Posted by Java Joe on May 25, 2017 · Leave a Comment
The Pentagon is a winner in Trump’s proposed FY18 budget, but some cuts will impact the military as well.
Posted by Java Joe on October 23, 2014 · Leave a Comment
The FAA determined that wind turbines would interfere with radar used by Pennsylvania air traffic controllers at Erie International Airport.
Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags BAE, Chinese navy, COLA, education benefits, FAA, Homeless veterans, ISIS operation costs, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, SilverSky, Teal Group, wind farm, wind turbines
Posted by Java Joe on February 13, 2014 · Leave a Comment
The new generation of laser weapons are approaching the power and efficiency needed for active military use.
Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags Boeing, COLA, Congress, EA-18, F-35C, F/A-18 Super Hornet, Frank Kendall, JSF, laser weapons, Lockheed Martin, MSA, norovirus, P-8 Poseidon, sonic boom, texting while driving, USS Iwo Jima
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 Java Joe on January 9, 2014 · Leave a Comment
Congress may act this week to restore full cost-of-living adjustments for working-age retirees forcibly retired from the military for medical reasons. Restoration may be included in the omnibus spending bill.
Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags COLA, credit card fraud, drone, FOIA, furlough, hardship duty pay, MQ-4C, Navy SEALS, Northrop Grumman, Slocum Glider, Southern Maryland Sailing Foundation, Steny Hoyer, Target, UCLASS, underwater drone
Posted by Java Joe on January 2, 2014 · Leave a Comment
Federal employees will receive their first automatic pay raise in more than three years, 1 percent beginning Jan. 1.
Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags BQM-74, budget, COLA, cybersecurity, drone, drug testing, Lockheed Martin, military retirees, pay raise, synthetic marijuana, UCLASS, USS Chancellorsville
Posted by Java Joe on October 31, 2013 · Leave a Comment
Military, federal retirees and Social Security recipients will receive a COLA increase in January.
Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags Boeing, Brimstone 2, COLA, death benefits, drones, Hawkeye, Hellfire, JSOW C-1, military retirement, online war game, P-8 Poseidon, Predator, Raytheon, Southern Maryland Sailing Foundation, Super Hornet, Turkish drones, V-22 Osprey
Posted by Publisher on October 21, 2013 · Leave a Comment
Reeling with productivity losses from the shutdown and facing another sequestration hit, the Pentagon continues with plans to sell $10.8 billion in munitions to Persian Gulf allies.
Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags Beau Duarte, COLA, Concorde, cost of living adjustment, F-35, furlough, Jaime Engdahl, JSF, LiFi, primes, productivity, sequestration, Supercommittee Light, WiFi
