Posted by Publisher on November 19, 2013 · Leave a Comment
Lockheed, Boeing and Northrup have designs for NASA’s supersonic plane in 2025 and DARPA has plans for a space plane even sooner.
Category Leader Features · Tags AHRN, Anonymous, Automated Housing Referall Network, Boeing, Boeing Challenger, BRAC, Challenger, DARPA, Defense Authorization Bill, domestic telephone surveillance, F-35, Gen. Martin Dempsey, India, Lockheed, NASA, Northrop, NSA, open architecture, P-8 Poseidon, precision-guided invasion, sequester, space plane
Posted by Publisher on November 18, 2013 · Leave a Comment
Navy Sec Ray Mabus agrees with Congress to heighten focus on the strike capability of the Unmanned Carrier Launched Surveillance and Strike program.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags 4000 jobs cut, atlantic media, drone, Lockheed, mabus, Marion Blakey, Mark Skinner NAVAIR, Northrop Grumman, Ray Mabus, sequestration, space commercial frontier, UCLASS, unmanned vehicle, Wounded Warrier, Yegor Bondarenko
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 Publisher on November 12, 2013 · Leave a Comment
Increasingly complicated testing aboard carriers defines 2014 for the X-47B and increasing foreign sales of the JSF could reduce the jets’ costs.
Category Leader Features · Tags DARPA, Iran, Israel, John Kerry, Lockheed, Northrup\, pod-mounted laser, sequestration, South Korea, Southern Maryland Sailing Foundation, Steffanie Easter, USS Gerald Ford, USS Theodore Roosevelt, X-47B
Posted by Java Joe on November 6, 2013 · Leave a Comment
If the Pentagon is to survive sequestration, Defense Dept. and Congress must work together: SecDef Chuck Hagel.
Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags Aegis, base closures, budget cuts, CFC, Chuck Hagel, Cyber Command, cybersecurity, Defiant, drone, E6B Mercury, Early Bird, flag officer assignments, fund raiser, JMR, Lockheed, NSA, Pax River, pensions, SB-1, Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, sequestration, Sikorsky, SR-72, UH-60, X2
Posted by Sheila Gibbons on October 28, 2013 · 1 Comment
Defense firms use multiple tactics to protect their bottom lines as shifts in funding and wish lists force rebalancing.
Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags B-1, B-15, BAE, Boeing, defense contractors, F-35, federal employees, Lockheed, sequestration, Taranis UCAV
Posted by Publisher on October 24, 2013 · Leave a Comment
It’s all about surveillance, cybersecurity and learning to thrive in a virtual world; the Navy is among the leaders.
Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags actuator, Blue Angels, Boeing, CIA, Defense Information Systems Agency, DISA, exoskeleton, hackers, ibm, JSF, Lockheed, Northop Grumman, Tri-County Department of Social Services, Triton, virtualized computing
Posted by Publisher on October 16, 2013 · Leave a Comment
As Senate leaders near an agreement to avert a debt crisis and re-open government, House Speaker John Boehner continues fighting for a GOP bill but fails to win the support he needs from Republican conservatives.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags A-7 Corsair II, aviator training, Boehner, Boeing, Brazil, budget bill, conservative Republicans, cybersecurity, F-35, Lockheed, Marine C, orps Marathon, Republican, sequster flexibility, sexual assault, South Korea, Southern Maryland Sailing Foundation
Posted by Publisher on October 8, 2013 · Leave a Comment
Returning DoD workers also reduced furloughs in defense contracting firms, but legislators appear ready to extend the spending freeze as they argue about raising the debt ceiling.
Posted by Publisher on September 11, 2013 · Leave a Comment
The White House and key security advisers have security preparations in place for 9/11 anniversaries.
