Posted by Java Joe on May 19, 2025 · Leave a Comment
President Donald Trump wants the US military to have a new twin-engine F-35. He wants to call it the F-55. It will have two engines and a super upgrade on the F-35. Some analysts say it will be a highly challenging engineering endeavor.
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Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags AI, AMVETS, artificial intelligence, Boeing, Boeing’s E-7 Wedgetail, F-55, F/A-XX, Helsing, James Kilby, military parade, National Guard, Naval Aviation News, Northrop Grumman, Qatar, Security Force Assistance Brigades, Super F-22, underwater drones, veteran disability claims
Posted by Java Joe on May 15, 2025 · Leave a Comment
As the Trump administration considered ending the US missile strikes in the Red Sea, Houthi rebels in Yemen fired a missile so close to a US F-35 the pilot had to take evasive action, a potential “absolute disaster” for the costly fighter jet.
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Posted by Java Joe on May 12, 2025 · Leave a Comment
US military academies have been ordered to end consideration of race, gender, and ethnicity in their admissions processes. Acceptance will be based “exclusively on merit.”
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Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags Anthony Woods, Army fitness test, Canada, CH-53 Super Stallion crash, Defense Workforce Integration Act, DefSec Pete Hegseth, Denmark, DoD educator unions, Gaza, military academies, Saildrone, transgender in military, Vatican
Posted by Java Joe on May 8, 2025 · Leave a Comment
The USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier has lost yet another F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jet into the Red Sea, the second fighter jet lost from the carrier in just over a week.
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Posted by Java Joe on May 5, 2025 · Leave a Comment
DefSec Pete Hegseth wants a new name for the Defense Department. He wants to call it the War Department. And President Donald Trump wants to rename the federal holiday Veterans Day “Victory Day for World War I Day” and create another holiday to commemorate World War II on May 8.
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Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags ArmySec Dan Driscoll, Defense Innovation Unit, DefSec Pete Hegseth, DZYNE, LT GEN Alexus Grynkewich, Mike Waltz, military sexual assault, MyNavyHR, NavSec John Phelan, Operation Rough Rider, VADM Brad Cooper, veterans day, War Department
Posted by Java Joe on May 1, 2025 · Leave a Comment
The USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier lost another F/A-18E Super Hornet fighter jet when it fell overboard on Monday along with a tow tractor. In December, a Navy cruiser downed another F/A-18 fighter jet from the Truman in a friendly fire incident.
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Posted by Java Joe on April 28, 2025 · Leave a Comment
The Pentagon said it will expand the Defense Innovation Unit across the US to help it connect with a broader swath of technology companies. Three new DIU hubs will be located in Kentucky, Minnesota, and Montana.
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Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags Ball Aerospace, Defense Innovation Unit, DefSec Pete Hegseth, DIU, Littoral Combat Ship, National Guard, Northrop Grumman, Reaper drones, Rob Holland, tariffs, Ukraine, USS Minneapolis-Saint Paul, USS Nimitz
Posted by Java Joe on April 24, 2025 · Leave a Comment
President Donald Trump has extended his hiring freeze of all federal civilian positions until July 15. He signed an executive order on Jan. 20 to freeze the hiring civilian employees for vacancies or new positions in all federal agencies. The freeze was initially set to end April 20.
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Posted by Java Joe on April 21, 2025 · Leave a Comment
ADM Daryl Caudle, commander of the US Navy’s Fleet Forces Command, has emerged as the front-runner for the service’s chief of naval operations position.
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Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags ADM Daryl Caudle, ADM Samuel Paparo, Arctic strategy, Defense Digital Service, Defense Health Agency, DefSec Pete Hegseth, DEI purge, Fort Benning, Secure Families Initiative, tariffs, Turkey F-35, US Indo-Pacific Command, US Mexico Border, voting
Posted by Java Joe on April 17, 2025 · Leave a Comment
Maryland lawmakers are urging the Trump administration to reconsider cuts at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center that could slash US space programs in half.
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