Posted by Java Joe on December 12, 2022 · Leave a Comment
Two US Navy Super Hornets suffered mishaps on consecutive days in November at NAS Oceana, VA.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags Army-Navy game, Basic Allowance for Subsistence, Black Hawk helicopters, Boeing, CACI Inc. Federal, Climate Action Network, Deltek, F-35A, F/A-18 Super Hornets, Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft, government contracting, off shore wind energy, PFAS, same-sex marriage, SpaceX, Starshield, Tricare Select, US Space Command, Waterkeeper Alliance
Posted by Java Joe on August 8, 2022 · Leave a Comment
The US Navy’s Training and Logistics Support Activity East officially opened last month. TALSA East is the first dedicated Navy facility for unmanned aircraft operators to complete SUAS training. The first official course in the new facility in Virginia Beach, VA, will begin August 8 for SkyRaider R80D.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags chemical threats, Deborah Rosenblum, drone strike, ejection seat, F-35A, Heath Robinson PACT Act, Hellfire R9X, John Kirby, Patrick Ryder, TASLA East, Training and Logistics Support Activity, US 3rd Fleet, USNS Comfort, VADM Michael Boyle
Posted by Java Joe on June 15, 2020 · Leave a Comment
While China builds up its military outposts in the South China Sea, putting missile and electronic warfare systems on them, the US and other allies have beefed up operations. For the first time in nearly three years, three American aircraft carriers are patrolling the Indo-Pacific waters, a massive show of naval force.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags 11th Wing, 316th Wing, base renaming, BBA3, Breeding Bird Atlas, Col. Michael McGuire, COVID-19 vaccine, defense budget, Emily Thompson, Engility Corp., F-35A, Fort Bragg, hurricane season, Jacqueline Van Ovost, Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling, Joint Base Andrews, military aviation, Pacific Deterrence Initiative, PFAs toxic chemicals, South China Sea, Styrofoam, Tyler Schaff, US Special Operations Command
Posted by Java Joe on December 5, 2019 · Leave a Comment
NASA will launch a “robot hotel” to the International Space Station on its next SpaceX resupply mission, although “robot garage” might be more like it.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags David Tepper, F-35A, I-270, Larry Hogan, NASA, Panthers, Peter Franchot, robot garage, robot hotel, Ron Rivera, SciTech Services Inc.
Posted by Java Joe on September 9, 2019 · Leave a Comment
The littoral combat ship USS Gabrielle Giffords deployed last week from San Diego packing the US Navy’s new naval strike missile. It’s headed to the Indo-Pacific theater.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags Afghanistan, Boeing, Eurofighter Typhoon, F-35A, facial recognition, Gabrielle Giffords, Hurricane Dorian, iranian drone, Littoral Combat Ship, Lockheed Martin, M1 Abrams, Mark Esper, mental illness, South China Sea, US Mexico Border, USNS Cody
Posted by Java Joe on June 3, 2019 · Leave a Comment
President Trump has ordered that carriers go back to steam catapult systems for launching aircraft, a move that could cost billions and reduce the ships’ capabilities.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags 2nd Fleet, Baltops, Dale Feddersen, Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System, EMALS, F-35A, Gen. Joseph Dunford, HX-21, Mike Pompeo, national spelling bee, Nellis AFB, Saketh Sundar, Sierra Nevada, South China Sea
Posted by Java Joe on February 28, 2019 · Leave a Comment
Air Force Gen. Terrence O’Shaughnessy told a Senate committee that he sees no military threat coming from the southern border with Mexico, but his focus is on “very real” threats from China and Russia.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags Aero India, Australian Air Force, bioengineering, Boeing, Desert Storm War Memorial, drones, F-35A, John Hyten, Lockheed Martin, Loyal Wingman, military draft, New START Treaty, space force, Terrence O'Shaughnessy, unmanned wingman, US Mexico Border, USS Donald Cook
Posted by Java Joe on December 18, 2018 · Leave a Comment
Congress has only a few days left to pass a funding package for several large federal agencies and general government appropriations to avoid a government shutdown.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags background checks, C-2A Greyhound aircraft, Coast Guard budget, cybersecurity, F-35A, Federal 100, fleet logistics squadron, government shutdown, GPS satellites, Littoral Combat Ship, Missile Defense, Presidential Rank Awards, Rolling Thunder, US Mexico Border, USS St. Louis
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
Posted by Java Joe on September 20, 2018 · Leave a Comment
The F-35A airframe tests are expected to double the life expectancy of 8,000h, but tests are showing 24,000h of service life for the stealth fighters.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags AT&T, Booz Allen Hamilton, defense intelligence agency, dia, F-35A, government shutdown, Harris Corp, Jim Mattis, KeyW Corp., Leidos Inc., Lockheed Martin Corp., Macaulay-Brown Inc., Northrop Grumman Corp., Sheppard Air Force Base, Southwest Research Institute, T-38C Talon, T-6 Texan trainer, Veterans Justice Outreach, Where's Waldo
