by Craig Hooper on January 20, 2011
Jeanette Steele, one of the better national security reporters working today, chatted with me about the USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76), which will, in 2012, be headed off for a year’s maintenance in far-off Washington State. The story is here. This was big news for the San Diego region, which was all excited about being the […]
by Craig Hooper on November 6, 2010
Loren Thompson, the erstwhile employee of Lockheed Martin, slaps the Pentagon’s testing community, dismissing J. Michael Gilmore’s testing and evaluation community as a tribal manifestation of bureaucratic bloat. In Loren’s latest missive, he claims that the F-35 delay will be… “…caused by the desire of the Pentagon’s testing community to conduct a vast array of […]
by Craig Hooper on May 28, 2010
This is old and I haven’t been tracking the issue, but just how prepared is the Navy’s logistical pipeline to deal with the JSF? This snippet–taken from an old piece on the long-dead T-AOE(X) project–worries me: “The new buy cialis carrier will have no engine overhaul facility for the Joint Strike cialis 20mg Fighter, Clarey […]