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 December 4, 2013 · Leave a Comment
Mega-rich individuals are often providers and innovators of information technology such as cyber-security, cloud computing and data mining for both commercial and federal customers.
Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags 1-percenter, AirWatch, amazon, Ashton Carter, Bezos, Biden, Blackberry, China Sea, Christine Fox, Chuck Hagel, Dabbiere, drone, dry submersible, entrepreneur, FIST2FAC, I-400, Lockheed Martin, MUOS, Octocopter, Pentagon, Prime Air, S301i, satellite, SEAL, Southern Maryland Sailing Foundation, submarine, training
Posted by Lexi Leader on November 29, 2013 · Leave a Comment
Richard Dyson, La Plata, reduced energy by 54.1 % in April, May, and June of 2013 to win SMECO’s Energy Saving Challenge. Diane Zrimsek, Lexington Park, came in second with a 53.2 % difference.
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
The Navy’s premiere country-bluegrass ensemble, Country Current, plays at CSM’s LaPlata campus Nov. 23.
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 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 Publisher on November 11, 2013 · Leave a Comment
Armstice Day approaches its 100th year of commemoration from the 1918 end of World War I as US involvement in Vietnam approaches its 50th anniversary in 2015.
Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags Boeing, Business Korea, College of Southern Maryland, college-southern-maryland, CSM, Early Bird, JSF, satellite communications, South Korea, Southern Maryland Sailing Foundation, Stars and Stripes, Taranis UCAS, Typhoon Haiyan, Vietnam, Vietnam War
Posted by Java Joe on November 7, 2013 · Leave a Comment
Initial damage estimate for Webster Field MQ-8B Fire Scout “hard landing” is at least $2 million.
Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags Advanced Super Hornet, CIA, drone, E2 Hawkeye, F/A-18 Super Hornet, FCLP, fire resistant coveralls, hard landing, MQ-4C, MQ-8B, Northrop Grumman, slogan, Southern Maryland Sailing Foundation, Triton, Webster Field Annex
Posted by Mallory Lengel on November 2, 2013 · Leave a Comment
18 schools competed in the weekend’s MDISA Championship under beautiful skies but challenging winds.
Category Leader Features · Tags boating safety, Guy Barbado, High School Sailing, Maryland interscholastic Sailing Association Championship, MDISA, Sail for Youth, sailing, Sailing center cheasapeake, Soutern Maryland Sailing Foundation, Southern Maryland Sailing Foundation, Spirit of America Foundation, Tall Timbers Marina, youth sailing