs of stabilization after manufacturing activity contracted in January for a fourth straight month, reports Reuters.com.
More than 100,000 allied bomber crews were shot down over Europe in WWII, this highly detailed, classified film helped train replacement crews to survive, reports WeAreTheMighty.
VP Joe Biden leads a “Cancer Moonshot” to better coordinate cancer lab research and clinical data, reports Fortune.com.
FlightGlobal reports criticism of a proposed “open” category the European Aviation Safety Agency has suggested for UAVs weighing less than 55 poumds to operate with minimal rules.
BAE Systems Technology Solutions and Services, Rockville, Maryland, is being awarded $21,491,950 for modification P00148 to a previously awarded cost-plus-fixed-fee, cost reimbursable contract (N00421-09-C-0102) to exercise an option for rapid design, development, customization, fabrication, integration, test and evaluation, installation, certification, maintenance and upgrade, logistic, and life cycle support of new and/or existing communication-electronic platforms, equipment/systems and subsystems. These efforts are in support of the Naval Warfare Center Aircraft Division’s Special Communications Mission Solutions Division. Work will be performed in St. Inigoes, Maryland (50 percent); Chesapeake, Virginia (30 percent); Lexington Park, Maryland (15 percent); and Fayetteville, North Carolina (5 percent); and is expected to be completed in July 2016. Fiscal 2016 working capital funds (Navy); and Fiscal 2016 aircraft procurement (Navy) funds in the amount of $1,237,376 are being obligated on this 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.
