Morning Coffee: UCLASS RFP Details and Analysis
The draft RFP is designed to generate industry input on design, development, construction and deployment.
Morning Coffee: Boeing Pushes for Growler Funding
Contractor believes the Lockheed F-35 stealth jet fighter is vulnerable to advanced radars that can’t “see” Growlers.
Morning Coffee: Wind Farm Debate Continues
The Baltimore Sun expresses its support for the proposed wind farm and advocates a “win-win” solution that also protects NAS Pax River interests.
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.
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.
Morning Coffee: DoD Contracting Down in March
Contracts fall 11 percent as the Pentagon continues to respond to sequestration cuts and the Afghanistan pullout.
Morning Coffee: NAVAIR Head Seeks Contracting Reform
Vice Adm. Dunaway says overhead costs overwhelm the implementation of new technology and that there is a “stranglehold” of proprietary systems.
Surveillance Aircraft Top House Priority
Intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance capabilities are top priorities and include the Northrop Global Hawk and Boeing P-8 aircraft.
Morning Coffee: UCLASS RFP Due This Summer
The Boeing X-47B to start new sea trials and the UCLASS X-47B follow on RFP is scheduled for release this summer.
Morning Coffee: Navy Laser Weapon Development Advances
Navy engineers to deploy a groundbreaking laser weapon prototype on the USS Ponce for at-sea testing this summer.
