March 28, 2024

Marines Take Their F-35s in July, Glitches or Not

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The Marines are ready to take delivery of the F-35 this year, as-is, Gov Exec reports on comments by Lt. Gen. Christopher Bogdan, the F-35 program manger.

Essential, 480-gallon external tanks tucked under the wings of some F/A-18 models, the Super Hornet fighter and the Growler jamming aircraft are incompatible with the Navy’s newest carrier’s electromagnetic launch system, reports Bloomberg, citing a report issued last September by the Naval Air Systems Command.

Calling it a “breakthrough,” The Hill reports a $200 billion Medicare budget deal struck by Speaker John Boehner and Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi that resoundingly passed the House in a bipartisan vote of 392-37.

Secretary of State John Kerry ordered an internal audit of the State Department and seeking how to safely retain all foreign policy documents, reports the Washington Times.

New FCC internet rules face challenges and modification from the courts, Congress, the president, and the budget, reports The Hill. The Hill also reports the cybersecurity bill, coming strong out of committee last week, still faces obstacles to full Senate passage.

There’s a lot of competition to Ft. Meade, Maryland, seeking to become global cybersecurity centers, reports The Christian Science Monitor.

A camouflage coating that can wick sound from submarines is now theoretical possible, according to a paper released by Physicist Baile Zhang and his colleagues at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, reports Popular Mechanics.

What’s in a password? Too often it is a favorite sport (baseball is tops), favorite team (yankees is top), 123456, and “password.” All of these are bad choices, reports The Hill, but standards for strong passwords vary across the internet.

Rain Tax, Stormwater Fee, Reducing Contaminants: polling shows completely different support and opposition percentages for these descriptions of the same Maryland fee, earmarked to clean up the Chesapeake Bay, reports The Baltimore Sun.

Rolls-Royce Corp., Indianapolis, Indiana, is being awarded a $93,553,851 modification to a previously awarded indefinite-delivery, requirements contract (N00019-14-D-0016) to exercise an option to provide intermediate, depot level maintenance and related logistics support for approximately 223 in-service T-45 F405-RR-401 Adour engines and MKII gas turbine starters. Work will be performed at the Naval Air Station (NAS) Meridian, Mississippi (47 percent); NAS Kingsville, Texas (46 percent); NAS Pensacola, Florida (6 percent); and NAS Patuxent River, Maryland (1 percent), and is expected to be completed in March 2016. No funds will be obligated at time of award; funds will be obligated on individual delivery orders as they are issued. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Maryland, is the contracting activity.

 

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