Posted by Java Joe on January 22, 2019 · Leave a Comment
The resurrected 2nd Fleet will become operational by early next year. The fleet will oversee the training of Navy forces on the East Coast. Expect the fleet to be “leaner, agile, and more expeditionary” than it was when deactivated in 2011.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags 2nd Fleet, Bell Boeing Joint Project Office, CH-53K King Stallion, cybersecurity, malware, missile defense strategy, Navy surface fleet, P-8A Poseidon, Rep. Elaine Luria, sealift fleet, SpaceX, VADM Richard Brown, veteran suicides, Vulcan rocket
Posted by Java Joe on December 6, 2018 · Leave a Comment
Navy VADM James Malloy has landed in Bahrain on temporary duty with US 5th Fleet and US Naval Forces Central Command, after the previous commander VADM Scott Stearney was found dead in his home over the weekend from an apparent suicide.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags 5th Fleet, Army Ranger Peter Kassig, Army recruiting, Bennu, Chinese sanctions, government shutdown, ISIS, Osiris-Rex, Saudi arms deal, SpaceX, US Mexico Border, US-China trade, VADM James Malloy, VADM Scott Stearney
Posted by Java Joe on November 20, 2018 · Leave a Comment
Lockheed Martin’s experimental supersonic plane has officially entered production. Earlier this year, NASA awarded the company a contract to develop an aircraft capable of reaching supersonic speed without creating the sonic boom that comes with breaking the sound barrier.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags Antares rocket, Australia F-35, B-21 bombers, climate change, defense budget, Deputy DefSec Patrick Shanahan, DoD audit, Gen. Joseph Dunford, Great Britain F-35, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Space X Falcon 9, SpaceX, supersonic aircraft, trade war, Turkey F-35, Wallops Flight Facility
Posted by Java Joe on October 18, 2018 · Leave a Comment
Drones are already changing the battlefield and impacting US strategy. Increased robotic controls of drones will likely also reduce the human footprint of counterinsurgency as the technology advances.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags Blue Origin, Booz Allen Hamilton, Capt. Jack Killman, drones, Gen Alireza Tangsiri, General Atomics Reaper, Iran, Iranian drones, Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy, Northrop Grumman, Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems, Raytheon, SEFIAM 1602, South Korea, SpaceX, Turgis et Gaillard Industri, Ukraine
Posted by Java Joe on September 25, 2018 · Leave a Comment
Canada plans to close a deal by the end of this year to purchase 25 used F/A-18A/B Hornets from Australia.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags aerial refueling, Big Falcon Rocket, Center for Strategic & International Studies, Combined Federal Campaign, F/A-18 Hornets, Hurricane Florence, Jeff Bezos, KC-Z tanker, Lockheed Martin, military sexual assault, Skunk Works, space force, SpaceX, T-6 Texan trainer, UCAVs, VA budget
Posted by Java Joe on August 22, 2018 · Leave a Comment
SpaceX is gearing up to launch NASA astronauts to space with its Falcon 9 rockets. The agency has been debating whether to allow the company to fuel its spacecraft after the astronauts have boarded.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags Blandino Villanueva, Fancy Bear, ISIS, Mars landing, microsoft, military contract fraud, NASA InSight, russian intelligence, SpaceX, SpaceX Falcon 9, Strontium, Syrian civilian aid, USS Decatur
The Blue Angels Squadron is set for a major upgrade following a $17 million contract award.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags augmentd reality, Blue Angels, Bryan P. Watson, crimea, Elon Musk, NASA, Russia, secure elections act, SpaceX, submarine Alaska, Super Hornet
Posted by Java Joe on August 15, 2018 · Leave a Comment
The $716B defense authorization bill was signed earlier in the year than any NDAA for the past 40 years and also included a stall in the F-35 sale to Turkey and provided President Trump an opportunity to tout his Space Force.
Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy, Elon Musk, F-35, Forrest Rednour, hackers, Marine Corps, mattis, NDAA, space force, SpaceX, trump, Turkey
Posted by Java Joe on August 9, 2018 · Leave a Comment
New Pentagon Policy: deployed service members will no longer be allowed to use fitness tracking apps or other wearable technology that relies on geolocation.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags Chinese tariffs, direct officer commissions, fitness trackers, geo-tracking, KBRwyle Technology Solutions, Littoral Combat Ships, Mendocino Complex Fire, RQ-7B Shadow UAS, SpaceX, USS Charleston, V-280 gunship
Posted by Java Joe on June 26, 2018 · Leave a Comment
F-35 jets are already in 12 nations, are set to dominate the Western fighter market for decades to come.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags 355-ship fleet, A-29 Super Tucano, Class C ground mishaps, Desert Storm War Memorial, F-35, foreign military sales, Joseph Maguire, military commissaries, MQ-9 Reaper, National Counterrorism Center, North Korean summit, SpaceX
