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G2 Solutions @ February 27, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Not much in there that we can disagree with both viewpoints
New Symbol of Evil
When you’re afraid to state and defend the truth, good and right always lose. It is particularly so when the fear is based on being politically incorrect. Deal with it: Political correctness is nothing more than mob mentality - disagree, and at [...]
G2 Solutions @ February 26, 2009 # No Comment Yet
From Aviation Week this morning:
President Barack Obama is proposing that the Defense Department receive $533.7 billion as a baseline budget for fiscal 2010, with another $130 billion in supplemental funding to bring the total to almost $664 billion.
Regarding intelligence budgeting, the new White House did not disclose a top-line figure, saying the budget is classified [...]
G2 Solutions @ February 26, 2009 # No Comment Yet
KAL has chosen to invest in additional, currently unneeded capacity and this reflects a very wise strategic move on the part of the Korean airline.
Bloomberg’ Susanna Ray confirms that “The Seoul-based airline will take delivery of the aircraft, worth $1.1 billion, or $176.2 million each, at list prices, between July 2010 and the end of [...]
G2 Solutions @ February 26, 2009 # No Comment Yet
That is the opinion of Edwin Black in the Jerusalem Post this morning. Some elements are rather thought provoking and are worthy of consideration:
-$20/gallon: would paralyze US economy and have immediate catastrophic effect on the airline industry
-57 days of strategic reserve would likely force the US Navy to act in the Persian Gulf to restore [...]
G2 Solutions @ February 25, 2009 # No Comment Yet
This tragedy is hitting home tonight. Boeing said four of its employees, all based in Seattle, were on the plane. Their conditions were not immediately known. Several Northrop Grumman employees were also tragically lost in the recent Q400 accident in Buffalo.
Article from the Seattle PI
G2 Solutions @ February 24, 2009 # No Comment Yet
The Eclipse Aviation Note Holders have filed a Motion to Convert to Chapter 7 (liquidation) and a Motion to Shorten. There will be significant lessons to derive from this program. Over time, many of the innovations undertaken by Eclipse and its suppliers will be retained. Costly errors were made, unquestionably, and perhaps this adventure will [...]
G2 Solutions @ February 24, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Hard to disagree with either of them with regards to this particular program and the 65% cost overruns.
SEN JOHN MCCAIN: Just one area that I wanted to mention that I think consumed a lot of our conversation on procurement was the issue of cost overruns in the Defense Department. We all know how large the [...]
G2 Solutions @ February 23, 2009 # No Comment Yet
POTUS comments on VH-71 are worrisome. These were either entirely justified or blatantly naive, it’s too early to say although we have some ideas as to where this might be heading to.
“Obama Says Presidential Helicopter Is Procurement ‘Gone Amok’”
LMT Down today 3.88 (4.99%)
G2 Solutions @ February 20, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Aviation Week reports that the U.S. Navy is dusting off its interest in improving its probe-and-drogue aerial refueling method, with plans to demonstrate an actively stabilized drogue for use with unmanned aircraft.
This system is particularly critical for future X-47s and nextgen Hunter Killers
Avweek Article
G2 Solutions @ February 20, 2009 # No Comment Yet
U.S. officials are stepping up monitoring of North Korea amid growing tensions with South Korea and concerns that the North will take some type of provocative action on the peninsula.
Geostrategy-Direct also reports the following:
Chinese fishing boats vanished from the western waters between the divided Koreas during the previous week as Pyongyang has warned of [...]
G2 Solutions @ February 13, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Senator Dianne Feinstein may have revealed an intimate military secret when she stated that American military drones used to bomb Pakistan’s tribal areas operate out of a Pakistani air base… read on
G2 Solutions @ February 12, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Three names are circulating in the media as to who may served in the likely Benjamin Netanyahu government:
Ehud Barak: incumbent, and highly respected military leader and former prime minister.
Shaul Mofaz: also an IDF veteran, who lost the Kadima leadership contest back in August of 2008.
Moshe Ya’alon: Former IDF chief of staff and perhaps the most [...]
G2 Solutions @ February 10, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Quoting sources close to the program, Le Figaro newspaper reports this morning that the A400M airlift aicraft will suffer further delays. First flight is scheduled for 2010 and selected deliveries could take place from 2012. However most A400M customers will need to wait until 2014 to receive production aircraft, some 3-5 years behind the original [...]
G2 Solutions @ February 10, 2009 # No Comment Yet
From the American Enterprise Institute:
“Defense spending could well be the most precisely targeted form of stimulus spending. The current legislation promises hundreds of billions of dollars in block grants to the states, and neither the White House nor Congress has a clear understanding of where that money is going to wind up being spent.”
“Making room [...]
G2 Solutions @ February 10, 2009 # No Comment Yet
The consequences of this vote could be significant in the coming months.
Analysis: Will the US and Israel now be able to tango?
Binyamin Netanyahu poised for a comeback in Israel elections
G2 Solutions @ February 9, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Boeing Unit Lawsuit Over CIA Flight Plans Is Appealed
The Obama administration joined a Boeing Co. unit in opposing a lawsuit claiming the company disguised the CIA’s delivery of suspected terrorists to secret prisons where they were tortured…. continue reading
G2 Solutions @ February 9, 2009 # No Comment Yet
This one will surely end up on the Strand. “Adair Turner, chairman of the independent Committee on Climate Change that advises UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown, made the proposal before Parliament’s Environmental Audit Select Committee on Feb. 5. In remarks widely reported by UK media, Turner said, “We will have to constrain demand in an [...]
