Posted by Java Joe on June 10, 2024 · Leave a Comment
US House lawmakers want to allocate more than $1.3 billion for the Pentagon’s Defense Innovation Unit, part of a continued push by Congress to develop commercial technology at a faster pace.
Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags Booz Allen, Charles, defense budget, Defense Innovation Unit, DIU, electric air taxi, Firefly Aerospace, Lockheed Martin, Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division, Poplar Island, SBIR, Small Business Innovation Research, STTR, TEDCO, VA SEC Denis McDonough
Posted by Java Joe on July 3, 2023 · Leave a Comment
Military service academies are exempt from the US Supreme Court’s recent ruling on affirmative action that effectively ends that policy at the country’s colleges and universities.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags ATARS, augmented reality, Boeing P-8A Poseidon, Firefly Aerospace, Fort Bliss, James Muldoon, James P. Isenhower III, Lockheed Martin, Navy recruiting, Next Generation Jammer Mid-Band, Red 6, T-7 Red Hawk, Titan submersible, US Coast Guard Foundation, WalletHub
Posted by Java Joe on September 8, 2021 · Leave a Comment
Naval Health Clinic Patuxent River will be hosting mass vaccination clinics Sept. 8-17 to meet the new requirement that all service members be vaccinated against COVID-19.
Posted by Java Joe on September 7, 2021 · Leave a Comment
The Federal Aviation Administration has released a report on incidents involving lasers being pointed at aircraft across the US from 2010 to 2020. Yearly reports of lasers being aimed at aircraft topped out at 7,398 in 2016, dropping to 5,663 by 2018, but has been steadily increasing since then.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags air-launched UAV, American Systems, Arthur Gregg, FAA laser incidents, Firefly Aerospace, Fort Lee, GEN Glenn VanHerck, KBR Services LLC, Lockheed Martin, St. John Properties, US Northern Command, USS Lyndon B. Johnson, vaccinations
Posted by Java Joe on August 31, 2021 · Leave a Comment
America’s 20-year war ended as the last plane with US troop left Afghanistan at about 3:29 pm Monday.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags Afghanistan, C-RAM, Firefly Aerospace, Ida, JADC2, John Kirby, Niels Olson, Preston Dunlap, PteroDynamics, Rocket Labs, Uplift In-Powerment, VTOL aircraft, Xavier Bruce
Posted by Java Joe on December 3, 2018 · Leave a Comment
It’s a tall order from DefSec Jim Mattis, but the US needs more F-35s in the air. Ellen Lord, under secretary of defense for acquisition and sustainment, says they’ll get it done.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags Apache AH-64E, Arctic patrols, asbestos, Astrobotic, Deep Space Systems, Draper, Ellen Lord, F-35s, FDR Boulevard Lexington Park, Firefly Aerospace, Intuitive Machines, Japanese F-35A, Lockheed Martin, Masten Space Systems, Moon Express, NASA research, Orbit Beyond, space force, US Mexico Border
