Posted by Publisher on December 10, 2013 · Leave a Comment
Plans are for the F-35 to replace the F-18, but as important production dates approach the Navy and industry face tough and costly decisions based on projected completion dates that still look a bit iffy.
Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags $607 bilion defense spending bill, Boeing, Chuck Hagel, Cyber Gym, cyber-attack, defense spending bill, F-18, F-35, Gulf Cooperation Council, Israel, Jeff Bezo, JSF, Marine Corps, RADM Donald Gaddis, Say Kamkar, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, SkyJack, Super Hornet
Posted by Publisher on December 9, 2013 · Leave a Comment
US military technology continues to advance and the whole world wants it. Meanwhile the US military budget crumbles.
Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags Afghanistan, arms sales, F-13, Homeland Defense, JSF, Lockheed, MUOS, Netanyahu, South Korea, submarine UAS launch
Posted by Java Joe on December 5, 2013 · Leave a Comment
The House completed work months ago, but Party quarreling in the Senate continues to hold up passage of the Pentagon spending bill. Senate leaders intend to reconsider the bill next week after returning from a two week hiatus.
Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags drone, F/A-18 Hornet, Global Hawk, hackers, House of Representatives, John Boehner, JSF, Lockheed Martin, NATO, NDAA, NORAD, Northrop Grumman, Patuxent River Naval Air Museum, Pearl Harbor, RQ-4, security breach, Senate, sequestration, Southern Maryland Sailing Foundation, USS Nimitz
Posted by Publisher on December 3, 2013 · 1 Comment
No country will host the destruction of Syria’s most lethal chemical weapons, so the US is outfitting a commercial transport vessel to do the job at sea.
Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags 7th fleet, Austrialian Department ofDefense, chemical weapons at sea, Cyber Monday, drones, East China Sea, Falco, Falco drones, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, JSF, MV Cape Ray, P-8 Poseidon, P=8A Poseidon, Pacific fleet, Pakistan, Quickstep Holdings, Seizure Sunday, Syria, UN, United Nations drones, USS George Washington
Posted by Publisher on December 2, 2013 · 1 Comment
Despite escalating costs, the F-35 remains top priority to a military facing a shrinking pool of qualified engineers and a shrinking budget.
Posted by Java Joe on November 20, 2013 · Leave a Comment
The 2014 defense bill must pass by Dec. 12 to avoid a $50 billion cut hitting the Pentagon mid-January.
Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags 2014 Department of Defense Appropriations Act, benefits, Boeing, budget, C-17, compensation, Congress, EA-18, F-35, F/A-18, federal contractors, Globemaster, government shutdown, iran drone, JSF, Lockheed, MAVEN, P-8 Poseidon, Pentagon, Senate, sequesration, Veterans Benefits, veterans programs
Posted by Publisher on November 11, 2013 · Leave a Comment
Armstice Day approaches its 100th year of commemoration from the 1918 end of World War I as US involvement in Vietnam approaches its 50th anniversary in 2015.
Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags Boeing, Business Korea, College of Southern Maryland, college-southern-maryland, CSM, Early Bird, JSF, satellite communications, South Korea, Southern Maryland Sailing Foundation, Stars and Stripes, Taranis UCAS, Typhoon Haiyan, Vietnam, Vietnam War
The training aircraft crashed upon an approach to Sherman Field at NAS:Pensacola at the end of a local-area, routine flight.
Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags F-35A, F-35B, Global Hawk, Italy, JSF, NAS:Pensacola, Patuxent Partnership, South Korea, Special Ops, State Department, T45, VA, Veterans Administration
Posted by Publisher on October 29, 2013 · Leave a Comment
As the JSF undergoes increasing cost surveillance and accountability studies at home, the White House is making foreign weapon sales easier.
Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags accountability, airship, al Shabaab, blimp, drones, F-13, federal retirement, healthcare.gov, Joint Strike Fighter, JSF, jsf accountability, killer robots, military budget, moon landings, Nairobi, sequestration, somalia, weapon sales, X-47
Posted by Publisher on October 24, 2013 · Leave a Comment
It’s all about surveillance, cybersecurity and learning to thrive in a virtual world; the Navy is among the leaders.
Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags actuator, Blue Angels, Boeing, CIA, Defense Information Systems Agency, DISA, exoskeleton, hackers, ibm, JSF, Lockheed, Northop Grumman, Tri-County Department of Social Services, Triton, virtualized computing