Posted by Java Joe on January 8, 2014 · Leave a Comment
A full fiscal 2014 Pentagon spending bill will be included in a compromise measure that must pass before next Tuesday night to avert a gov. shutdown.
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Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags BAE, Boeing, DoD budget, drone, F-35, F/A-18 Super Hornet, Global Hawk, K-MAX, Lockheed Martin, MQ-1, MV-22 Osprey, Northrop Grumman, Pentagon, Predator, same sex spouse, Tricare, UCLASS
Posted by Publisher on January 7, 2014 · Leave a Comment
Part of the Navy’s strong budget position is forward thinking cyber capabilities, cyberwarfare is seen as the nation’s most serious threat by national security leaders.
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Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags BAE, cyberwarfare, Defense News poll, Iraq, John Kerry, Jonathan Greenert, Navy, Pacific pivot, Panavia Tornado GR4, Russian Navy, South China Sea, UK Royal Air Force, us cape ray
House defense panel member says his committee has cut another $25 billion from defense in the budget bill and that the contractor workforce was likely to take the brunt of this additional hit.
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Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags Chinese magnets, Dyke Weatherington, F-35, Frank Kendall, National Defense Authorization Act, NDAA, nuclear arsenal, omnibus appropriations bill, Patuxent Partnership, Southern Maryland Sailing Foundation, UCLASS, Unmanned systems Integrated Roadmap
Posted by Java Joe on January 2, 2014 · Leave a Comment
Federal employees will receive their first automatic pay raise in more than three years, 1 percent beginning Jan. 1.
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Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags BQM-74, budget, COLA, cybersecurity, drone, drug testing, Lockheed Martin, military retirees, pay raise, synthetic marijuana, UCLASS, USS Chancellorsville
Posted by Publisher on December 31, 2013 · Leave a Comment
Formal collaborative agreements among between Virginia Tech, Rutgers and the University of Maryland System could retain Southern Maryland sites as potential testing arenas for commercializing unmanned aviation systems.
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Posted by Publisher on December 24, 2013 · Leave a Comment
Joint Chiefs of Staff Dempsey reminds Americans of the hundreds of thousands of service members and civilians workers who do not take holidays off from the job of keeping us safe.
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Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags army gen martin dempsey, BAE, China, DARPA, Dempsey, FAA, Israel, joing chiefs of staff, Morning Coffee, NASA, National Guard, netwarfare, Next Generation Jammer, Pakistan, Raytheon, robotics, robotics challenge
Posted by Publisher on December 23, 2013 · Leave a Comment
The bi-partisan budget bill on its way toward final approval makes big winners of big defense contractors, especially in aerospace and arms. Investors can expect a happy new year.
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Category Morning Coffee · Tags Barack Obama, Boeing, General Dynamics, JSF, Lockheed, Northrop Grumman, RAND Corp, Raytheon, South Korea, super-stealth drone, X-47
Posted by The Patuxent Partnership on December 19, 2013 · 1 Comment
Federal officials announced wind energy development leases would be offered for 80,000 acres at least 10 nautical miles off Ocean City late next year.
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Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags BAH, Compass Systems, Cyber Command, DHS, federal budget, Guantanamo, job satisfaction, NSA, Patuxent Partnership, retiree benefits, Snowden, wind farm
Posted by Java Joe on December 18, 2013 · Leave a Comment
In a recent letter to “the people of Brazil” NSA leaker Edward Snowden offered to help that nation investigate alleged American spying but would require Brazil to provide political asylum because the US “government will continue to interfere with my ability to speak.”
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Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags Baltic Sea, Brazil, Chuck Hagel, CPPD, cyber security, drones, Gary Patton, Iskander, Lockheed Martin, missiles, NATO, NSA, Russia, sexual assault, Snowden, Southern Maryland Sailing Foundation, tuition assistance, Yemen
Posted by Publisher on December 17, 2013 · Leave a Comment
Boston Dynamics became the eighth robotics firm Google has purchased in the past six months. Current military contracts will be honored, say Google execs, but the company doesn’t seek to become a military contractor on its own.
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Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags A-12, Bernhard Gerwert, Big dog robotics, Big Dogs, Boeing, Boston Dynamics, DARPA, Dick Cheney, EADS, Edward Snowden, Google, Growler, McDonnell Douglas, Military Officers Association of America, MOAA, National Defense Authorization Act, Navy Yard, NSA, robotics, Russia, SEpt 16\, soviet era weaponry, soviet weaponry, Supreme Court
