March 29, 2024

Morning Coffee: 2014 Outlook for Large Contractors

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2014 will be a tough year for defense contractors, but if companies can endure the fiscal year the worst could soon be in the past.

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Morning Coffee: Lockheed Again Top Contractor

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Top 200 list includes 34 local companies who pulled in 23 percent of fiscal 2013 awarded federal contract funds.

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Morning Coffee: UCLASS RFP Details and Analysis

Potential Boeing UCLASS

The draft RFP is designed to generate industry input on design, development, construction and deployment.

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Morning Coffee: Boeing Pushes for Growler Funding

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Contractor believes the Lockheed F-35 stealth jet fighter is vulnerable to advanced radars that can’t “see” Growlers.

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Morning Coffee: Wind Farm Debate Continues

Eastern Shore wind energy

The Baltimore Sun expresses its support for the proposed wind farm and advocates a “win-win” solution that also protects NAS Pax River interests.

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Morning Coffee: Drone Production to Fall After 2017

Drone manufacturing will increase over the next three years before declining for the next seven as demand falls.

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Morning Coffee: DoD Specifies Sequestration Cuts

Continued personnel reductions across the military, 17 fewer F-35 Joint Strike Fighters and six fewer P-8A aircraft define the FY16 budget.

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Morning Coffee: DoD Contracting Down in March

Contracts fall 11 percent as the Pentagon continues to respond to sequestration cuts and the Afghanistan pullout.

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Morning Coffee: NAVAIR Head Seeks Contracting Reform

Vice Adm. David A. Dunaway

Vice Adm. Dunaway says overhead costs overwhelm the implementation of new technology and that there is a “stranglehold” of proprietary systems.

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Surveillance Aircraft Top House Priority

Intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance capabilities are top priorities and include the Northrop Global Hawk and Boeing P-8 aircraft.

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