2018-02-10 Recently, the UK Minister of Defence procurement officially opened a new Atlas hangar which is large enough to contain three of the RAF’s new Atlas transport aircraft at the same time. The hangar is part of a significant infrastructure build by the UK Ministry of Defence to support new…
2/10/18: The inaugural Sub-Regional Defence Ministers’ Meeting on Counter-Terrorism was held in Perth, between 1 and 2 February 2018. The Perth Meeting is a new forum, which brings together ministers from Australia, Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand to strengthen counter-terrorism cooperation in our region. Minister for Defence,…
2018-02-09 New Delhi, February 6, 2018: The US Air Force Chief of Staff, Gen. David L. Goldfein departed New Delhi Sunday following meetings with US Embassy leadership as well as Republic of India military leadership to discuss strengthening the strategic military-to-military partnership with India. On Wednesday, Gen. Goldfein met with…
2018-02-04 By Danny Lam Competition between public and controlled information is as old as life. From the beginning of time, there were information hoarder / controllers and disseminators / distributors. Information science tells us that 99% of information is public and only a tiny portion is significantly restricted. The explosion…
1/31/18: In a deal made prior to President Maron becoming President, France and Germany agreed to join forces and share costs of the new squadron. There will be 4 C130Js on the French side to be acquired by 2019 and 6 on the German side after the Bundestag’s expected green…
2018-01-30 By Robbin Laird For 21st century digital military systems, the development process is both about how you build the evolving aircraft as well as testing the product and evolving the lessons learned into the evolving production process. It is an open-ended learning process. And one, which will characterize the…
2018-01-31 By Robbin Laird The CH-53K is in the final phase of getting ready to enter into service. The final phase of preparation includes the wrap up of testing at West Palm Beach, the conclusion of testing at Pax River, and the validation of maintenance procedures at the base, which…
2018-01-30 By Danny Lam Donald J. Trump was the first candidate to become president of the United States without prior experience as a military leader, a politician or ever having held a senior government post. As he delivers his State of the Union address this week, the president has the…
