Morning Coffee: Two Crashes Put Fire Scout on Pause
Fire Scout program is on an “operational pause” after crashes on March 30 and April 6.
Morning Coffee: Crash Spotlights Aging F-18s, Oceana Base
Media speculates that the incident could finally close Oceana Naval Air Station.
Morning Coffee: The Billion-Dollar Seahawk Upgrade
NAVAIR awards Lockheed with $1 billion Seahawk helicopter update contract.
Morning Coffee: The Cloud Gets Complex for Government
Agencies now faced with different flavors and solutions of cloud computing.
Morning Coffee: Pentagon Says F-35 Wobbly, but Stabilizing
Meanwhile, Canada’s top auditor blasts the Joint Strike Fighter program.
Morning Coffee: Nine Months Until Sequestration
Roughly $500 billion in automatic defense cuts are less than a year away if Congress does nothing.
Morning Coffee: Fire Scout Can’t Shake Reputation
Latest Pentagon cost report still says the unmanned helicopter is unreliable as close air support.
Morning Coffee: JSF’s Cost Estimate Jumps 15 Percent
F-35’s lifetime cost estimate now sits at $1.45 trillion.
Morning Coffee: Here Come the Eastern Shore Windmills
Crisfield project scaled back under pressure from Pax River.
Morning Coffee: Still Some Gold in Federal Contracting
The mine may be shrinking, but there are still nuggets to be found.
