Posted by Java Joe on January 8, 2014 · Leave a Comment
A full fiscal 2014 Pentagon spending bill will be included in a compromise measure that must pass before next Tuesday night to avert a gov. shutdown.
Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags BAE, Boeing, DoD budget, drone, F-35, F/A-18 Super Hornet, Global Hawk, K-MAX, Lockheed Martin, MQ-1, MV-22 Osprey, Northrop Grumman, Pentagon, Predator, same sex spouse, Tricare, UCLASS
Posted by Publisher on January 7, 2014 · Leave a Comment
Part of the Navy’s strong budget position is forward thinking cyber capabilities, cyberwarfare is seen as the nation’s most serious threat by national security leaders.
Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags BAE, cyberwarfare, Defense News poll, Iraq, John Kerry, Jonathan Greenert, Navy, Pacific pivot, Panavia Tornado GR4, Russian Navy, South China Sea, UK Royal Air Force, us cape ray
Posted by Publisher on December 24, 2013 · Leave a Comment
Joint Chiefs of Staff Dempsey reminds Americans of the hundreds of thousands of service members and civilians workers who do not take holidays off from the job of keeping us safe.
Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags army gen martin dempsey, BAE, China, DARPA, Dempsey, FAA, Israel, joing chiefs of staff, Morning Coffee, NASA, National Guard, netwarfare, Next Generation Jammer, Pakistan, Raytheon, robotics, robotics challenge
Posted by Java Joe on November 27, 2013 · Leave a Comment
The MQ-8C Fire Scout can fly twice as long and carry three times more intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance payloads than the current model.
Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags airspace, B-52, BAE, China, defense industry, drone, F-16, Fire Scout, JDAM, miitary technology, MQ-8C, Northrop Grumman, Operation Damayan, rank advancement, RMP, Southern Maryland Sailing Foundation, tax incentive, technology advances, territory dispute, UCLASS
Posted by Sheila Gibbons on October 28, 2013 · 1 Comment
Defense firms use multiple tactics to protect their bottom lines as shifts in funding and wish lists force rebalancing.
Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags B-1, B-15, BAE, Boeing, defense contractors, F-35, federal employees, Lockheed, sequestration, Taranis UCAV
Posted by Publisher on September 10, 2013 · 1 Comment
As the anniversary of 9/11 approaches the US takes precautions across the globe and schedules remembrances at home.
Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags 9/11 anniversary, acquisition, Apple, BAE, Benghazi Libya, big business, continuing spending resolution, Dahlgren VA, Eric Cantor, F35, iPhone, Libya, Marines, sequestration, stock market, UCLAS
Posted by Publisher on July 22, 2013 · Leave a Comment
Military budgets, military strategies, military industries and military security concerns convene in Congress this week as the Navy’s latest communication satellite orbits overhead.
Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags Afghanistan, Ashton Carter, Aspen Security Summit, BAE, Canada, Canada helicopters, Carl Levin, cyber-espionage, Defense Appripriations bill, DoD FY14, Drealiner, federal health care insurance, Gen. Martin Dempsey, Huawei, Isreal deplys missile, John McCain, Navy communications satellite, Navy jammer, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, sequestration, Sikorsky
Posted by Editor on January 30, 2013 · Leave a Comment
The Boeing-owned company is locked in a scuffle with a patent claimant over small Navy ISR drone.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags BAE, biofuels, budget, Capt. Paul Overstreet, Congress, F-35C, Insitu, Joint Strike Fighter, JSF, Pentagon, ScanEagle, sequestration
Posted by Editor on January 3, 2013 · Leave a Comment
Obama signs the Defense Authorization Act along with the sequestration delay bill.
Posted by Editor on November 9, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Congress is talking about fixing sequestration, but, so far, just talking.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags Alliant Techsystems, Ashton Carter, BAE, Boeing, China, Congress, contracts, Maryland, NAVAIR, NAWCAD, Pentagon, Raytheon, sequestration, stealth