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09 May 2012
Climatics and Environmental Testing • Commercial and Worldwide EMC and EMI • Dynamics Testing • Fire Resistance/Spread Testing • Military and Aerospace EMC EMI

Boeing’s CEO warns Washington: Get your act together

Boeing’s CEO warns Washington: Get your act together

Boeing CEO Jim McNerney warned Tuesday that the threat of next year’s automatic, across-the-board budget growth reductions might force him to lay people off — even before the guillotine actually falls.

Big B, like all of America’s corporate titans, hates “uncertainty,” and Congress has outdone itself this time, McNerney said.

“Sequestration is the greatest example of Washington-induced uncertainty I’ve ever seen in my life,” he said. “Our reaction is to be very conservative … We have to anticipate the worst and hope for the best.”

read more about what McNerney said at DOD Buzz: http://www.dodbuzz.com/2012/05/08/boeings-ceo-warns-washington-get-your-act-together/

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08 May 2012
Climatics and Environmental Testing • Dynamics Testing • EMC/EMI/RFI • Hydraulics and Pneumatics Testing • Military and Aerospace EMC EMI

U.S. Navy’s new sub comes in a year early. How?

This week, General Dynamics’ Electric Boat yard delivered the Navy’s newest fast attack submarine, the future USS Mississippi, almost one year ahead of schedule. The sub’s contract delivery date was April 30, 2013, and the Navy got the metaphorical keys on May 2nd.

Several say says that defense acquisitions are broken and no one cares. So how is this possible?

read more at: http://www.dodbuzz.com/2012/05/03/the-navys-new-sub-comes-in-a-year-early-how/

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17 Apr 2012
Climatics and Environmental Testing • Garwood Laboratories Inc. • Hydraulics and Pneumatics Testing • Military and Aerospace EMC EMI • San Clemente

Navy Hedges bet by looking for a New Son of the Super Hornet

to hedge its bet on the cost strapped JSF, the Navy has quietly released a “market survey” asking the big defense contractors for their “candidate[s]” for “strike fighter aircraft” in the decades to come.

The stealthy F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) is supposed to one day make up 90 percent or more of America’s combat aviation power. But the program has been hit with all kinds of expensive technical glitches and delays. So the Navy has long hedged against the giant JSF bet by buying more of its beloved F/A-18 Super Hornet; that way, the Navy can keep flying modern fighters, even if the JSFs slip. With this “market survey,” the Navy appears to be making a second hedge: a Son of the Super Hornet – one that would come online after the F/A-18s are retired in the 2030s – just in case the JSF flames out entirely.

the new plane will share deck space and fly in a carrier air wing alongside the JSF and the Navy’s future carrier-based drone, currently known as the X-47B.

More from Gizmodo Story: http://gizmodo.com/5902595/navy-looks-for-new-jet-on-top-of-its-trillion+dollar-model

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23 Mar 2012
Climatics and Environmental Testing • Garwood • Garwood Laboratories Inc.

Garwood Labs used in a new Jeppesen Video

Jeppesen, a Boeing navigation avionics and in flight Software company, Used our Garwood Pico Rivera Laboratories in a online video to show how Garwood performs a rapid decompression test to RCTA-DO-160 on a IPad 3

enjoy the YouTube video.

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20 Mar 2012
Climatics and Environmental Testing • Military and Aerospace EMC EMI

Navy confirms cost overrun on CVN 78

A neat look at the political play-by-play on the building of CVN 78, USS Gerald R Ford, and how an aircraft carrier can have a cost overrun while as it stays on schedule.

dodnews link: http://www.dodbuzz.com/2012/03/15/navy-confirms-cost-overrun-on-cvn-78/

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14 Mar 2012
Climatics and Environmental Testing • EMC/EMI/RFI • Fire Resistance/Spread Testing • Hydraulics and Pneumatics Testing • Space Simulation

Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne do hot fire test of Abort Rocket for Boeing CST-100

Video Caption: Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne has completed a series of hot-fire tests of the 52,000-54,000lb-thrust Bantam demonstration engine for a”pusher” launch abort system on Boeing’s CST-100 spacecraft, under design for NASA’s Commercial Crew Development program. The motor “pushes” the spacecraft to safety if a launch is aborted. The tests were conducted in the California desert.

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28 Feb 2012
Climatics and Environmental Testing • Military and Aerospace EMC EMI

US Navy Railgun now Reality

from the drawing boards, two mock-ups, to huge laboratory test-beds, now to reality. the U.S. Navy has created and built with the help of BAE system, have a working railgun at Virginia a testing ground. The working prototype uses non-aerodynamic rounds to control distance and force.

the issue of electricity, shipboard EMC/EMI, and connection to the shipboard power grid are major hurdles still to overcome.

click on the link below to see a test video

More @ Gizmodo.com

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16 Feb 2012
Climatics and Environmental Testing • Garwood Laboratories Inc. • Hydraulics and Pneumatics Testing • Military and Aerospace EMC EMI • San Clemente

USAF Says Adios to MQ-X & Adjust Predator Orders

US Air force has announced that it has cancelled the efforts to develop the next generation of battlefield drones.

With the continued success of the Predator, RQ-170 and the other UAV and drone systems, the air force has cancelled the MQ-X drone efforts. Many believed the Predator C was the expected winning contender for of this effort.

Another noted issue was that the air force could not keep up the tempo of training enough operators to fly the 48 Reapers delivered each year so it has lower the number of Reapers delivered to 28 per year.

read more at DODBuzz

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14 Feb 2012
Climatics and Environmental Testing • Dynamics Testing • EMC/EMI/RFI • Garwood Laboratories Inc. • Hydraulics and Pneumatics Testing • Military and Aerospace EMC EMI

US Air Force goes COTS on planned LRS-B

The air force has quietly announced that it is has began work on a new strategic bomber to replace the ageing B-52 and assist the 21 plane B-2 force on the future battle space. The air force has promised that the new Long Range Strike Bomber (LRS-B) will try to control its budget by using tried and fielded systems and not over use of new technologies in the systems.

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11 Jan 2012
Climatics and Environmental Testing • Dynamics Testing • Garwood Laboratories Inc. • Hydraulics and Pneumatics Testing • Military and Aerospace EMC EMI

SNA: The Navy’s next LCS dilemma

Great article on the top naval brass vision of a new brown water navy with the LCS class of ships and how the resistance by blue water Aegis Mafioso admirals who are working to sink it.

Story Link: http://www.dodbuzz.com/2012/01/10/sna-the-navys-next-lcs-dilemma/

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