Posted by Java Joe on October 16, 2018 · Leave a Comment
The Department of Homeland Security and the FBI said drones are one of the greatest national security threats to America, rating them as severe a concern as cybersecurity hacks, critical infrastructure attacks, and terrorism.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags aircraft readiness, cyber breach, drones, F-35s, Harris, Hurricane Michael, L3 Communications, Lockheed Martin, Lockheed Starliner, lunar lander, Saudi Arabia weapons sale, space fence, Vietnam
Posted by Java Joe on October 2, 2018 · Leave a Comment
DoD’s chief information officer told a Senate committee last week that the Defense Department lost thousands of civilian cyber workers in the past year, mainly in IT management and computer science-related positions.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags Arctic Strategy plan, defense spending bill, DoD cyber workers, HMS Queen Elizabeth, Joseph Rank, Lockheed Martin, Mason-Dixon poll, NAVAIR blockchain project, RQ-4E Euro Hawk, South China Sea, Three Notch Trail, UK's F-35B
“Naval Aviation Agility and Lethality in Contested Environments” will be the topic of the next panel presented by The Patuxent Partnership and the Association of Naval Aviation. The event will be held 5 to 7 pm Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2018, at the Patuxent River Naval Air Museum in Lexington Park.
Category Leader Features · Tags Association of Naval Aviation’s Squadron #18, Bonnie Green, CAPT Craig Grubb, Daniel Nega, David Kindley, Lockheed Martin, Michael Wojse, Patuxent Partnership, Pax partnership, The Patuxent Partnership, Tony Schmidt, TPP
Posted by Java Joe on September 25, 2018 · Leave a Comment
Canada plans to close a deal by the end of this year to purchase 25 used F/A-18A/B Hornets from Australia.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags aerial refueling, Big Falcon Rocket, Center for Strategic & International Studies, Combined Federal Campaign, F/A-18 Hornets, Hurricane Florence, Jeff Bezos, KC-Z tanker, Lockheed Martin, military sexual assault, Skunk Works, space force, SpaceX, T-6 Texan trainer, UCAVs, VA budget
Posted by Java Joe on August 23, 2018 · Leave a Comment
An IG report found VA officials improperly denied benefits to thousands of military sexual assault victims. The department will review all denied military sexual trauma claims from October 2016 forward.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags Alnic MC, Coherent Technical Services, Facebook, FEDVIP, GPS III satellite, International Atomic Energy Agency, Lockheed Martin, McCain, military sexual assault, NASA, North Korea, Russia, S-400 missile, Tricare, Turkey, Twitter, VA, veteran affairs, zumwalt
Posted by Java Joe on July 31, 2018 · Leave a Comment
DefSec Jim Mattis said that relations between the US and North Korea may be warming to the point that US forces could be allowed to return there to find more war remains of US servicemembers.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags 7th fleet, Boeing, border wall, Cyber X-Games, cyber-espionage, DoD software vendors, F-22 Raptor, F-35, Lockheed Martin, Maj. Gen. Samuel C. Mahaney, pilot retention, war remains
Posted by Java Joe on June 11, 2018 · Leave a Comment
President Donald Trump arrived in Singapore on Sunday for a historic summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un that could lay the groundwork for ending a nuclear stand-off between the old foes.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags AIRWorks, F-22 Raptors, F35B, foreign arms sales, hypersonic weapons, Littoral Combat Ships, Lockheed Martin, Mark Esper, NATO, North Korean summit, Six3 Advanced Systems, underwater data centers
Posted by Java Joe on June 5, 2018 · Leave a Comment
The F-22 Raptor has deployed to the Pacific as part of a theater security mission, swapping in for the Air Force’s F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags BAE Systems, Booz Allen Hamilton, Expedition 60/61, F-22 Raptor, F-35, FFG(X), Fincantieri, frigate Alpino, German drones, Lockheed Martin, MQ-9 Reapers, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, Senate defense policy bill, Top Gun
Posted by Java Joe on April 24, 2018 · Leave a Comment
President Trump signed a memorandum late last week that revises rules for export of military drones, including big target and long-range reconnaissance drones such as the Predator and Reaper aircraft.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags airmen retention, Boeing, drones, F-15 fighter, Lockheed Martin, military drone exports, Mira Ricardel, South China Sea, Space-X, The KeyW Corp., Truman Carrier Strike Group, United Launch Alliance, USS Harry S. Truman, Vietnam Pilot and Crewmember Monument
Posted by Java Joe on April 12, 2018 · Leave a Comment
Sikorsky is four years into its $1.2 billion contract to replace the president’s helicopter fleet with its VH-92A in 2019.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags drones, F-35, Lockheed Martin, Marine One, poison gas, presidential helicopter, Sea-Air-Space, Syria, VA, Veterans Administration, VH-92A