Posted by Java Joe on March 27, 2023 · Leave a Comment
The US Navy’s Blue Angels demonstration team has its first female pilot — LT Amanda Lee. LT Lee flew her first public show earlier this month at the Naval Air Facility El Centro Air Show.
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Category Morning Coffee · Tags Charlotte Hall Veterans Home, Freedom Shield 23, Joint Precision Approach and Landing System, JPALS, LT Amanda Lee, NAVAIR, RADM James P. Downey, TikTok, Ukraine, USS John F. Kennedy, Women's History Month
Posted by Java Joe on March 23, 2023 · Leave a Comment
Ching Shih was anything but your standard pirate. She was a former sex worker who married into the pirate life and turned out to be really, really good at it.
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Posted by Java Joe on March 20, 2023 · Leave a Comment
Maryland lawmakers and advocates are concerned about reports of neglect and abuse of residents at the Charlotte Hall Veterans Home, a disclosure that led the state to cancel its contract with HMR Maryland, the company that has managed the facility since 2002.
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Category Morning Coffee · Tags American Defense Communities, Blue Angels, Charlotte Hall Veterans Home, Chesapeake Technologies, cold spray technology, Curtis Beulah, Fat Leonard, Fleet Readiness Center East, Ignite, Indyne Inc., Lockheed Martin, LT Amanda Lee, military suicides, MQ-9 Reaper, QinetiQ Inc., SSPARS, STEM
Posted by Java Joe on March 16, 2023 · Leave a Comment
The Pentagon is abandoning its efforts to develop a next-generation adaptive engine for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, going instead for an upgrade to the current F-35 engine — a major win for F135 maker Pratt & Whitney.
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Posted by Java Joe on March 13, 2023 · Leave a Comment
Lockheed Martin has announced the layoff of 176 workers at its Sikorsky division supporting the heavy lift helicopter program at NAS Patuxent River. The layoffs are effective April 27.
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Category Morning Coffee · Tags defense budget, F-35, Fort Meade, Leidos, N2/N6, offshore wind energy, POWER Act, presidential helicopter, Ukraine, US Space Force, VADM Karl Thomas
Posted by Java Joe on March 9, 2023 · Leave a Comment
Lockheed Martin resumed accepting flights of newly built F-35 Joint Strike Fighters early this week, nearly three months after an engine problem grounded new jets and halted deliveries.
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Posted by Java Joe on March 6, 2023 · Leave a Comment
The F-35 Joint Program Office has ordered that all F-35 jets should be retrofitted with a fix intended to solve a potential engine vibration problem. This includes a global retrofit, not just for US aircraft.
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Category Morning Coffee · Tags 18F/A-18E/F Super Hornet, CAE USA Inc., CAPT Stephen Bowen, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, E-7A Wedgetail, F-35, Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, Larry Hogan, Lockheed Martin, Medal of Honor, Naval Air Systems Command, P-8 Poseidon, P-8A, SpaceX, Ukraine, US Cyber Command, Veronica Johnson, WalletHub
Posted by Java Joe on March 2, 2023 · Leave a Comment
The US and Canada have given their agencies a month to clear TikTok from all government devices amid mounting fears of data ending up in the hands of Chinese Communist Party members via the Chinese-owned social media platform.
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Posted by Java Joe on February 27, 2023 · Leave a Comment
Naval Air Forces investigators found that pilot error caused an F-35C Lightning II fighter jet to crash onto the deck of the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson before sliding into the South China Sea last year. The error “was not conducted in a reckless manner nor with malicious intent,” according to the Naval Air Forces Command.
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Category Morning Coffee · Tags 5G, BAE Systems, Boeing, C-130, F-35C crash, F/A-18 Super Hornet, Hardware Open Systems Technology HOST, IDEX defense expo, Jonathan Ortega, Juniper Networks, Lockheed Martin, mental health, NAVAIR PMA-209, Outlying Field Webster, rear admiral promotions, Servicemembers’ Group Life Insurance, Ukraine
Posted by Java Joe on February 23, 2023 · Leave a Comment
A team of Japanese researchers have located the missing submarine Albacore off Hokkaido, Japan’s northernmost main island. USS Albacore (SS-218) had one of the most successful combat records of all Navy submarines in World War II when it sank near the strait between Hokkaido and Honshu islands, a main shipping channel on Nov. 7, 1944.
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