Posted by Java Joe on December 19, 2018 · Leave a Comment
Capping pay, scrapping aircraft, slashing benefits and a host of already discussed military and veterans program reforms reappear in this year’s CBO annual “options for reducing the deficit” report.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags CBO, Congressional Budget Office, Embraer, F/A-18, Instagram, KC-130J, Mick Mulvaney, Mulvaney, Navy SEAL Ryan Zinke, Senate Intelligence Committee, somalia, Taliban, US Mexico Border, Zinke
Posted by Java Joe on March 8, 2018 · Leave a Comment
The Navy will scrap almost 140 older Hornets and accelerate the transition to newer Super Hornets, expecting to recoup more than $850 million across five years of maintenance savings.
Posted by Java Joe on January 29, 2018 · Leave a Comment
The F-35B is taking to the skies over Bogue, North Carolina. The short-takeoff-and-vertical-landing fighter is scheduled to continue sloped surface vertical-landing tests through late February 2018.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags Adm. John Richardson, aircraft carrier, B-21 bombers, continuing resolution, F-35 Patuxent River Integrated Test Force, F/A-18, flat-tops, General Dynamics Mission Systems, government shutdown, Judge Peter Messitte, sloped landings, STOVL, USS Pueblo, VADM Richard Brown, Vietnam relations
Posted by Java Joe on September 18, 2017 · Leave a Comment
Active-duty service members are among the 143 million Americans affected by the Equifax data breach and might be more vulnerable to its potential fallout.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags Capt. Christopher Cox, data breach, DaVita, DefSec James Mattis, F-16 fighter jets, F/A-18, Lockheed Martin, military recruits, North Korea, UAS quadcopters, USS Tripoli
Posted by Java Joe on March 20, 2017 · Leave a Comment
Some Department of Defense top jobs remain unfilled two months into President Donald Trump’s administration. Supporters of Defense Secretary James Mattis hope that a top Trump aide whom they see as a roadblock for nominees will soon move on to a new role.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags Army secretary, C-130J, DefSec James Mattis, DoD, F-35, F-35 joint strike fighter, F/A-18, Leonardo-Finmeccanica, Lockheed Martin, Mark Green, Northrop Grumman, P-8A Poseidon, rex tillerson, vertical take-off
Posted by Java Joe on August 31, 2016 · Leave a Comment
Not all bad, experts say: statutory budget caps keep the brake on defense spending.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags Boeing, BRAC, budget caps, Canada, cybersecurity, defense budget, drones, F-35, F/A-18, FAA, Iran, KC-46A, MQ-9 Reaper, Pakistan, RQ-21A Blackjacks, terrorism, unmanned systems, V-22 Osprey
Posted by Java Joe on June 22, 2016 · Leave a Comment
Brexit, the UK’s possible departure from the European Union, could cause global firms, particularly defense industries, to scale back business.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags B-21, BRAC, Brexit, China, cybersecurity, defense contractors, drones, F-35, F/A-18, Israel, readiness, sequester, supercomputers, UAS, veterans preference
Posted by Publisher on April 21, 2015 · 1 Comment
Arms are likely headed to Yemen despite a UN embargo, the USS Theodore Roosevelt is headed there too.
Posted by Java Joe on December 8, 2014 · Leave a Comment
Funding restrictions for the planned Navy UCLASS program are specified in the 2015 compromise defense bill over design and mission concerns.
Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags 2015 NDAA, cloud procurement, EA-18G Growler, F/A-18, MH-60R, MQ-8C Fire Scout, NAVAIR, Northrop Grumman, Sen. Tim Kaine, UCLASS, USS Gerald Ford
Posted by Java Joe on September 29, 2014 · Leave a Comment
The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter is on track to conduct trials aboard the USS Nimitz aircraft carrier in November and could be combat ready by mid-2015.
Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags Aircraft Launch and Recovery Equipment Program Office, Blackjack UAV, cloud services, commercial drones, cybersecurity, DISA, ebola response, F-35, F/A-18, Lockheed Martin, MQ-4C Triton, P-3 Orion, undocumented military members, USS Nimitz, Valiant Shield
