Posted by Java Joe on December 6, 2018 · Leave a Comment
Navy VADM James Malloy has landed in Bahrain on temporary duty with US 5th Fleet and US Naval Forces Central Command, after the previous commander VADM Scott Stearney was found dead in his home over the weekend from an apparent suicide.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags 5th Fleet, Army Ranger Peter Kassig, Army recruiting, Bennu, Chinese sanctions, government shutdown, ISIS, Osiris-Rex, Saudi arms deal, SpaceX, US Mexico Border, US-China trade, VADM James Malloy, VADM Scott Stearney
Posted by Java Joe on November 27, 2018 · Leave a Comment
A panel of security and budget experts believe the US Navy could be forced to make hard choices when it comes to finding the money to replace its aging ballistic missile submarines or reach its goal of having a fleet of 355 warships.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags 355-ship fleet, ballistic missile submarine program, deployable duty facility, government shutdown, GPS jamming, Navy flag officers, South Korea military exercise, submarine maintenance, UAVs, US Mexico Border, USS Ronald Reagan
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
Posted by Java Joe on February 8, 2018 · Leave a Comment
The House Armed Services Committee tells the Navy to “fix” physiological issues facing fighter jet pilots and student pilots. Hypoxia incidents have been increasing in Navy aircraft over the past decade.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags Afghan war, B-52 Stratofortress, carrier fleet, continuing resolution, DefSec James Mattis, Eagle Harbor Solutions, Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier, government shutdown, Guantanamo Bay, hypoxia, Light Attack Aircraft, rex tillerson, Taliban
Posted by Java Joe on February 5, 2018 · Leave a Comment
The first F-35B assembled outside of the US landed at NAS Patuxent River last week after completing a transatlantic flight from Cameri Air Base in Italy.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags DefSec James Mattis, F-35B, Global Heat Map, government shutdown, GPS technologies, hypoxia, Pentagon acquisition, SM-3 Block IIA missile, T-6 trainers, USS Fitzgerald, USS John S. McCain, vaping
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 January 24, 2018 · Leave a Comment
Unpredictable Pentagon spending has DoD vendors leaving the marketplace. The defense industrial base is shrinking, research and development stagnant, meaning the weapons systems of tomorrow are not being developed today.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags chemical weapons, Coast Guard radio flaws, cybersecurity, F-16 Block 70, government shutdown, iran nuclear deal, Lt. Gen. John Thompson, Penatgon spending, SpaceX, SpaceX Falcon 9, veterans homelessness, warship collisions
Posted by Java Joe on January 23, 2018 · Leave a Comment
A bipartisan group of negotiators in the Senate prevailed with leadership, trading Democratic support for ending the nearly 60-hour federal government shutdown, for a commitment by Republicans to hold a vote resolving the status of young undocumented immigrants next month.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags amazon, F-35As, government shutdown, israeli embassy, Little Rock LCS, paternity leave, South China Sea, UAS, UAS competition, USS Fitzgerald, USS John S. McCain
Posted by Java Joe on January 18, 2018 · Leave a Comment
Five Navy officers and a chief petty officer have been recommended for possible criminal charges in connection with the separate collisions of the USS John McCain and USS Fitzgerald.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags ADM Frank Caldwell, civilian contractors, Dan Jernigan, F35B, false missile warning, flu season, government shutdown, Montreal Cognitive Assessment, net neutrality, P-8 Poseidon, RADM Ronny Jackson, Son of Blackbird, SR-71 Blackbird, SR-72, US Central Command, USS Wasp
Posted by Java Joe on December 19, 2017 · Leave a Comment
Whether a shutdown is on the horizon for the holiday season, a majority of federal employees who took an anonymous online survey from Federal News Radio said their federal agencies are ready if a shutdown does happen Dec. 22.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags 2018 National Defense Authorization Act, Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, Aerion AS2, Ashley Bolden, Bluejacket of the Year, cybersecurity, F-16, F-35, government shutdown, Maj. Gen. Christopher Cavoli, national security strategy, salary freeze, UFOs, US Army Europe, V-280 Valor
