Alternatives to the LCS Beginning to Arrive
The Navy taskforce seeking a future with or without the LCS is beginning to receive industry specs for alternatives.
Morning Coffee: Wind Farm Debate Continues
The Baltimore Sun expresses its support for the proposed wind farm and advocates a “win-win” solution that also protects NAS Pax River interests.
STEM-ING: Inspiring Girls’ Career Choices
Middle-school girls can try out science, tech, engineering and math careers May 3.
Morning Coffee: Navy Expands Plane Search
The USS Kidd, a guided missile destroyer, has now joined the USS Pinckney in the search effort for a missing Malaysian airliner.
Morning Coffee: 2015 Budget Cuts Deep
Military personnel spending may drop to 2008 levels as DOD cuts back from steep wartime expenditures under the 2015 budget request released Tuesday.
Morning Coffee: Congress Should Shutter Some Bases
DOD says some bases are no longer needed as wars in Iraq and Afghanistan conclude but lawmakers want to protect jobs in their districts.
Sensitive F-35 Documents Intercepted
Contractor charged with attempting to ship thousands of pages of sensitive documents to Iran relating to the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter’s engine.
Quarter-Million in Uniform Overseas for the Holidays
Joint Chiefs of Staff Dempsey reminds Americans of the hundreds of thousands of service members and civilians workers who do not take holidays off from the job of keeping us safe.
Budget Delivers a Merry Christmas to Contractors
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.
Boeing’s P-8 Poseidon Contract Grows by $100 Million
Military, federal retirees and Social Security recipients will receive a COLA increase in January.
