Posted by Sheila Gibbons on September 26, 2013 · Leave a Comment
It’s a nail-biter as decision on keeping government open is certain to go down to the wire.
Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags arms treaty, Boeing, China, college-southern-maryland, contractor security clearances, debt ceiling, F-35, government shutdown, Lockheed Martin, sole-source contracts
Posted by Sheila Gibbons on September 19, 2013 · Leave a Comment
Budget squeeze laying groundwork for strategic failures, JCS say, as cost-cutting cooperation gets under way elsewhere for F-35 program.
Posted by Publisher on June 24, 2013 · Leave a Comment
Video of the F-35C arriving at Elgin Air Force Base, but the price tag is giving international buyers the jitters. GE Aviation could be cutting costs with its new aircraft engine from a 3D printer.
Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags 3D printer, aircraft engine 3D printer, Boeing, China, contractor executive pay, cybertheft, EADS, Elgin Air Force Base, Eurofighter Typhoon, F-15 Silent Eagle, F-35C, JSF, Lockheed Martin, Paris airshow, Ray Mabus, S. Korea, UCLASS
Posted by Publisher on June 12, 2013 · Leave a Comment
Contractor wages catch Senate budgeting attention again as security clearance questions fill both chambers. Next Fire Scout moves forward.
Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags al-Qaeda, citizen surveillance, Defense Appropriations Bill, defense budget, disclose security requests, F-35, Fire Scout, Google, hagel, Judicial Watch, Lockheed Martin, PRISM, security clearance, sequestration, sexual assault prosecution, STEM
Posted by Publisher on June 10, 2013 · Leave a Comment
Despite reductions elsewhere, a month of achievements and cost savings is good news for the JSF. It’s more of a mixed bag for cyber-security.
Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags air to air missile launch, CIA, cyber-attack, cyber-defense, cybersecurity, cyberwarfare, defense budget bill, Facebook, furloughs, hagel, HASC, Helms, Jim Sanborn, JSF, JSF air missile launch, Kryptos Sculpture Code, Lockheed Martin, Mark Zuckerman, McCaskill, PRISM, Susan Helms
Posted by Publisher on May 20, 2013 · Leave a Comment
Sexual assault expected to drag into Congressional discussions of Defense budget authorization.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags budget battle, cost estimates, cyber security, furloughs, intentional departure, Lockheed Martin, missle launchers, mobile missile launchers Navy UCLASS, Morning Coffee, naval weapons, Navy undersecretary, North Korea, sequstration, underwater opitcs, veritcal launch
Posted by Sheila Gibbons on April 25, 2013 · Leave a Comment
Significant reduction to UAV funding is expected even as investment is encouraged in “thrust” areas
Posted by Editor on April 9, 2013 · Leave a Comment
Lockheed debuts images of its competitor to Northrop Grumman’s X-47B.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags budget, COMFRC, contracts, drones, F-35B, F-35C, Joint Strike Fighter, Lockheed Martin, NAVAIR, Northrop Grumman, Patuxent Partnership, Pentagon, Sea Ghost, X-47B
Posted by Editor on March 26, 2013 · Leave a Comment
Maryland Senator believes it will be tough to reverse the automatic cuts this year.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags contracts, Jesse McCurdy, L-3 Communications, Lockheed Martin, NAVAIR, P-8A Poseidon, Raytheon, Rear Adm. Gordon D. Peters, Sen. Ben Cardin, sequestration, UCLASS
Posted by Editor on March 21, 2013 · Leave a Comment
The House must now approve Senate amendments and forward the bill to Obama to avoid a shutdown.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags Adm. William McRaven, aircraft carrier, CACI, Commissioner Todd Morgan, continuing resolution, contracts, F-18 Hornet, Joint Strike Fighter, Lockheed Martin, NAVAIR, Rockwell Collins, Sikorsky