Posted by Java Joe on October 3, 2017 · Leave a Comment
A Coast Guard report says the primary cause of the 2015 sinking of the cargo ship El Faro, which killed all 33 aboard, was the captain underestimating the strength of a hurricane and overestimating the ship’s strength.
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Category Morning Coffee · Tags AIS, Automatic Identification System, Capt. Michael Davidson, Chengdu J-20 stealth fighter, David Shulkin, El Faro, Mark Esper, MV-22B Osprey, NAS Pax community service, P-8 Poseidon, rex tillerson
Posted by Java Joe on October 2, 2017 · Leave a Comment
Engineers and resource managers across the metro DC region weigh in with on-the-ground experience, decades of data, and well-established models. The forecast is bleak.
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Posted by Java Joe on September 28, 2017 · Leave a Comment
The hospital ship Comfort will deploy along with increased federal and military aid for Puerto Rico,
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Category Morning Coffee · Tags Bob Corker, Boeing, Bombadier, Comfort, Dunford, F-35A, GBU-49, Jones Act, Mueller, puerto rico, Robert Mueller, Tehran
Posted by Java Joe on September 26, 2017 · Leave a Comment
The US is losing ground in the technology war. China is investing in artificial intelligence and information-aimed equipment and capabilities the US is “presently unable to match,” says the Marine Corps’ assistant director of intelligence.
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Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags Gov. Larry Hogan, Hack the Air Force, Jack Cable, Military Star credit card, NASA, Pyotr Levashov, Russian hacker, Steny Hoyer, Wallops Island, will hurd
Posted by Java Joe on September 25, 2017 · Leave a Comment
faced with a set of F-35s too limited to fly in combat, weighing whether to upgrade or buy new ones. Production of the fighter jets is projected to reach 130 per year by the end of 2018.
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Category Morning Coffee · Tags baseload power, coal, cyberattacks, DoD IT, Duncan Hunter, Fort Bragg, IT service contracts, JSF, mattis, NDAA, North Korea, SEC, SEChacking, space war
Posted by Java Joe on September 18, 2017 · Leave a Comment
Active-duty service members are among the 143 million Americans affected by the Equifax data breach and might be more vulnerable to its potential fallout.
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Category Morning Coffee · Tags Capt. Christopher Cox, data breach, DaVita, DefSec James Mattis, F-16 fighter jets, F/A-18, Lockheed Martin, military recruits, North Korea, UAS quadcopters, USS Tripoli
Posted by Java Joe on September 14, 2017 · Leave a Comment
A bipartisan rejection of Sen. Rand Paul’s effort to repeal the war authorizations leading to US entry into Afghanistan and Iraq returns the Senate to consideration of other provisions in the defense authorization bill.
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Category Morning Coffee · Tags Defense Authorization Bill, Hurricane Irma, Lockheed Martin, mational Archives, mattis, navy shipyards, North Korea, Outrider, Rand Paul, Red Hat unit, veterans
Posted by Java Joe on September 13, 2017 · Leave a Comment
The chief of the Federal Aviation Administration said, despite some problems during Hurricane Harvey in Houston, drone usage in responses to both Harvey and Irma would prove an evolutionary landmark for unmanned aviation.
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Category Morning Coffee · Tags Afghanistan, Army Corps of Engineers, BRAC, David Kapaun, drones, FAA, FGS LLC, hurricanes, mattis, Michael Huerta, national archives, Sergei Lavrov, Super Hercules, USS Fitzgerald, USS McCain
Posted by Java Joe on September 12, 2017 · Leave a Comment
Members of the military are being kept busy with relief operation efforts following Hurricanes Irma and Harvey.
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Category Morning Coffee · Tags artificial intelligence, Dahlgren, Hurricane Irma, hurricane relief, North Korea sanctions, precision weapons, Robert Behler, SMART Scholars, Thomas Modly, USS Fitzgerald, USS John S. McCain