Posted by Publisher on December 10, 2013 · Leave a Comment
Plans are for the F-35 to replace the F-18, but as important production dates approach the Navy and industry face tough and costly decisions based on projected completion dates that still look a bit iffy.
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Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags $607 bilion defense spending bill, Boeing, Chuck Hagel, Cyber Gym, cyber-attack, defense spending bill, F-18, F-35, Gulf Cooperation Council, Israel, Jeff Bezo, JSF, Marine Corps, RADM Donald Gaddis, Say Kamkar, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, SkyJack, Super Hornet
Posted by Publisher on December 9, 2013 · Leave a Comment
US military technology continues to advance and the whole world wants it. Meanwhile the US military budget crumbles.
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Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags Afghanistan, arms sales, F-13, Homeland Defense, JSF, Lockheed, MUOS, Netanyahu, South Korea, submarine UAS launch
Posted by Java Joe on December 5, 2013 · Leave a Comment
The House completed work months ago, but Party quarreling in the Senate continues to hold up passage of the Pentagon spending bill. Senate leaders intend to reconsider the bill next week after returning from a two week hiatus.
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Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags drone, F/A-18 Hornet, Global Hawk, hackers, House of Representatives, John Boehner, JSF, Lockheed Martin, NATO, NDAA, NORAD, Northrop Grumman, Patuxent River Naval Air Museum, Pearl Harbor, RQ-4, security breach, Senate, sequestration, Southern Maryland Sailing Foundation, USS Nimitz
Posted by Java Joe on December 4, 2013 · Leave a Comment
Mega-rich individuals are often providers and innovators of information technology such as cyber-security, cloud computing and data mining for both commercial and federal customers.
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Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags 1-percenter, AirWatch, amazon, Ashton Carter, Bezos, Biden, Blackberry, China Sea, Christine Fox, Chuck Hagel, Dabbiere, drone, dry submersible, entrepreneur, FIST2FAC, I-400, Lockheed Martin, MUOS, Octocopter, Pentagon, Prime Air, S301i, satellite, SEAL, Southern Maryland Sailing Foundation, submarine, training
Posted by Publisher on December 3, 2013 · 1 Comment
No country will host the destruction of Syria’s most lethal chemical weapons, so the US is outfitting a commercial transport vessel to do the job at sea.
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Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags 7th fleet, Austrialian Department ofDefense, chemical weapons at sea, Cyber Monday, drones, East China Sea, Falco, Falco drones, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, JSF, MV Cape Ray, P-8 Poseidon, P=8A Poseidon, Pacific fleet, Pakistan, Quickstep Holdings, Seizure Sunday, Syria, UN, United Nations drones, USS George Washington
Posted by Publisher on December 2, 2013 · 1 Comment
Despite escalating costs, the F-35 remains top priority to a military facing a shrinking pool of qualified engineers and a shrinking budget.
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Posted by Java Joe on November 28, 2013 · Leave a Comment
Defense Secretary expresses his gratitude to military service members and their families yesterday in a Thanksgiving message.
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Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags ACA, air defense zone, B-52, china south sea, Chuck Hagel, HHS, Kathleen Sebelius, Northrop Grumman, Obamacare, Thanksgiving, veterans, X-47B
Posted by Java Joe on November 27, 2013 · Leave a Comment
The MQ-8C Fire Scout can fly twice as long and carry three times more intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance payloads than the current model.
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Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags airspace, B-52, BAE, China, defense industry, drone, F-16, Fire Scout, JDAM, miitary technology, MQ-8C, Northrop Grumman, Operation Damayan, rank advancement, RMP, Southern Maryland Sailing Foundation, tax incentive, technology advances, territory dispute, UCLASS
The ice cap is melting faster than anticipated and commercial interest accelerating prompting the US to think strategically about security in the Arctic.
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Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags Arctic Strategy plan, chemical weapons, Chestertown MD, Chuck Hagel, Compass Systems, corporate taxes, cybersecurity, cybersecurty legislation, Frank Narducci, industrial policy, Jay Rockefeller, job loss in MD, JSF North Carolina, Maryland, Naval Air Systems Command, Norton Schwartz, O'Malley, Patuxent Partnership, Sen. Max Baucus, Syria, tax loopholes
Posted by Publisher on November 25, 2013 · Leave a Comment
The 2005 BRAC process shed half of an identified 25% excess infrastructure at military installations. Pentagon officials struggling with shrinking budgets say the percentage is larger now and seek another realignment.
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Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags Army clothing line, Authentic apparel Group, BF-1, Council on Foreign Relations, F-35, fashionista, North Korea, Surveillance Aircraft program, X-47B UCAS, Zappos
