Posted by Java Joe on July 27, 2023 · Leave a Comment
The General Services Administration released FY22’s financial commitments federal agencies made to their top 100 contractors. As in past years, Lockheed won more than anyone else, $47.7 billion – nearly as much as the next two combined: Raytheon scored $27 billion and General Dynamics at $24.7 billion.
Posted by Java Joe on July 3, 2023 · Leave a Comment
Military service academies are exempt from the US Supreme Court’s recent ruling on affirmative action that effectively ends that policy at the country’s colleges and universities.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags ATARS, augmented reality, Boeing P-8A Poseidon, Firefly Aerospace, Fort Bliss, James Muldoon, James P. Isenhower III, Lockheed Martin, Navy recruiting, Next Generation Jammer Mid-Band, Red 6, T-7 Red Hawk, Titan submersible, US Coast Guard Foundation, WalletHub
Posted by Java Joe on June 19, 2023 · Leave a Comment
The 2023 Paris Air Show opens today. Among the US military aircraft on display will be the F-25, F-15E, and F-16. Here, an Air Force F-15 and two F-35s in a training exercise May 17. (US Air National Guard photo by Staff Sgt. Penny Snoozy) Morning Coffee is a robust blend of links to news around the internet concerning the Naval Air Station Patuxent River economic community. The opinions expressed here do not reflect opinions of the Leader’s owners or staff. The Paris Air Show opens this week after a four-year hiatus. At this event, all things global aviation take…
Category Morning Coffee · Tags Aarok UAS, ADC Connect, Amentum Services, Association of Defense Communities, F-22 Raptors, foreign investment, foreign military sales, Lindsey Streeter, Lockheed Martin, MALE drone, Mike Rogers (R-AL), military retirees, MQ-4C Triton, Northrop Grumman, paris air show, Quality of Life Panel
The Patuxent Partnership will present its 2023 Defense Summit on Naval Aviation and National Security on June 21 at the University System of Maryland at Southern Maryland.
Category Leader Exclusives, Leader Features · Tags Boeing, Bonnie Green, Lockheed Martin, MIL Corporation, Patuxent Partnership, Pax partnership, Steve Cricchi, The Patuxent Partnership, Tom Rudowsky, TPP, VADM Carl Chebi
Posted by Java Joe on April 24, 2023 · Leave a Comment
The Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities was told last week that none of the more than 650 unexplained anomalous phenomena, or UAP, incidents under investigation since the Pentagon’s All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office’s July 2022 inception were of an alien nature.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags building excise tax ordinance, Cara Abercrombie, Charlotte Hall Veterans Home, Chinese aggression, F-35, food safety, Fort Detrick, Joint Base Andrews, Kevin Odlum, Lockheed Martin, Maryland Innovation Lab, RADM Yvette Davids, Raytheon, Scott Ostrow, UFOs, US Naval Academy
Posted by Java Joe on March 20, 2023 · Leave a Comment
Maryland lawmakers and advocates are concerned about reports of neglect and abuse of residents at the Charlotte Hall Veterans Home, a disclosure that led the state to cancel its contract with HMR Maryland, the company that has managed the facility since 2002.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags American Defense Communities, Blue Angels, Charlotte Hall Veterans Home, Chesapeake Technologies, cold spray technology, Curtis Beulah, Fat Leonard, Fleet Readiness Center East, Ignite, Indyne Inc., Lockheed Martin, LT Amanda Lee, military suicides, MQ-9 Reaper, QinetiQ Inc., SSPARS, STEM
Posted by Java Joe on March 6, 2023 · Leave a Comment
The F-35 Joint Program Office has ordered that all F-35 jets should be retrofitted with a fix intended to solve a potential engine vibration problem. This includes a global retrofit, not just for US aircraft.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags 18F/A-18E/F Super Hornet, CAE USA Inc., CAPT Stephen Bowen, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, E-7A Wedgetail, F-35, Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, Larry Hogan, Lockheed Martin, Medal of Honor, Naval Air Systems Command, P-8 Poseidon, P-8A, SpaceX, Ukraine, US Cyber Command, Veronica Johnson, WalletHub
Posted by Java Joe on February 27, 2023 · Leave a Comment
Naval Air Forces investigators found that pilot error caused an F-35C Lightning II fighter jet to crash onto the deck of the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson before sliding into the South China Sea last year. The error “was not conducted in a reckless manner nor with malicious intent,” according to the Naval Air Forces Command.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags 5G, BAE Systems, Boeing, C-130, F-35C crash, F/A-18 Super Hornet, Hardware Open Systems Technology HOST, IDEX defense expo, Jonathan Ortega, Juniper Networks, Lockheed Martin, mental health, NAVAIR PMA-209, Outlying Field Webster, rear admiral promotions, Servicemembers’ Group Life Insurance, Ukraine
Posted by Java Joe on January 2, 2023 · Leave a Comment
These end-of-the-year Department of Defense contracts were awarded in Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, DC, from December 27-December 30, 2022.
Posted by Java Joe on December 15, 2022 · Leave a Comment
More than half of the Pentagon’s yearly budget goes to private contractors. In 2021, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Raytheon, General Dynamics, and Northrop Grumman received over $116 billion in Pentagon contracts while paying their top two dozen executives a total of $287 million. The CEOs of the top five contractors received compensation ranging from $18 million to $23 million each.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags Alexey Brayman, Boeing, Daniel Edmund Duggan, Gazprom, General Dynamics, iWorks Corp., Lawrence Livermore National Lab, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, Vadim Yermolenko