Posted by Java Joe on August 22, 2016 · Leave a Comment
The search for sunken aircraft from NAS Patuxent River continues in the Chesapeake Bay.
Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags BAE Systems, Bell-Boeing, F-35C Joint Strike Fighter, F/A-18 Super Hornet, FGS LLC, FJ-1 Fury, Guantanamo, HOK-1 Huskie, Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus, sunken aircraft, VADM Mike Shoemaker
Posted by Java Joe on May 31, 2016 · Leave a Comment
Criticizing China’s actions in the South China Sea during the Naval Academy commencement address, Carter warned China that it is on a path to build a “great wall of self-isolation.”
Posted by Java Joe on May 25, 2016 · Leave a Comment
There’s a lot to like in the procurement reforms in the draft defense bill, even with concerns about some new workplace regulations.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags defense policy bill, European Union, F-16, F/A-18 Super Hornet, Inc., Israel, KBR, overtime, P-8A Poseidon, Pakistan, sexual assault, Turkey, US Naval Academy, Wyle
Posted by Java Joe on April 26, 2016 · Leave a Comment
USS Carl Vinson gets first drone command center, the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, based in Norfolk, VA, is next.
Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags Apache helicopters, draft, draft women, drone, F-35C Joint Strike Fighter, F/A-18 Super Hornet, South China Sea, UAS, USS Carl Vinson, USS Dwight D. Eisenhower
Posted by Java Joe on September 22, 2015 · Leave a Comment
Israel is concerned Russian weapons in Syria will reach Hezbollah.
Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags Canada, China, cyber security, drones, F-35, F/A-18 Super Hornet, Israel, Jordan, Netanyahu, putin, Russia, Susan Rice
Posted by Java Joe on December 18, 2014 · Leave a Comment
73 percent of voters want to lift spending caps in some form and 43 percent want sequestration eliminated and replaced with a bipartisan compromise.
Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags Boeing, Capt. Butch Wilmore, Col. Morris Turner, Data Link Solutions, F/A-18 Super Hornet, foreign arms sales, Lockheed Martin, MQ-9 Reaper, P-8A Poseidon, RQ-4 Global Hawk, sequestration, veteran lawmakers
Posted by Java Joe on November 5, 2014 · Leave a Comment
An F-35C Lightning II made an arrested landing aboard the USS Nimitz in an important milestone for both the stealth fighter and naval aviation history.
Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags AV-8B Harrier, cybersecurity, F-35C, F/A-18 Super Hornet, Military Times Poll, Navy SEALS, Office of Federal Procurement Policy, Somerset Wind Farm, Subic, UAV, USS Nimitz
Posted by Java Joe on October 27, 2014 · Leave a Comment
The J-31 stealth fighter is a land based jet but could also evolve into a carrier based ‘naval configuration’, and become a direct competitor for the F-35.
Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags Blue Angels, DISA, F-35, F/A-18 Super Hornet, J-31 stealth fighter, Lockheed Martin, MQ-4C Triton, MQ-8C Fire Scout, Northrop Grumman, P-8 Poseidon, USS Nimitz
Posted by Java Joe on October 7, 2014 · 1 Comment
Senator Graham said, “We’re taking the military budget under sequestration cuts down to the smallest Army since 1940 and the smallest Navy since 1915.”
Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags American Veterans Disabled for Life Memorial, Commander Shawn M. Kern, F-35, F/A-18 Super Hornet, NAVAIR International Programs Department, Naval Surface Warfare Center Indian Head, Navy leadership training survey, Raytheon, Ron Weinberger, Senator Lindsey Graham, swarmboat, Trident missile
Posted by Java Joe on September 23, 2014 · Leave a Comment
Draft report says the F-35’s long-term costs may be substantially higher than those of the existing F/A-18, F-15, F-16 and Harrier combat aircraft fleets.
Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags atomic weapons, Better Buying Power 3.0, contractor security clearances, F-35, F/A-18 Super Hornet, Frank Kendall, LCS, Lockheed Martin, Somerset Wind Farm, SSC, stealth technology, UAV, UCLASS
