Posted by Java Joe on January 16, 2014 · Leave a Comment
The House of Representatives passed the $1.1 trillion omnibus spending bill and it now moves to the Senate for its consideration.
Category Leader Features · Tags aircraft carrier, Boeing, Congress, F-35, F/A-18, Homeless veterans, Israel, Lockheed Martin, MQ-8 Fire Scout, OCO, omnibus appropriations bill, Ray Mabus, Robert Martinage, Sen. Barbara Mikulski, sequestration, TSA Inc, USS Theodore Roosevelt, V-22 Osprey
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 December 23, 2013 · Leave a Comment
The bi-partisan budget bill on its way toward final approval makes big winners of big defense contractors, especially in aerospace and arms. Investors can expect a happy new year.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags Barack Obama, Boeing, General Dynamics, JSF, Lockheed, Northrop Grumman, RAND Corp, Raytheon, South Korea, super-stealth drone, X-47
Posted by Publisher on December 17, 2013 · Leave a Comment
Boston Dynamics became the eighth robotics firm Google has purchased in the past six months. Current military contracts will be honored, say Google execs, but the company doesn’t seek to become a military contractor on its own.
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Posted by Java Joe on December 11, 2013 · Leave a Comment
The new stealth drone may be twice the size of Lockheed Martin’s RQ-170 Sentinel drone which makes it large enough to conduct operations as an unmanned stealth bomber, although spying is likely the aircraft’s main mission.
Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags Area 51, Boeing, drone, federal contractors, Kamkar, NDAA, Northrop Grumman, P-8 Poseidon, PTSD, RQ-170, RQ-180, SkyJack
Posted by Publisher on December 10, 2013 · Leave a Comment
Plans are for the F-35 to replace the F-18, but as important production dates approach the Navy and industry face tough and costly decisions based on projected completion dates that still look a bit iffy.
Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags $607 bilion defense spending bill, Boeing, Chuck Hagel, Cyber Gym, cyber-attack, defense spending bill, F-18, F-35, Gulf Cooperation Council, Israel, Jeff Bezo, JSF, Marine Corps, RADM Donald Gaddis, Say Kamkar, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, SkyJack, Super Hornet
Posted by Java Joe on November 21, 2013 · 1 Comment
Tricare healthcare center to close in the spring due to cost cutting effort. Face-to-face services will be replaced by toll-free phone and online access.
Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags Boeing, BQM-34S, BQM-74, cyber security, cyber-attack, drone, EHR, electronic health record, F-35, health care, Lockheed Martin, Maritime Surveillance, Northrop Grumman, open source software, P-8 Poseidon, Pentagon, Southern Maryland Sailing Foundation, Tricare
Posted by Java Joe on November 20, 2013 · Leave a Comment
The 2014 defense bill must pass by Dec. 12 to avoid a $50 billion cut hitting the Pentagon mid-January.
Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags 2014 Department of Defense Appropriations Act, benefits, Boeing, budget, C-17, compensation, Congress, EA-18, F-35, F/A-18, federal contractors, Globemaster, government shutdown, iran drone, JSF, Lockheed, MAVEN, P-8 Poseidon, Pentagon, Senate, sequesration, Veterans Benefits, veterans programs
Posted by Publisher on November 19, 2013 · Leave a Comment
Lockheed, Boeing and Northrup have designs for NASA’s supersonic plane in 2025 and DARPA has plans for a space plane even sooner.
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Posted by Publisher on November 11, 2013 · Leave a Comment
Armstice Day approaches its 100th year of commemoration from the 1918 end of World War I as US involvement in Vietnam approaches its 50th anniversary in 2015.
Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags Boeing, Business Korea, College of Southern Maryland, college-southern-maryland, CSM, Early Bird, JSF, satellite communications, South Korea, Southern Maryland Sailing Foundation, Stars and Stripes, Taranis UCAS, Typhoon Haiyan, Vietnam, Vietnam War
