Posted by Java Joe on February 11, 2020 · Leave a Comment
DefSec Mark Esper says he is committed to a bigger, but much lighter, naval force. He lays out the steps on how the Navy can reach the 355-ship fleet goal.
Posted by Java Joe on June 17, 2019 · Leave a Comment
The House Armed Services Committee passed a $733 billion defense policy bill.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags Boeing 737Max, chemical weapons, Clay Mitchell, counterterrorism, defense budget, Erdogan, GalacticSky, Guy Roberts, Horn of Africa, Iran, Libya, Lockheed Martin, Michael Turello, MQ9 Reaper, Naval Research Laboratory, nuclear warheads, Resource Management Concepts, Russian S-400, SmartSat, space force, Technical Data Analysis, Turkey F-35, Vector Launch
Posted by Java Joe on March 4, 2019 · Leave a Comment
The Pentagon wants to retire the Nimitz-class carrier USS Harry Truman two decades early, which would cut the US aircraft carrier fleet from 11 to 10.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags anthropomorphic test device, defense budget, drones, F-35, Falcon 9, HH-60W helicopters, P-8A Poseidon, Precise Systems, Singapore armed forces, Smartronix, South China Sea, South Korea military exercise, SpaceX Crew Dragon, tuition assistance for vets, UCAV, USS Harry Truman
Posted by Java Joe on December 11, 2018 · Leave a Comment
The Navy plans to deactivate the Grim Reapers of Strike Fighter Squadron 101 at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida, consolidating JSF operations NAS Lemoore on the West Coast.
Posted by Java Joe on December 4, 2018 · Leave a Comment
Americans have begun saying goodbye to former President George H.W. Bush as his body arrived in Washington, DC, for public viewing in the US Capitol Rotunda.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags 5th Fleet, Afghanistan war, Amazon cloud computing, Boko Haram, DARPA, defense budget, drones in Nigeria, exoskeleton technology, International Space Station, Lt. Col. Ann McClain, President George H.W. Bush, Reagan National Defense Forum, underwater drones, VADM Scott Stearney
Posted by Java Joe on November 20, 2018 · Leave a Comment
Lockheed Martin’s experimental supersonic plane has officially entered production. Earlier this year, NASA awarded the company a contract to develop an aircraft capable of reaching supersonic speed without creating the sonic boom that comes with breaking the sound barrier.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags Antares rocket, Australia F-35, B-21 bombers, climate change, defense budget, Deputy DefSec Patrick Shanahan, DoD audit, Gen. Joseph Dunford, Great Britain F-35, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Space X Falcon 9, SpaceX, supersonic aircraft, trade war, Turkey F-35, Wallops Flight Facility
Posted by Java Joe on November 13, 2018 · Leave a Comment
The US signed off on arms exports worth $192.3 billion over the past year, a 13 percent increase from the previous year.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags Daniel MacInnis, defense budget, Electric Boat, F-35A, foreign arms sales, Mark J. Mouriski, MK-62 Quickstrikes, MQ-8 Fire Scout, MQ-9 Reapers, Next Generation Jammer, nuclear north korea, sequestration
Do bigger deficits mean disaster ahead? How long will it be before federal spending on interest payments exceeds the defense budget? Find out Sept. 6 when Dr. Dan Crippen speaks at a Patuxent Partnership program at St. Mary’s College of Maryland.
Category Leader Features · Tags Bonnie Green, Center for the Study of Democracy, Center for the Study of Democracy at St. Mary’s College of Maryland, defense budget, Donny Bryan, Dr. Dan Crippen, Joseph Dyer, Patuxent Partnership, Pax partnership, The Patuxent Partnership, TPP
Posted by Java Joe on June 28, 2017 · Leave a Comment
NASA says the launch of the Terrier-Improved Malemute sounding rocket is now scheduled for early Thursday morning, June 29, with a launch window between 4:15 and 4:45 am. This will be the 11th time the launch has been attempted at the Wallops Flight Facility. Southern Maryland skies are in the launch’s viewing range.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags ballistic missile intercept, chemical weapons, defense budget, GPS III satellite, IIAP World Services Inc., John E. Burdette Memorial Award, Lauren Boden, NASA launch, Scorpion, sounding rocket, Syrian air strikes, Thomas Bowman, USS Fitzgerald, Wallops Flight Facility
Posted by Java Joe on May 22, 2017 · Leave a Comment
The Next Generation Jammer program has passed its design review during recent testing at NAS Pax River, NAVAIR officials say.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags ALQ, defense budget, DefSec James Mattis, drones, exoskeleton technology, F-35, federal budget, Heather Wilson, NASA, Next Generation Jammer, North Korea missile launch, Saudi arms deal, Wallops Flight Facility, Wallops Island
