Posted by Java Joe on September 3, 2019 · Leave a Comment
Congress and the White House are working to fill senior vacancies at the Pentagon. Five nominees will face Senate hearings in the coming weeks, while eight are undergoing White House vetting, DefSec Mark Esper says.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags Afghanistan, artificial intelligence, C-2A Greyhound, Gen Jay Raymond, hypersonic weapons, IAP World Services, Jamie Gillan, Lockheed Martin, Lt. Gen. James Dickinson, solar projects, US Space Command
Posted by Java Joe on August 6, 2019 · Leave a Comment
The Billings, a Freedom-class littoral combat ship, was commissioned in a Saturday ceremony in Key West, FL. The warship is named after Montana’s largest city.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags Adiz, Air Force One, Billings LCS, hypersonic arms race, hypersonic cruise missile, LCS, Lockheed Martin, Mark Esper, Navy football, Nice Bridge, NORAD, Northrop Grumman, RADM Stephen Williamson, Raytheon, RQ-4 Global Hawk, russian aircraft, ShadowObjects LLC, UH-60 Black Hawks, war remains
Posted by Java Joe on August 5, 2019 · Leave a Comment
The F-35 Lightning II program completes testing on an improved lighting assembly with the KC-135 that will enable F-35 variants to refuel behind the tanker at night.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags Afghanistan war, Cambridge Analytica, Edwards Air Force Base, F-35, Facebook, Fleet Ballistic Missile, Florida Tech, Jeff Blackstock, KC-135, Lockheed Martin, NAVAIR, Tom Rudowsky, US Special Operations Command, VADM Michael Gilday
Posted by Java Joe on July 22, 2019 · Leave a Comment
Turkey has asked the US to reverse its decision to exclude that country from F-35 fighter jet program.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags Arctic, Capt. David Kindley, Capt. Jason Denney, combat readiness, cyber alert, FaceApp, Jim Lovell, Lockheed Martin, NATO, plasma laser balls, PMA-265, RAF Molesworth, SIGAR, Top Gun, Turkey F-35, VADM Michael Gilday
Posted by Java Joe on July 16, 2019 · Leave a Comment
Air Force Lt. Gen. Eric Fick assumed the watch from VADM Mat Winter as the program executive officer for the F-35 program in a ceremony last week in Washington, DC.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags CH-53E Super Stallion, cybersecurity, EA-18G Growler, Eric Fick, F-35 program, GI Bill benefits, Lockheed Martin, Mallows Bay, NDAA, PFAs toxic chemicals, Russian S-400, shipwrecks, Sikorsky, VADM Mat Winter, water contamination
Posted by Java Joe on July 15, 2019 · Leave a Comment
A celebration of the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11 will include the projection of a full-sized, 363-foot Saturn V rocket onto the Washington Monument for three nights this week.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags 5G, Apollo 11, Army Alaska, carnivorous plant, David Berger, Lockheed Martin, Mark Esper, MQ-8C Fire Scout, Northrop Grumman, Sikorsky, South Korea F-35, US Army North, VADM Michael Gilday
Posted by Java Joe on June 25, 2019 · Leave a Comment
President Donald Trump says he intends to nominate Mark Esper as the new defense secretary, David Norquist as the deputy defense secretary, and Ryan McCarthy as the Army secretary.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags 9/11 GI Bill education benefits, AAR, Cherokee Nation, Daniel Inouye, David Bellon, David Norquist, drone attack, General Atomics, Iran, John Bolton, Lockheed Martin, Mark Esper, Matthew Donovan, MQ-9B SkyGuardian, Nasatka Barrier Inc., Robert Friend, Ryan McCarthy, Space Development Agency, space force, Tuskegee Airman, UH-1 Iroquois, US Marine Corps Forces North
Posted by Java Joe on June 18, 2019 · Leave a Comment
The US is expected to have the largest international presence at the Paris Air Show that kicked off Monday. More than 2,400 companies from 49 countries will be exhibiting at the show.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags arms race in space, Baltops, European Union, Littoral Combat Ships, Lockheed Martin, MQ-9 Reaper, Nancy Pelosi, NASA, paris air show, plant closing, Sikorsky, South China Sea, tanker attacks, Xi Jinping
Naval Systems Inc. has been named Member of the Year by The Patuxent Partnership for 2018.
Category Pax River News · Tags Avian LLC, Aviation Systems Engineering Company, Bert Johnston, Bonnie Green, Ed Rule, HTii, Lockheed Martin, Naval Systems Inc., Northrop Grumman Corporation, NSI, Patuxent Partnership, Pax partnership, Raytheon, Sabre Systems, The Patuxent Partnership, Thomas Modly, TPP, TPP Member of the Year
Posted by Java Joe on June 17, 2019 · Leave a Comment
The House Armed Services Committee passed a $733 billion defense policy bill.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags Boeing 737Max, chemical weapons, Clay Mitchell, counterterrorism, defense budget, Erdogan, GalacticSky, Guy Roberts, Horn of Africa, Iran, Libya, Lockheed Martin, Michael Turello, MQ9 Reaper, Naval Research Laboratory, nuclear warheads, Resource Management Concepts, Russian S-400, SmartSat, space force, Technical Data Analysis, Turkey F-35, Vector Launch
