Morning Coffee: Fell off the Burner

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Sorry we missed you this morning. Below is a human-memory recap of some of what regular Morning Coffee readers would have read about Wednesday morning if all was right with the world every day in every way. It isn’t.  And so it goes.

There is a bipartisan group of congressmen writing letters to members of the House Appropriations Committee asking that DoD’s civilian jobs be protected from automatic budget cuts. The Committee is going into closed door session the end of this week to begin discussion of the FY15 budget.

Meanwhile there are virtually no Senators interested in following the Pentagon’s budget priority list which would drop a few weapons systems, or at least put them on a back burner, to protect personnel and military readiness.

The president made a big Memorial Weekend deal about visiting Afghanistan to first tell the troops and then later from the White House to announce again that America is on schedule to bring 32,000 troops home by the start of next year but that 9,000 troops would be remaining so the US doesn’t lose any ground in the longest war it has ever fought.

DARPA is pumping out next-generation everything, but it mostly has to do with surveillance, cyber-security across a large swath of applications and finding shared platforms/common modalities for everything possible. There are a plethora of articles coming out of DARPA, generated by its recent “science fair” about itself. Here are 10 the Christian Science Monitor describes, noting that DARPA labs are where the internet was invented.

And also recovered in the unexpected Morning Coffee burn of early morning, is a link to ENC’s presentation three of  small UAVs in photographs, the AAI Corporation’s RQ-7 Shadow, AeroVironment RQ-11 Raven, and Lockheed’s Desert Hawk.

Thanks for staying tuned.