Posted by Java Joe on September 2, 2014 · Leave a Comment
The Navy’s X-47B UCAS completed its final test aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt and returned to its home base at NAS Pax River after eight days at sea.
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Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags Atlantic Test Range, Boeing, domestic violence, F-22, F-35C Joint Strike Fighter, F/A-18 Super Hornet, F/A-XX, F135, Lockheed Martin, military pay, NAVAIR, Pratt & Whitney, UCAS, Victor Gavin, X-47B
Posted by Java Joe on August 28, 2014 · Leave a Comment
Potential DoD cuts include the Office of the Secretary of Defense and 16 defense agencies which account for about 20 percent of the overall defense budget.
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Posted by Java Joe on August 27, 2014 · Leave a Comment
The number of employees at the five largest US defense contractors dropped 14 percent from a peak in 2008, and 10 percent over the past decade.
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Posted by Java Joe on August 26, 2014 · Leave a Comment
Restructuring DISA will create a more comprehensive cybersecurity defense strategy and secure the DoD information network (DoDIN).
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Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags Big Data, CACI, cybersecurity, DISA, F-35, Lockheed Martin, P-8 Poseidon, U.S. Naval Academy, UCLASS, USS Bonhomme Richard, VADM Ted Carter
Posted by Java Joe on August 25, 2014 · Leave a Comment
MQ-4C Triton UAS’s will fly cross-country to NAS Pax River this fall after completing testing in California.
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Posted by Java Joe on August 21, 2014 · Leave a Comment
NAVAIR says the UCLASS RFP will be released after a final senior DoD review and approval scheduled to occur over the next three weeks.
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Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags 2015 budget, Acquisition Leadership Symposium, Boeing, courts martial results, General Atomics, Jessica Wright, Lockheed Martin, NAVAIR, Northrop Grumman, RAND Military Workplace Study, UCLASS
Posted by Java Joe on August 20, 2014 · Leave a Comment
If Canada doesn’t join the F-35 JSF program it may negatively affect the long-term affordability of the F-35 for all participants.
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Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags 2014 budget, Boeing, exoskeleton technology, F-35, F/A-18 Super Hornet, K-MAX, Lockheed Martin, Senator Barbara A. Mikulski, Student Veterans of America, Tricare, wind farm
Posted by Java Joe on August 19, 2014 · Leave a Comment
In a historic first, an unmanned X-47B UCAS both took off and landed alongside a manned aircraft, an F/A-18E Super Hornet.
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Posted by Java Joe on August 18, 2014 · Leave a Comment
Maryland lawmakers, environmental groups and wind energy advocates want Senator Mikulski to remove spending bill language that would delay the wind farm.
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Posted by Java Joe on August 14, 2014 · Leave a Comment
Earlier testing may catch problems before money is wasted but the idea sparked old conflicts between the procurement shop and the testing office.
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