Posted by Sheila Gibbons on February 18, 2015 · Leave a Comment
Newly detected malware affecting institutional computer networks worldwide is a form of cyber espionage that can’t always be removed.
Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags Ashton Carter, Australia, cyber-espionage, drones, Egypt, Iran, malware, MQ-1 Predator, Qatar, Rafales fighter jets, sequestration, Super Hornets
Posted by Publisher on February 11, 2015 · Leave a Comment
Leading business magazine blasts DefSec nominee Ashton Carter’s history of wasting taxpayer money.
Posted by Publisher on January 26, 2015 · Leave a Comment
The defense budget is expected to slightly decline through 2016 then gradually increase until 2021.
Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags drones, eCASS, F-35, Facebook, First Command, Google, internet, Jim Litsch, Microsfot, MIL Corp, sequestration, Sonny Fann, Vodafone
Posted by Java Joe on December 18, 2014 · Leave a Comment
73 percent of voters want to lift spending caps in some form and 43 percent want sequestration eliminated and replaced with a bipartisan compromise.
Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags Boeing, Capt. Butch Wilmore, Col. Morris Turner, Data Link Solutions, F/A-18 Super Hornet, foreign arms sales, Lockheed Martin, MQ-9 Reaper, P-8A Poseidon, RQ-4 Global Hawk, sequestration, veteran lawmakers
Posted by Sheila Gibbons on November 24, 2014 · 1 Comment
Climate change and conflict are linked, says RADM Jonathan White, and urgent for defense, diplomatic and environmental policy-making.
Posted by Java Joe on November 19, 2014 · Leave a Comment
Mr. Hagel wants a new round of military base closures (BRAC) and to limit troop benefits to give the DoD flexibility in addressing its budget problems.
Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags Air Test and Evaluation Squadron, BRAC, Chuck Hagel, defense budget, F-35, hovercraft, K-MAX, Kamen, Lockheed Martin, MH-60R, MH-60S, MQ-1 Predator, Ray Mabus, sequestration, Sikorsky Aircraft, USS Nimitz
Posted by Java Joe on September 16, 2014 · Leave a Comment
Sequestration-driven budget cuts are compromising American defense innovation and the next generation of weapons and other defense products.
Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags China, command advancement program, F-35, F/A-18C, military pay, P-8A Poseidon, Predator: The Secret Origins of the Drone Revolution", security clearances, sequestration, V-22 Osprey
Posted by Publisher on May 29, 2014 · Leave a Comment
In an all too familiar pattern, the defense budgets of the Senate, House, Pentagon and White House fail to match up for FY15.
Posted by Java Joe on March 5, 2014 · Leave a Comment
Boeing may slow the construction of the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet and EA-18G Growler to give Congress time to order additional aircraft.
Posted by Java Joe on January 16, 2014 · Leave a Comment
The House of Representatives passed the $1.1 trillion omnibus spending bill and it now moves to the Senate for its consideration.
Category Leader Features · Tags aircraft carrier, Boeing, Congress, F-35, F/A-18, Homeless veterans, Israel, Lockheed Martin, MQ-8 Fire Scout, OCO, omnibus appropriations bill, Ray Mabus, Robert Martinage, Sen. Barbara Mikulski, sequestration, TSA Inc, USS Theodore Roosevelt, V-22 Osprey