Posted by Java Joe on January 2, 2014 · Leave a Comment
Federal employees will receive their first automatic pay raise in more than three years, 1 percent beginning Jan. 1.
Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags BQM-74, budget, COLA, cybersecurity, drone, drug testing, Lockheed Martin, military retirees, pay raise, synthetic marijuana, UCLASS, USS Chancellorsville
Posted by Java Joe on December 12, 2013 · Leave a Comment
Deal would avert another government shutdown, halve sequestration cuts for the current fiscal year and fund the government through October 2015. Pentagon spending cuts scheduled for January would be avoided while Defense spending is increased by $2 billion over last year.
Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags budget, Corporate Equality Index, cyber-attack, cybersecurity, DARPA, F-35, JSF, Lockheed Martin, Man of the Year, online gaming, sequesration, sonar testing, unmanned
The ice cap is melting faster than anticipated and commercial interest accelerating prompting the US to think strategically about security in the Arctic.
Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags Arctic Strategy plan, chemical weapons, Chestertown MD, Chuck Hagel, Compass Systems, corporate taxes, cybersecurity, cybersecurty legislation, Frank Narducci, industrial policy, Jay Rockefeller, job loss in MD, JSF North Carolina, Maryland, Naval Air Systems Command, Norton Schwartz, O'Malley, Patuxent Partnership, Sen. Max Baucus, Syria, tax loopholes
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 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.
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Posted by Java Joe on October 30, 2013 · Leave a Comment
They’ve changed the way we go to war.
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Posted by Publisher on October 16, 2013 · Leave a Comment
As Senate leaders near an agreement to avert a debt crisis and re-open government, House Speaker John Boehner continues fighting for a GOP bill but fails to win the support he needs from Republican conservatives.
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Posted by Publisher on September 4, 2013 · Leave a Comment
Yeast converts waste to fuel and gives lift-off from Pax River, but a failure to reach audit-readiness brings a rebuke from the Government Accounting Office
Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags Australia, BAMS, Barrack Obama, biofuel, cybersecurity, El Centro, John Kerry, JSF, Lemoore, Louisiana, Mrtin Dempsey, Osprey, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Syria
Posted by Publisher on July 29, 2013 · Leave a Comment
As commercial operations get certification to begin working with drones in vacant airspace a Pax River team develops the inter-communications technology for real-time data sharing across multiple platforms.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags Aberdeen Proving Ground, China, cybersecurity, energy efficiency, FAA, Great Barrier Reef, JLENS, JSF testing at Edwards, NGA maps, UAS, USS Guardian, Utah Test and Training Range
Posted by Publisher on June 10, 2013 · Leave a Comment
Despite reductions elsewhere, a month of achievements and cost savings is good news for the JSF. It’s more of a mixed bag for cyber-security.
Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags air to air missile launch, CIA, cyber-attack, cyber-defense, cybersecurity, cyberwarfare, defense budget bill, Facebook, furloughs, hagel, HASC, Helms, Jim Sanborn, JSF, JSF air missile launch, Kryptos Sculpture Code, Lockheed Martin, Mark Zuckerman, McCaskill, PRISM, Susan Helms
