Weapons Tester: JSF Software Late & Deficient
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DoD’s weapons tester declared the F-35 won’t be ready on schedule, and when it is finished, deficiencies will remain, particularly in the JSF software, reports Bloomberg News. Aviation Week opines that the fighter jets’ troubles are not lifting.
Before North Korean hackers attacked Sony, the US had not directly charged a government with mounting a cyberattack on American targets. According to NSA records, reports The New York Times the US agencies were certain of the origination of the Sony attack, because in 2010 the US put malware into North Korean cyber systems, which tracked the attack’s source.
Mail, parts, and passengers will start landing on aircraft carriers aboard the V-22 Ospreys, reports the Navy Times. The Navy plans to buy four of the tiltrotors each year from FY18-20 and replace the C-2A Greyhounds toting the mail now.
The nation’s MIA search may shift from the Pentagon to a nonprofit already making good progress at identifications, reports Stars and Stripes.
Suicide rates fell in 2013 among active-duty military, reports Military Times, to about the same as in the civilian population, a bit below 19 per 100,000. The Navy’s 13.4 suicides per 100,000 was the lowest among the services with 23.1 the highest for the Marines.
The USS Constellation has reached its final port, reports Stars and Stripes from Brownsville, TX. It now heads to a shipyard to be scrapped.
Make the president submit two-year budgets, say two former Virginia governors now US Senators. Defense News reports the duo’s proposal as calling the current annual budget system as “broken.”
