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 Publisher on November 18, 2013 · Leave a Comment
Navy Sec Ray Mabus agrees with Congress to heighten focus on the strike capability of the Unmanned Carrier Launched Surveillance and Strike program.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags 4000 jobs cut, atlantic media, drone, Lockheed, mabus, Marion Blakey, Mark Skinner NAVAIR, Northrop Grumman, Ray Mabus, sequestration, space commercial frontier, UCLASS, unmanned vehicle, Wounded Warrier, Yegor Bondarenko
Posted by Java Joe on November 13, 2013 · Leave a Comment
Three very different 2014 DOD funding scenarios are still being considered a month and a half into the fiscal year.
Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags ballistic missile, Blackberry, budget, CACI, China, Congress, cybersecurity, DHS, drone, FY14, Guam, JL-2, Lockheed, Lockheed Martin, NSA, nuclear, Pentagon, Robert Hale, sequestration, unmanned aircraft, USS Theodore Roosevelt, X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System
Posted by Publisher on November 12, 2013 · Leave a Comment
Increasingly complicated testing aboard carriers defines 2014 for the X-47B and increasing foreign sales of the JSF could reduce the jets’ costs.
Category Leader Features · Tags DARPA, Iran, Israel, John Kerry, Lockheed, Northrup\, pod-mounted laser, sequestration, South Korea, Southern Maryland Sailing Foundation, Steffanie Easter, USS Gerald Ford, USS Theodore Roosevelt, X-47B
Posted by Java Joe on November 6, 2013 · Leave a Comment
If the Pentagon is to survive sequestration, Defense Dept. and Congress must work together: SecDef Chuck Hagel.
Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags Aegis, base closures, budget cuts, CFC, Chuck Hagel, Cyber Command, cybersecurity, Defiant, drone, E6B Mercury, Early Bird, flag officer assignments, fund raiser, JMR, Lockheed, NSA, Pax River, pensions, SB-1, Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, sequestration, Sikorsky, SR-72, UH-60, X2
Posted by Publisher on October 29, 2013 · Leave a Comment
As the JSF undergoes increasing cost surveillance and accountability studies at home, the White House is making foreign weapon sales easier.
Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags accountability, airship, al Shabaab, blimp, drones, F-13, federal retirement, healthcare.gov, Joint Strike Fighter, JSF, jsf accountability, killer robots, military budget, moon landings, Nairobi, sequestration, somalia, weapon sales, X-47
Posted by Sheila Gibbons on October 28, 2013 · 1 Comment
Defense firms use multiple tactics to protect their bottom lines as shifts in funding and wish lists force rebalancing.
Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags B-1, B-15, BAE, Boeing, defense contractors, F-35, federal employees, Lockheed, sequestration, Taranis UCAV
Posted by Publisher on October 21, 2013 · Leave a Comment
Reeling with productivity losses from the shutdown and facing another sequestration hit, the Pentagon continues with plans to sell $10.8 billion in munitions to Persian Gulf allies.
Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags Beau Duarte, COLA, Concorde, cost of living adjustment, F-35, furlough, Jaime Engdahl, JSF, LiFi, primes, productivity, sequestration, Supercommittee Light, WiFi
Posted by Publisher on October 1, 2013 · Leave a Comment
Brinkmanship, partisanship, disruptive or stupid — whatever you call it, Congress shuttered government and froze most federal workers’ paychecks, but not their own.
Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags China Sea, civilian retirement, cyber security, Democrats, furlough, GOP, government, hagel, Japan, military pay, military retirement, Peter Munson, retirement, sequestration, Shahed 129, spending bill
Posted by Sheila Gibbons on September 23, 2013 · Leave a Comment
Shutdown looms Oct. 1 if House, Senate can’t agree, and St. Mary’s County remembers Frank Kohler.
