Posted by Java Joe on December 18, 2013 · Leave a Comment
In a recent letter to “the people of Brazil” NSA leaker Edward Snowden offered to help that nation investigate alleged American spying but would require Brazil to provide political asylum because the US “government will continue to interfere with my ability to speak.”
Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags Baltic Sea, Brazil, Chuck Hagel, CPPD, cyber security, drones, Gary Patton, Iskander, Lockheed Martin, missiles, NATO, NSA, Russia, sexual assault, Snowden, Southern Maryland Sailing Foundation, tuition assistance, Yemen
Posted by Java Joe on December 12, 2013 · Leave a Comment
Deal would avert another government shutdown, halve sequestration cuts for the current fiscal year and fund the government through October 2015. Pentagon spending cuts scheduled for January would be avoided while Defense spending is increased by $2 billion over last year.
Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags budget, Corporate Equality Index, cyber-attack, cybersecurity, DARPA, F-35, JSF, Lockheed Martin, Man of the Year, online gaming, sequesration, sonar testing, unmanned
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 Java Joe on December 4, 2013 · Leave a Comment
Mega-rich individuals are often providers and innovators of information technology such as cyber-security, cloud computing and data mining for both commercial and federal customers.
Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags 1-percenter, AirWatch, amazon, Ashton Carter, Bezos, Biden, Blackberry, China Sea, Christine Fox, Chuck Hagel, Dabbiere, drone, dry submersible, entrepreneur, FIST2FAC, I-400, Lockheed Martin, MUOS, Octocopter, Pentagon, Prime Air, S301i, satellite, SEAL, Southern Maryland Sailing Foundation, submarine, training
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 21, 2013 · 1 Comment
Tricare healthcare center to close in the spring due to cost cutting effort. Face-to-face services will be replaced by toll-free phone and online access.
Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags Boeing, BQM-34S, BQM-74, cyber security, cyber-attack, drone, EHR, electronic health record, F-35, health care, Lockheed Martin, Maritime Surveillance, Northrop Grumman, open source software, P-8 Poseidon, Pentagon, Southern Maryland Sailing Foundation, Tricare
Posted by Java Joe on November 13, 2013 · Leave a Comment
Three very different 2014 DOD funding scenarios are still being considered a month and a half into the fiscal year.
Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags ballistic missile, Blackberry, budget, CACI, China, Congress, cybersecurity, DHS, drone, FY14, Guam, JL-2, Lockheed, Lockheed Martin, NSA, nuclear, Pentagon, Robert Hale, sequestration, unmanned aircraft, USS Theodore Roosevelt, X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System
Posted by Java Joe on October 30, 2013 · Leave a Comment
They’ve changed the way we go to war.
Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags BUPERS, cybersecurity, drones, EA-18G Growler, F-35C, F/A-18 Super Hornet, Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier, Lockheed Martin, stealth destroyer, USS Zumwalt
Posted by Publisher on October 2, 2013 · Leave a Comment
Congress keeps working. So does the military. So do essential personnel. But otherwise, the federal government is closed.
Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags Boeing, Chuck Hagel, civil war, cyber mercenary, DoD, global weather radar systems, JSF, Lockheed Martin, Maryland Health Benefits Exchange, military pay, Obamacare, Office of Management and Budget, Patuxent Partnership, South Korea, spending bill, Syria, United Nationsw, US Congress, US Senate
Posted by Publisher on September 30, 2013 · Leave a Comment
Partisanship drags US toward closure while one Democrat and two Republican governors ally to strengthen their chances for an FAA drone designation..
Category Morning Coffee · Tags BAMS, Beijing Air Show, Beltsville, civilians, Congress, Dahlgren, DARPA, F-35, FAA designation, FAA drone, Fort Belvoir, furlough, government shutdown, Joint Land Use, Joint Land Use Study, Lexington Park MD, Lockheed Martin, Maryland, New Jersey, Northrup Grumman, October 1 2013, Pax Blimp, SAIC, VH-71, Virginia
