Posted by Java Joe on August 6, 2019 · Leave a Comment
The Billings, a Freedom-class littoral combat ship, was commissioned in a Saturday ceremony in Key West, FL. The warship is named after Montana’s largest city.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags Adiz, Air Force One, Billings LCS, hypersonic arms race, hypersonic cruise missile, LCS, Lockheed Martin, Mark Esper, Navy football, Nice Bridge, NORAD, Northrop Grumman, RADM Stephen Williamson, Raytheon, RQ-4 Global Hawk, russian aircraft, ShadowObjects LLC, UH-60 Black Hawks, war remains
Posted by Java Joe on July 15, 2019 · Leave a Comment
A celebration of the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11 will include the projection of a full-sized, 363-foot Saturn V rocket onto the Washington Monument for three nights this week.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags 5G, Apollo 11, Army Alaska, carnivorous plant, David Berger, Lockheed Martin, Mark Esper, MQ-8C Fire Scout, Northrop Grumman, Sikorsky, South Korea F-35, US Army North, VADM Michael Gilday
Posted by Java Joe on June 19, 2019 · Leave a Comment
Acting DefSec Patrick Shanahan’s bid to become defense secretary has been withdrawn. Reports are that he is resigning after scrutiny over a domestic fight with his wife in 2010.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags Black Hornet mini-drones, Boeing P-8A, cybersecurity, early retirement, House Homeland Security Committee, ICE, Inmarsat Government Inc., Jeffrey Harley, Mark Esper, Naval War College, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, Shannon Kent, Shoshana Chatfield, Turkey TF-X fighter, United Technologies
Posted by Java Joe on May 30, 2019 · Leave a Comment
The Department of Homeland Security issued an alert on Chinese drones, which could pose security risks, including data theft. Most drones purchased in the US are manufactured in China.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags CGX, Chinese drones, Coast Guard Exchanges, Dept Homeland Security, DHS, drones, Duncan Hunter, Edward Gallagher, Einstein, Emergent LLC, Northrop Grumman, Seth Moulton, Typhoon jets
Posted by Java Joe on May 29, 2019 · Leave a Comment
Despite Congressional objections, the Trump administration cleared $8.1 billion in arms sales for Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and the United Arab Emirates by invoking an emergency exemption.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags Bill oran, Bob Burke, Compliance Corp., Condor, James McConville, Joint Precision Approach and Landing System, Jordan, JPALS, Lockheed Martin, Middle East, Northrop Grumman, Patrick Shanahan, quals, Raytheon, Saudi Arabia, Stephen Kellogg, UAS, United Arab Emirates, Yokosuka
Posted by Java Joe on February 4, 2019 · Leave a Comment
The US Navy’s first female jet pilot, Rosemary Mariner, died last week. She was 65.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags F-25, Ford-class carrier, Littoral Combat Ships, MQ-8B, MQ-8C Fire Scout, NAWCAD, Northrop Grumman, Rosemary Mariner, suicide, Tornado fleet, US Mexico Border
Posted by Java Joe on January 16, 2019 · Leave a Comment
Long in coming, but now that it has arrived, the F35 fighter jet is winning over pilots and spectators with its death defying capabilities.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit, Adm. John Richardson, Andrew Dojo Olson, Anthony Brown, AV-8B Harrier, BAE, F35, F35A, Fitzgerald, Lockhee, Marylanders, Northrop Grumman, RADM Brian Fort, Raytheon, Sikorsky
Posted by Java Joe on January 1, 2019 · Leave a Comment
End-of-the-year Department of Defense contracts have been awarded in the Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, DC, region.
Posted by Java Joe on November 20, 2018 · Leave a Comment
Lockheed Martin’s experimental supersonic plane has officially entered production. Earlier this year, NASA awarded the company a contract to develop an aircraft capable of reaching supersonic speed without creating the sonic boom that comes with breaking the sound barrier.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags Antares rocket, Australia F-35, B-21 bombers, climate change, defense budget, Deputy DefSec Patrick Shanahan, DoD audit, Gen. Joseph Dunford, Great Britain F-35, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Space X Falcon 9, SpaceX, supersonic aircraft, trade war, Turkey F-35, Wallops Flight Facility
Posted by Java Joe on October 18, 2018 · Leave a Comment
Drones are already changing the battlefield and impacting US strategy. Increased robotic controls of drones will likely also reduce the human footprint of counterinsurgency as the technology advances.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags Blue Origin, Booz Allen Hamilton, Capt. Jack Killman, drones, Gen Alireza Tangsiri, General Atomics Reaper, Iran, Iranian drones, Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy, Northrop Grumman, Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems, Raytheon, SEFIAM 1602, South Korea, SpaceX, Turgis et Gaillard Industri, Ukraine
