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Valour-IT 2009: Video Competition
So, its like this. A competition is being held within the competition between the teams for best Valour-IT video. I’m sure someone has put together a slide show set to (trite) tear-jerking music. We didn’t. We opted for some kick@$$ instead… So, a familiar video – but with some twists, courtesy Team Navy: Oh yes…
The Solomons Campaign: Status of the United States Fleet and Plans After Midway
This week marks the first of our Guest Bloggers for the Solomons Campaign blog project. The author is no stranger to this or several other milblogs – he is AT1(AW) Charles H. Berlemann, Jr. Hailing from the VAQ community, Charles is a student of naval history, particularly, naval aviation history and we have kept a…
Christmas Lights
One of our long-standing family traditions we have had to forego since moving to Occupied Territory from Hampton Roads some few years back was the drive down to the carrier and destroyer-sub piers at the Norfolk Naval Base after evening service on Christmas Eve. There we’d see all manner of creative talent put to display,…
U.S. Navy Awards E-2D Aircraft Contract
NAVAL AIR SYSTEMS COMMAND, PATUXENT RIVER, Md. — In a decision that will save the federal government about $369 million, Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) awarded a $3.643 billion multi-year procurement contract to Northrop Grumman Corp. on June 30 for 25 E-2D Advanced Hawkeye aircraft. The five-year contract covers the purchase of full-rate production (FRP) E-2D…
Flightdeck Friday: The Last Great Battle in the Pacific – Okinawa
The conversation this past week has been centered on the Maritime Strategy – appropriate in light of the events of sixty-three years ago and the signatory role seapower and all three maritime services played then. While we have yet another post on the current strategy in the Alert 30 posture (day time jobs do have…
IAMD Acquisition Updates: E-2D Advanced Hawkeye and SM-3 Blk IIB
Couple of developments in the last week with regards to major systems in our Integrated Air and Missile Defense (IAMD) plans for the coming decades: Item: The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) has awarded concept definition contracts to three teams competing for the SM-3 Block IIB advanced interceptor (aka: Next Generation Aegis Missile (NGAM)). Designed to…