DoD Budget Hikes Slow to Reach Contractors
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Defense investors are cautioned that the strong military budgets approved in Congress will not go to defense contractors before addressing rising costs of social services, health care and pensions for an aging and increasingly professional military. Investors should also consider the Pentagon’s continued desire to veto defense firm mergers, based on national security concerns, says Defense News.
Only short-term, sustaining maintenance is afforded the Navy’s 70 installations worldwide, says SeaPower Magazine, quoting the admiral overseeing them. The issue is funding and the prioritization of force readiness and strategic deterrence.
Liberty Voice provides the basic concepts for Understanding the Mechanics of Flight of fixed and rotary-wing aircraft via written explanations, links and video.
Saudi Arabia turns down the US Navy offer to build four frigates based on Lockheed’s littoral combat ship. Defense News reports it is only a negotiation ploy, not a rejection of the overall deal.
Military Times reports the Navy’s Rail Gun is still officially heading into testing, but circumstances are shifting, including which ship will carry it. Here’s video of the electromagnetic Rail Gun.
Sailors from Hampton Roads are heading to Antarctica, bringing 20 million pounds of supplies to civilian scientists and researchers who work year-round in the US Antarctic Program, reports PilotOnline..
CNN reports, North Korea continues to hold a US citizen and Canada pastor as spies.
Mallows Bay in the Potomac River holds scores of shipwrecks, mostly from WWI, They comprise the watery graveyard known as the “Ghost Fleet, ” where, today, nature has risen from the dead. CNN reports progress toward the site becoming a national marine sanctuary. Check out the video at the end of their report.
