Posted by Java Joe on February 26, 2014 · Leave a Comment
Job-security concerns may compound pressures already producing record behavioral and physical health issues.
Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags budget, contractors, DARPA, drone, EA-6B Prowler, guided missile, Hellfire, K-MAX, layoffs, LCS, Lockheed Martin, NAVAIR, Northrop Grumman, Raynaud, Spike, UAV
Posted by Java Joe on February 20, 2014 · Leave a Comment
Increased spending will be aimed at improving cyber capabilities including cyber security, intelligence gathering, and reconnaissance.
Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags 2015 budget, Afghanistan, AIM-120, Brimstone, Chuck Hagel, cyber security, drone, F-22, F-35, F/A-18 Super Hornet, Lockheed Martin, missile, Reaper, Saildrone, UAV, USS Forrestal, USS Taylor
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 29, 2014 · Leave a Comment
The future of Sikorsky, America’s leading helicopter maker, is being evaluated by its parent company.
Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags 21st Century Sailors Office, BAE Systems, Boeing, Chuck Hagel, DARPA, drone, drone medals, F-15 Silent Eagle, F-35 Lightning, F/A-18 Hornet, F/A-18 Super Hornet, Joint Strike Fighter, Lockheed Martin, military compensation, Northrop Grumman, Sikorsky, South Korea, USS George Washington, UTC
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 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 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 Publisher on December 31, 2013 · Leave a Comment
Formal collaborative agreements among between Virginia Tech, Rutgers and the University of Maryland System could retain Southern Maryland sites as potential testing arenas for commercializing unmanned aviation systems.
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 Java Joe on December 5, 2013 · Leave a Comment
The House completed work months ago, but Party quarreling in the Senate continues to hold up passage of the Pentagon spending bill. Senate leaders intend to reconsider the bill next week after returning from a two week hiatus.
Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags drone, F/A-18 Hornet, Global Hawk, hackers, House of Representatives, John Boehner, JSF, Lockheed Martin, NATO, NDAA, NORAD, Northrop Grumman, Patuxent River Naval Air Museum, Pearl Harbor, RQ-4, security breach, Senate, sequestration, Southern Maryland Sailing Foundation, USS Nimitz
