SHOULD CITY TAXPAYER FUNDS BE SPENT ON THE MILITARY COMMUNITY RELATIONS COMMITTEE?
If you would like to send an E-mail to City or County Officials, Military Community Relations Committee (MCRC) members, or base personnel about the role of the City in the MCRC at a time of layoffs and furlougs of police and fire personnel, here are some E-mail addresses. Is the City doing a job that should fall to the Chamber of Commerce, TREO or the D-M 50? Also, how is the public being treated by a supposidly open and transparent process, the MCRC? Is the City and the County doing their jobs to protect their citizens and urban Tucson? You can also send a letter to the Editor of the Arizona Daily Star letters@azstarnet.com
Keep reading for the E-mail addresses.
[Read more →]Software Fix En Route to Grounded F-35s
by Graham Warwick, Aviation Week 10/1/10
Flight testing of the F-35 is expected to resume early next week after being suspended since early this week after a problem with the software controlling the fuel boost pumps was discovered in the lab. Modified software is to …
[Read more →]MILITARY AVIATION AND THE ENVIRONMENT: WHY THE MILITARY SHOULD CARE
Ian Shields | Exclusively written for sustainablesecurity.org | September 2010
Aviation has come a long way in the century or so since the Wright brothers first flew, and there can be no doubt that it has brought some great benefits: bringing people closer together, allowing …
[Read more →]OSD Squeezes JSF Costs Harder
By Colin Clark Wednesday, September 8th, 2010, DoD Buzz
OSD Downplays Kendall Comments, Says His Figures Were “Hypothetical”
Frank Kendall, principal deputy undersecretary of defense for acquisition, technology and logistics, told an international defense conference today that the Pentagon is “on the path” to buy …
[Read more →]THE REAL ORIGINS OF THE WYLE STUDY
This is a letter to a Tucson Forward member about how the Wyle Study of Operation Snowbird came about. Operation Snowbird is the Air National Guard training program that brings sister service and foreign fighter aircraft in and out of Davis-Monthan (DM) over urban Tucson. Since this program is open to all sister and allied services, it may well include the F-35 in the future as US and allied fighter jets are replaced.
It has been almost 10 months since Wyle Engineering promised at a public meeting on October 30, 2009 that they would be working on a draft report of Operation Snowbird for presentation to the MCRC and the public.
[Read more →]Ashton Carter–Misleading Congress with F-35 Nunn-McCurdy Recertification
Eric Palmer | June 3, 2010
The DOD’s top procurement guy Ashton Carter starts out his letter (PDF) to our elected officials, which recertifies the F-35 after its Nunn-McCurdy cost breach with a lie. Several of them actually.
He states that there are no alternatives …
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