Posted by Publisher on March 17, 2014 · Leave a Comment
SoMd legislators sought the moratorium fearing radar interference from a wind turbine farm on the Eastern Shore of Maryland across the Chesapeake Bay from NAS:PaxRiver.
Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags Atlas V rockets, Blue Angels, Brendan I. Koerner, China J-20, Gen. Martin Dempsey, Global Hawk, hijack, MH370, MQ-4C Triton, P-8 Poseidon, Russia, sexual assault counsellors, UAV, USS Kidd, VADM Michael Rogers, wind farm, wind turbines
Posted by Publisher on February 25, 2014 · Leave a Comment
Personnel, benefits, ships and entire military bases are on the chopping block, but still DoD is far short of what sequestration might still require for FY2015.
Posted by Java Joe on February 19, 2014 · Leave a Comment
DOD says some bases are no longer needed as wars in Iraq and Afghanistan conclude but lawmakers want to protect jobs in their districts.
Category Leader Features · Tags base closures, Chuck Hagel, contracting awards, diversity, drones, F-35, Lockheed Martin, P-8 Poseidon, Predator, Randy Forbes, Ray Mabus, Raytheon, UCLASS
Posted by Java Joe on February 13, 2014 · Leave a Comment
The new generation of laser weapons are approaching the power and efficiency needed for active military use.
Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags Boeing, COLA, Congress, EA-18, F-35C, F/A-18 Super Hornet, Frank Kendall, JSF, laser weapons, Lockheed Martin, MSA, norovirus, P-8 Poseidon, sonic boom, texting while driving, USS Iwo Jima
Posted by Java Joe on January 30, 2014 · Leave a Comment
A DoD acquisition executive responded this week to a negative report on the Navy’s Boeing P-8A Poseidon aircraft.
Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags Boeing, CBP, China, Coherent Technical Services, COLA, CTSi, deer crashes, DoD, drone, F-35 joint strike fighter, Inspector General, JSF, Lockheed Martin, Operation Homeport, P-8 Poseidon, P-8A, Predator, UAS
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 Publisher on December 3, 2013 · 1 Comment
No country will host the destruction of Syria’s most lethal chemical weapons, so the US is outfitting a commercial transport vessel to do the job at sea.
Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags 7th fleet, Austrialian Department ofDefense, chemical weapons at sea, Cyber Monday, drones, East China Sea, Falco, Falco drones, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, JSF, MV Cape Ray, P-8 Poseidon, P=8A Poseidon, Pacific fleet, Pakistan, Quickstep Holdings, Seizure Sunday, Syria, UN, United Nations drones, USS George Washington
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 20, 2013 · Leave a Comment
The 2014 defense bill must pass by Dec. 12 to avoid a $50 billion cut hitting the Pentagon mid-January.
Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags 2014 Department of Defense Appropriations Act, benefits, Boeing, budget, C-17, compensation, Congress, EA-18, F-35, F/A-18, federal contractors, Globemaster, government shutdown, iran drone, JSF, Lockheed, MAVEN, P-8 Poseidon, Pentagon, Senate, sequesration, Veterans Benefits, veterans programs
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