Posted by Java Joe on July 18, 2016 · Leave a Comment
The US Air Force might deploy the Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter to the Baltics for an air-policing role once the new stealth aircraft becomes operational later this year. The new fighter is to enter service with the Air Force with an interim software capability that offers limited combat capability.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags C-27J, F-35 joint strike fighter, Farnborough, Farnborough International Airshow, John Kerry, MQ-25A, MQ-25A Stingray, NAVAIR, Ninety Nines, P-8A Poseidon, PC-3 Orion, T-6B Texan II, Vladimir Putin
Posted by Java Joe on April 12, 2016 · Leave a Comment
A Navy P-8A crew rescued three marooned mariners from a deserted island in the Pacific Ocean. The castaways used palm fronds to spell the word “help” in the sand.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags Ash Carter, CIA Director John Brennan, human-robot trust, John Kerry, North Korea, P-8A, P-8A Poseidon, robots, South China Sea, stranded mariners, Taliban, UAS, waterboarding
Posted by Java Joe on August 10, 2015 · Leave a Comment
Lack of funding ended domestic spacecraft transport to the International Space Station. Since 2011 US crews use Russian spacecraft for transport.
Posted by Publisher on May 19, 2015 · Leave a Comment
China Russia Cyber-Pact increases tensions between China and the US.
Posted by Publisher on January 7, 2014 · Leave a Comment
Part of the Navy’s strong budget position is forward thinking cyber capabilities, cyberwarfare is seen as the nation’s most serious threat by national security leaders.
Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags BAE, cyberwarfare, Defense News poll, Iraq, John Kerry, Jonathan Greenert, Navy, Pacific pivot, Panavia Tornado GR4, Russian Navy, South China Sea, UK Royal Air Force, us cape ray
Posted by Publisher on November 12, 2013 · Leave a Comment
Increasingly complicated testing aboard carriers defines 2014 for the X-47B and increasing foreign sales of the JSF could reduce the jets’ costs.
Category Leader Features · Tags DARPA, Iran, Israel, John Kerry, Lockheed, Northrup\, pod-mounted laser, sequestration, South Korea, Southern Maryland Sailing Foundation, Steffanie Easter, USS Gerald Ford, USS Theodore Roosevelt, X-47B
Posted by Publisher on October 23, 2013 · 1 Comment
Large defense firms fared better than small firms in the first round of sequestration and small companies are urged to raise their visibility as analysts predict budget contractions will continue.
Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags Amnesty International, cybersecurity guidelines to industry, drone strike, General Dynamics, ground sensors to UAV, Human Rights Watch, John Kerry, Lockheed profits, NSA, Saudi Arabia, third quarter profits
Posted by Publisher on October 7, 2013 · Leave a Comment
Most DoD civilians return to work this week and all furloughed federal workers look to receive back pay, but industry layoffs threaten and military recovery time grows. An emerging futures market based upon government outcomes may prove the best bet in town.
Posted by Publisher on September 12, 2013 · 1 Comment
As the victims of 9/11 were remembered, Kerry prepared to meet with Russia about removing Syria’s chemical weapons without a military strike while Wall Street surges on Tomahawk missile stock.
Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags autonomous aerial refueling, Barrack Obama, Jo Ann Rooney, John Kerry, Keith Alexander, limited strike, NAVAIR, NSA, P-8 Poseidon, Russia, Russian, second-hand aircraft, Sikorsky, Syria, UCAS-D, Wall Street
Posted by Publisher on September 4, 2013 · Leave a Comment
Yeast converts waste to fuel and gives lift-off from Pax River, but a failure to reach audit-readiness brings a rebuke from the Government Accounting Office
Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags Australia, BAMS, Barrack Obama, biofuel, cybersecurity, El Centro, John Kerry, JSF, Lemoore, Louisiana, Mrtin Dempsey, Osprey, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Syria