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ISSUE #24 Legislative Insights: U.S. Congress sets up Budget Markers for 2018 Defense Policy Bill ----Why must the House Bill exceed the $696 billion versus the current 2018 spending caps of $549 billion?

To answer that question we must review the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that outlined the 2018 military policy, suggested budget, increase in military personnel pay, more ships, plans, and recruitment of military personnel.

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The continuing evolution of regular and asymmetric threats...

...from both state and non-state actors, threatens the ability of MENA’s armed forces to continue projecting capabilities; this also poses a threat in the delivering of security and stability in a region severely lacking both. Traditionally MENA military capabilities are either viewed either in relation to its deficiency in capable manpower, or in regards to its ability to procure modern and advanced weaponry.

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GMCStream Flash News July 12, 2017 @ Richard Kusiolek. The Lessons of Y2K for Cybersecurity “The Y2K event went out with a whimper and not a bang, but not because the issue wasn’t serious. The potential for massive data disruption was there, but government and industry rallied to address it before the January 1, 2000, deadline. The millennium bug was squashed because stakeholders with a lot to lose attacked it in a coordinated effort. That approach can serve as both a lesson and a model for the latest security challenge: the cyber bug.

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“NASA's Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft, the first U.S. mission to sample an asteroid, will travel to the near-Earth asteroid Bennu, arriving in 2018, to survey the surface, retrieve at least 60 grams (2.1 ounces) of surface material, and return it to Earth in 2023 for study.

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GMCstream Flash News June 23, 2017 @ Richard Kusiolek. - Could ISIS attempt cyber take-downs of USA Airlines?After the Paris Air Show, a newspaper writer speculates that cyber hacking threats are a reality for Boeing and Airbus pilots.

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...tries to create a business model in Stanford University Cube-SAT cheap data collection.

John McLucas wrote in “Space Commerce-Frontiers in Space” that Space Commerce relates the story of private enterprise's unsteady rise to prominence as a major influence on world space policy and research. 

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June 22, 2017 © by RTKusiolek -Flash News

Boeing received a signed agreement to buy 125# 737 MAX 8 aircraft. Ruili signed an MOU for 20 MAXs and AerCap converted 15 of its existing 737 MAX orders into MAX 10s.Airbus announced an MOU with Iran Air tour for 45 A320 NEOs.

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According to a July 22, 2016 article by Sam LaGrone, “A U.S. guided missile destroyer and an amphibious warship are set to operate in the Black Sea as part of the Sea Breeze 2016 exercise hosted by Ukraine and the U.S., the Navy announced on July 22, 2016.

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HawkEye 360 fails to gain key Financing and clear Launch times

HawkEye 360--- Address: 13873 Park Center Rd #550n, Herndon, VA 20171 Phone:(571) 203-0360. HawkEye 360, Inc. Funding round from Allied Minds was “$17.0 million proceeds from the financing round at Federated Wireless in January 2016 and $1.9 million from issuance of share capital in Allied Minds, ABLS Capital and HawkEye 360.”

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Is Lockheed’s F35 Lightening II a real Stealth Fighter? In 2010, Lockheed Martin promoted stealth, battle space awareness, performance and sustainment and stated that the F-35 the world's only 5th generation multi-role fighter. “The F-35’s integrated sensors, information and weapons systems give pilots an advantage over potential threat front-line fighter aircraft.

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