Morning Coffee: DoD Seeks Additional 2015 Funding
The Pentagon is seeking $26 billion in additional funding, outside of its 2015 budget request, for infrastructure and aircraft.
Morning Coffee: Triton is Ultimate Search Tool
The Navy has the perfect search tool, the MQ-4C Triton drone, for looking for Malaysian Air Flight 370 but it is not yet operational.
Morning Coffee: DoD Contracts Continue Dive
DoD contracts fell 48 percent in February extending a drop that has awards near the lowest level in almost two years,
Morning Coffee: Bad Landing Sends Global Hawk to PAX
A remotely piloted Global Hawk out of Edwards AFB crashed in 2009 and now leaves storage to serve in MQ-4C Triton development and maintenance training at NAS:Pax.
Morning Coffee: MD House Passes Turbine Moratorium
SoMd legislators sought the moratorium fearing radar interference from a wind turbine farm on the Eastern Shore of Maryland across the Chesapeake Bay from NAS:PaxRiver.
Morning Coffee: AirLand Chair Advocates Full F-35 Funding
Sen. Richard Blumenthal, incoming chairman of the AirLand subcommittee, believes the best approach to resolving F-35 problems is to fully fund it.
Morning Coffee: Navy Expands Plane Search
The USS Kidd, a guided missile destroyer, has now joined the USS Pinckney in the search effort for a missing Malaysian airliner.
Morning Coffee: Cyber Confirmation Hearings Begin
Edward Snowden appears via satellite the day before Congress launches confirmation hearings on VADM Michael Rogers to lead NSA & US Cyber Command
Morning Coffee: Budget Cuts Naval Aviation, Not UCLASS
Unmanned technology and benefit reductions define Pentagon budget strategies and a slim majority of Senators keep sexual assault cases inside chain of command to avert a war against the military cultural.
Morning Coffee: 2015 Budget Cuts Deep
Military personnel spending may drop to 2008 levels as DOD cuts back from steep wartime expenditures under the 2015 budget request released Tuesday.