May 2, 2024

Construction Funds to Pax in ’15 Appropriations

Maryland-based military construction projects including the Atlantic Test Range at NAS Patuxent River receive funding.

Morning Coffee: Australia F-35 Buy Boosts Program

F-35B JSF air start

“International buys could be the salvation of floundering program economics.”

Morning Coffee: 2014 Outlook for Large Contractors

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2014 will be a tough year for defense contractors, but if companies can endure the fiscal year the worst could soon be in the past.

Morning Coffee: Lockheed Again Top Contractor

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Top 200 list includes 34 local companies who pulled in 23 percent of fiscal 2013 awarded federal contract funds.

Morning Coffee: UCLASS RFP Details and Analysis

Potential Boeing UCLASS

The draft RFP is designed to generate industry input on design, development, construction and deployment.

PaxSpace Seeks Money & Members as it Grows

“It’s the love of making,” that created PaxSpace, says a founder. “We used to fix things. We use to make things.” And you can again at the new Makerspace at St. Mary’s Industrial Park in Hollywood, MD

Morning Coffee: Boeing Pushes for Growler Funding

A pair of Boeing EA-18G Growlers, XE 573 166857 and XE 571 166855 of the VX-9 "Vampires" bank over the desert.

Contractor believes the Lockheed F-35 stealth jet fighter is vulnerable to advanced radars that can’t “see” Growlers.

Morning Coffee: Wind Farm Debate Continues

Eastern Shore wind energy

The Baltimore Sun expresses its support for the proposed wind farm and advocates a “win-win” solution that also protects NAS Pax River interests.

Morning Coffee: Drone Production to Fall After 2017

Drone manufacturing will increase over the next three years before declining for the next seven as demand falls.

Morning Coffee: NAVAIR Head Seeks Contracting Reform

Vice Adm. David A. Dunaway

Vice Adm. Dunaway says overhead costs overwhelm the implementation of new technology and that there is a “stranglehold” of proprietary systems.