April 25, 2024

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.

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Morning Coffee: MD House Passes Turbine Moratorium

wind turbine farm

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.

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Morning Coffee: AirLand Chair Advocates Full F-35 Funding

F-35 transonic

Sen. Richard Blumenthal, incoming chairman of the AirLand subcommittee, believes the best approach to resolving F-35 problems is to fully fund it.

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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.

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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

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Morning Coffee: Budget Cuts Naval Aviation, Not UCLASS

Potential Boeing 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.

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Morning Coffee: 2015 Budget Cuts Deep

budget axe

Military personnel spending may drop to 2008 levels as DOD cuts back from steep wartime expenditures under the 2015 budget request released Tuesday.

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Morning Coffee: Super Hornet Production to Slow?

Boeing may slow the construction of the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet and EA-18G Growler to give Congress time to order additional aircraft.

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Morning Coffee: Energy is US Cyber’s Weak Link

Nuclear-safety regs after Three Mile Island incentivized compliance, government should use the same method for cyber-security compliance of all energy distributors, says study.

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Morning Coffee: P-8A Enters Full-Rate Production

Even as the Navy buys more aircraft, some pilots are planning for a future flying from a desk with a joy stick and keyboard.

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