Posted by Publisher on February 11, 2014 · Leave a Comment
First Lady Michelle Obama and Labor Secretary Thomas E. Perez announce a commitment from 100 firms in the construction industry for 100,000 jobs for vets in the next five years.
Posted by Publisher on February 10, 2014 · Leave a Comment
Fixes to the Gen-2 helmet gained credence during tests last year with a surrogate aircraft flying from St. Mary’s Regional Airport close to NAS:PAX, the resulting Gen-3 is slated for testing this year.
Posted by Sheila Gibbons on February 4, 2014 · Leave a Comment
Focus is on budgets, as U.S. defense sales slip yet again and Pentagon struggles to rein in spending.
Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags arms sales, Britain, China, DARPA, defense spending, France, Japan, Missile Defense, Northrop Grumman, X-47B
Posted by Java Joe on January 30, 2014 · Leave a Comment
A DoD acquisition executive responded this week to a negative report on the Navy’s Boeing P-8A Poseidon aircraft.
Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags Boeing, CBP, China, Coherent Technical Services, COLA, CTSi, deer crashes, DoD, drone, F-35 joint strike fighter, Inspector General, JSF, Lockheed Martin, Operation Homeport, P-8 Poseidon, P-8A, Predator, UAS
Posted by Publisher on January 27, 2014 · Leave a Comment
The Blue Angels remain a revered public face of naval aviation, which alone among the services continues the F-35 cost debate even as developing future air warfare strategies.
Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags Boeing, China, Chuck Hagel, Congress, drones, F-16, F-35, Joint Strike Fighter, JSF, Lockheed Martin, Patuxent River Naval Air Museum, Scorpion, Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, Southern Maryland Sailing Foundation, Super Hornet, UAE, United Arab Emirates
Posted by Publisher on January 14, 2014 · Leave a Comment
AP video shows equipment to destroy Syria’s chemical weapons installed on the merchant ship. In DC, hopes grow that the omnibus spending bill will pass by week’s end.
Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags Adiz, Aircraft Defense Identification Zone, Cape Ray, China, Frank Kendall, Jo Ann Rooney, Kelly Ayotte, Kirsten Gilligrand, South China Sea, Southern Maryland Sailing Foundation, spending bill
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 Publisher on December 16, 2013 · Leave a Comment
Senate passage of the Defense Bill is predicted this week, but reductions in military retiree benefits and partisanship remain obstacles to passage of budget bill approved by the House last week.
Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags budget bill, Carl Levin, China, Chuck Hagel, East China Sea, F-16, F-18, F-et, Japan, Kelly Ayotte, Lindsey Graham, military benefits, military retirees, national defense bill, patty murray, Rep Paul Ryan, Sen. Patty Murray, Senate Armed Services Committee, Sikorsky Innovations, Singapore, South Korea, Southern Maryland Sailing Foundation
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 Java Joe on November 13, 2013 · Leave a Comment
Three very different 2014 DOD funding scenarios are still being considered a month and a half into the fiscal year.
Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags ballistic missile, Blackberry, budget, CACI, China, Congress, cybersecurity, DHS, drone, FY14, Guam, JL-2, Lockheed, Lockheed Martin, NSA, nuclear, Pentagon, Robert Hale, sequestration, unmanned aircraft, USS Theodore Roosevelt, X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System
