Posted by Java Joe on January 25, 2018 · Leave a Comment
Hackers are using unauthorized PDF versions of the controversial book “Fire and Fury” to spread malware.
Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags A-10s, AH-1Z Viper, amazon, Cape Canaveral, Falcon Heavy, Fire and Fury, Montana, Naval Surface Forces, net neutrality, SpaceX, Thomas Rowden, United Launch Alliance, VADM Richard Brown, Warthog
Posted by Java Joe on January 24, 2018 · Leave a Comment
Unpredictable Pentagon spending has DoD vendors leaving the marketplace. The defense industrial base is shrinking, research and development stagnant, meaning the weapons systems of tomorrow are not being developed today.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags chemical weapons, Coast Guard radio flaws, cybersecurity, F-16 Block 70, government shutdown, iran nuclear deal, Lt. Gen. John Thompson, Penatgon spending, SpaceX, SpaceX Falcon 9, veterans homelessness, warship collisions
Posted by Java Joe on January 16, 2018 · Leave a Comment
The US Navy has successfully completed its first joint air-to-ground missile flight test on the AH-1Z helicopter at NAS Patuxent River.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags Aegis Ashore, AH-1Z helicopter, David Norquist, DoD audit, General Atomics, Hawaiian missile alert, MQ-9 Reapers, opioids, P-8 Poseidon, Russian drones, SpaceX, spy satellite, US Central Command, VA transparency, Zuma
Posted by Java Joe on January 11, 2018 · Leave a Comment
An analysis of the F-35 finds the joint strike fighter an excellent fit into the demands of modern electronic warfare.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags A-10s grounded, Anna Mae Hays, Defense Enterprise Science Initiative, E-2D Hawkeye, electronic warfare, F-35 joint strike fighter, frigate, JSTARS, Little Rock LCS, SpaceX, US Cyber Command
Posted by Java Joe on January 10, 2018 · Leave a Comment
Department of Defense Comptroller David Norquist is scheduled to testify before the House Armed Services Committee this week to discuss the progress of the Pentagon’s audit.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags Aegis, DoD audit, Goldwater-Nichols Act of 1986, Marines Afghanistan, Phalanx weapons system, Richard Spencer, SpaceX, SpaceX Falcon 9, Taliban, USS Carney, Zuma
Posted by Java Joe on January 9, 2018 · Leave a Comment
SpaceX launched a secret US government satellite called Zuma on Sunday from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
Posted by Java Joe on November 6, 2017 · Leave a Comment
Upkeep of the F-35 JSF fleet will become more challenging as the Pentagon prepares for what the program’s manager has called a “tsunami” of new production.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags A-29B Super Tucano, Agent Orange, B-1 Bombers, E-2D Advanced Hawkeye, earth-imaging satellites, Extra Large Unmanned Undersea Vehicle, JSF Program Office, North Korea sanctions, Orbital ATK, Orbital ATK Minotaur C, Orca, sequestration, SpaceX, SpaceX Falcon 9, Vox Orbit, XLUUV
Posted by Java Joe on October 2, 2017 · Leave a Comment
Engineers and resource managers across the metro DC region weigh in with on-the-ground experience, decades of data, and well-established models. The forecast is bleak.
Posted by Java Joe on August 30, 2017 · Leave a Comment
VADM Phillip G. Sawyer, the new leader of the Navy’s troubled 7th Fleet, has arrived in Japan, replacing Joseph Aucoin, who was relieved last week after a second fatal collision involving one of his ships claimed the lives of 10 sailors.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags Al Dhafra Air Force Base, Boeing, Finland, FY18 appropriations, hurricane harvey, joseph aucoin, Phillip Sawyer, sequestration, SpaceX, transgender, transgender military ban
Posted by Java Joe on August 10, 2017 · Leave a Comment
An unarmed Iranian drone came within 100 feet of a US Navy warplane as it prepared to land on an aircraft carrier in the Gulf, despite repeated radio calls to stay clear. This was the 13th unsafe and unprofessional interaction between the US and Iranian maritime forces in 2017.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags Bannon, deportations, Dragon, F/A-18E, Guam, International Space Station, iranian drone, ISS, McMaster, North Korea, SpaceX, trump, UN Syria Commission, Xavier Alec Martin