Posted by Java Joe on July 23, 2018 · Leave a Comment
Through the first two quarters of this fiscal year, the US has signed $46.9 billion in weapons sales to foreign partners and allies — smashing past the $41.9B figure from all of fiscal 2017.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags AH-1Z Viper, ALRE, artificial intelligence, bottled water recall, Capt. Kenneth Sterbenz, Farnborough, Farnborough International Airshow, Golden Knights, machine learning, Michael Monsoor, NATO, UH-1Y Venom
Posted by Java Joe on July 3, 2018 · Leave a Comment
A new Joint Artificial Intelligence Center at the Pentagon will have oversight over almost all service and defense agency AI efforts.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags AI, artificial intelligence, FARA, future attack renaissance aircraft, military spouse employment, North Korean summit, nuclear-powered submarine, RADM William Wheeler III, Rim of the Pacific drills, RIMPAC, Unified Platform, US Cyber Command, USS Harry S. Truman, USS Indiana, Zel Technologies
Posted by Java Joe on April 17, 2018 · Leave a Comment
A new report from the Government Accountability Office shows just how bad the military fighter pilot shortage has become.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags artificial intelligence, aviation accidents, blended retirement system, F-35 software strategy, Jeff Boleng, Paul Ryan, pilot retention, Syrian air strikes, T-45C Goshawk, USS Helena, wildlife strikes
Posted by Java Joe on April 3, 2018 · Leave a Comment
Recording artist Jimmy Buffett was presented with the Superior Public Service Award by NavSec Richard V. Spencer for supporting the Navy and Marine Corps. It’s the highest award that can be given to a civilian not employed by the Navy. The award was presented last week during a concert at the US Naval Academy.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags artificial intelligence, ATARI, Blue Angels, Cloud Lake Technology, Fat Albert, Jimmy Buffet, Littoral Combat Ship, longbow hellfire, military occupational codes, Progeny Systems, RADM Ronny Jackson, SSMM, Superior Public Service Award, surface-to-surface missile module
Posted by Java Joe on March 13, 2018 · Leave a Comment
President Donald Trump’s Veterans Day military parade will include wheeled military vehicles, but no tanks. This is to prevent “damage to local infrastructure,” the Pentagon says. The parade will, however, include a “heavy air component” at the end.
Posted by Java Joe on February 20, 2018 · Leave a Comment
VADM Robert P. Burke believes the Navy may need to offer aviation incentive pay and aviation bonuses to help retain pilots. “We continue to face challenges within some historically retention-challenged communities, particularly among aviators in specific model/type/series platforms,” Burke told Congress.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags artificial intelligence, Cope North, cybersecurity, Eurofighter Typhoon, John Gibson, Lockheed Martin, NASA, Pentagon aquisitions, pilot retention, RADM John Miller, Russian influence in election, USS Carl Vinson, VADM Robert Burke, Will Roper
Posted by Java Joe on November 30, 2017 · Leave a Comment
A Navy P-8A Poseidon flying over the Black Sea was rocked when a Russian jet flew just 50 feet in front of the American aircraft, leaving the Poseidon in the fighter’s afterburners.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags artificial intelligence, Charles Schumer, cyber war, cybersecurity, government shutdown, long-range missile, mattis, Melwood, military artificial intelligence, Nancy Pelosi, NSA, sheldon Whitehouse, Turkey
Posted by Java Joe on November 21, 2017 · Leave a Comment
Though the defense policy bill passed by Congress won’t create a new branch of the military dedicated to space, it does make changes that lay the groundwork for a Space Corps to become a reality in the near future. One analyst says, “This issue is not dead at all.”
Category Morning Coffee · Tags Argentine submarine, artificial intelligence, Benfold, E-2D Hawkeye, East China Sea, Gen. Mark Milley, John C. Grimberg Co., Joint Tactical Information Distribution System, JTIDS, Link 16, Littoral Combat Ships, Lockheed Martin, Mark Esper, MQ-25 Stingray, pilot retention, retention bonuses, Space Corps, troops in Somalia
Posted by Java Joe on October 10, 2017 · Leave a Comment
The Pentagon has taken over an effort to cut the cost of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter as it tries to make a program estimated to cost $400 billion more affordable.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags AI, artificial intelligence, child care, DARPA, deployments in Asia, digital warfare office, DoD leaks, F-35 joint strike fighter, live-fire joint exercise, video synthetic aperture radar, ViSAR
Posted by Java Joe on September 12, 2017 · Leave a Comment
Members of the military are being kept busy with relief operation efforts following Hurricanes Irma and Harvey.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags artificial intelligence, Dahlgren, Hurricane Irma, hurricane relief, North Korea sanctions, precision weapons, Robert Behler, SMART Scholars, Thomas Modly, USS Fitzgerald, USS John S. McCain
