The View from Pax River 07/18/2011 - In mid-June, the Second Line of Defense team visited Pax River and received overviews on various aspects of the test program. One of those aspects was shaping the maintenance approach. [caption id="attachment_21442" align="alignleft" width="191" caption="Craig Paramore (Credit: SLD)"][/caption] During our visit to Pax…
By Dr. Richard Weitz 07/18/2011 - In rolling out its new cyber defense strategy, Deputy Defense Secretary William Lynn revealed that a foreign intelligence agency stole 24,000 files from a major U.S. defense contractor this March. Lynn added that this incident was just the latest example of how, during the…
07/18/2011 During the Second Line of Defense visit at Pax River in June, we sat down with Leslie Taylor, from the Mission Systems Flight Test group of the Joint Strike Fighter Office in the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division at Pax River and discussed what the F-35 mission systems…
07/17/2011 Col. Arthur Tomassetti provided an update on July 15, 2011 regarding the F-35 at Eglin, the day after the F-35A arrived as an operational aircraft at Eglin. Col. Tomassetti is the vice commander of the 33rd Fighter Wing which serves as the home to the Joint Strike Fighter Integrated…
07/14/2011: During the Second Line of Defense visit to the Contingency Response Wing located at McGuire AFB, several of the components of the Wing provided presentations of their approach, capabilities and components. The Assessment Team, or the soldiers who deploy first to determine what needs to follow to set up…
07/14/2011 The first F-35A for the pilot training and maintenance training program arrived today at Eglin AFB. Our sources at Eglin indicate that this is a DD250 aircraft which means that, de facto, it is part of the operational USAF. The DD 250 shows Air Force ownership of aircraft. This…
07/13/2011 By Richard Weitz On July 9, the Republic of South Sudan became the world’s 193rd independent country. A moving independence ceremony, attended by many of the world’s leaders, occurred at the new country’s new national capital of Juba. In a welcome development, the Republic of Sudan, the new country’s…
Criminalized States and Terrorist-Criminal Pipelines By Douglas Farah Senior Fellow, Financial Investigations and Transparency International Assessment and Strategy Center Adjunct Fellow, Americas Program, CSIS http://www.ndu.edu/press/emerging-alliances.html 07/13/2011 Viktor Bout: A Case Study in the New World Order 07/05/2011 - Viktor Bout, a former Soviet military intelligence official, became one of the…
