Posted by Java Joe on February 26, 2014 · Leave a Comment
Job-security concerns may compound pressures already producing record behavioral and physical health issues.
Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags budget, contractors, DARPA, drone, EA-6B Prowler, guided missile, Hellfire, K-MAX, layoffs, LCS, Lockheed Martin, NAVAIR, Northrop Grumman, Raynaud, Spike, UAV
Posted by Sheila Gibbons on February 4, 2014 · Leave a Comment
Focus is on budgets, as U.S. defense sales slip yet again and Pentagon struggles to rein in spending.
Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags arms sales, Britain, China, DARPA, defense spending, France, Japan, Missile Defense, Northrop Grumman, X-47B
Posted by Java Joe on January 29, 2014 · Leave a Comment
The future of Sikorsky, America’s leading helicopter maker, is being evaluated by its parent company.
Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags 21st Century Sailors Office, BAE Systems, Boeing, Chuck Hagel, DARPA, drone, drone medals, F-15 Silent Eagle, F-35 Lightning, F/A-18 Hornet, F/A-18 Super Hornet, Joint Strike Fighter, Lockheed Martin, military compensation, Northrop Grumman, Sikorsky, South Korea, USS George Washington, UTC
Posted by Java Joe on January 9, 2014 · Leave a Comment
Congress may act this week to restore full cost-of-living adjustments for working-age retirees forcibly retired from the military for medical reasons. Restoration may be included in the omnibus spending bill.
Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags COLA, credit card fraud, drone, FOIA, furlough, hardship duty pay, MQ-4C, Navy SEALS, Northrop Grumman, Slocum Glider, Southern Maryland Sailing Foundation, Steny Hoyer, Target, UCLASS, underwater drone
Posted by Java Joe on January 8, 2014 · Leave a Comment
A full fiscal 2014 Pentagon spending bill will be included in a compromise measure that must pass before next Tuesday night to avert a gov. shutdown.
Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags BAE, Boeing, DoD budget, drone, F-35, F/A-18 Super Hornet, Global Hawk, K-MAX, Lockheed Martin, MQ-1, MV-22 Osprey, Northrop Grumman, Pentagon, Predator, same sex spouse, Tricare, UCLASS
Posted by Publisher on December 23, 2013 · Leave a Comment
The bi-partisan budget bill on its way toward final approval makes big winners of big defense contractors, especially in aerospace and arms. Investors can expect a happy new year.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags Barack Obama, Boeing, General Dynamics, JSF, Lockheed, Northrop Grumman, RAND Corp, Raytheon, South Korea, super-stealth drone, X-47
Posted by Java Joe on December 11, 2013 · Leave a Comment
The new stealth drone may be twice the size of Lockheed Martin’s RQ-170 Sentinel drone which makes it large enough to conduct operations as an unmanned stealth bomber, although spying is likely the aircraft’s main mission.
Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags Area 51, Boeing, drone, federal contractors, Kamkar, NDAA, Northrop Grumman, P-8 Poseidon, PTSD, RQ-170, RQ-180, SkyJack
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 November 28, 2013 · Leave a Comment
Defense Secretary expresses his gratitude to military service members and their families yesterday in a Thanksgiving message.
Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags ACA, air defense zone, B-52, china south sea, Chuck Hagel, HHS, Kathleen Sebelius, Northrop Grumman, Obamacare, Thanksgiving, veterans, X-47B
Posted by Java Joe on November 27, 2013 · Leave a Comment
The MQ-8C Fire Scout can fly twice as long and carry three times more intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance payloads than the current model.
Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags airspace, B-52, BAE, China, defense industry, drone, F-16, Fire Scout, JDAM, miitary technology, MQ-8C, Northrop Grumman, Operation Damayan, rank advancement, RMP, Southern Maryland Sailing Foundation, tax incentive, technology advances, territory dispute, UCLASS
