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KickStart Your Rocket City News Review Hugh Stanley Hugh@myKickStart

KickStart Your Rocket City News Review Hugh Stanley Hugh@myKickStart.com. Governor Bentley to Head Alabama Team at Farnborough Air Show

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KickStart Your Rocket City News Review Hugh Stanley Hugh@myKickStart

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  1. KickStart Your Rocket City News Review Hugh Stanley Hugh@myKickStart.com

  2. Governor Bentley to Head Alabama Team at Farnborough Air Show This is why European Airshows help bring major aerospace investments to Huntsville ..."83 thousand people employed across the state of Alabama in aerospace and defense," "The vast majority of those happen to be housed in Huntsville and Madison County." Dynetics Technical Services president steps down in Huntsville ... Jonathan Whitcomb is retired July 1 after two decades with the business - Stephen Cook, vice president of Dynetics Corporate Development, will serve as acting president SMD Symposium registration open ...highly anticipated event kicks off August 16th at the Von Braun Center and lasts for three days. Jack Conway, former President of Sigmatech, passes July 4th ...He retired in 1993 as Colonel Jack Conway, US Army Program Manager, TOW Missile System. Former NASA space station manager makes plans for commercial outpost ... Mike Suffredini says he’s working on a plan to send up a commercial space module that could be attached to the International Space Station – and then disattached to become the foundation for a private-sector outpost in orbit. Local

  3. Space Biz • In NASA's Contracting Office, Skip the Buzzwords, Please ... “…we’re spending too much time trying to understand cost savings rather than focusing on rqmts.” • Sierra Nevada Corporation Enters Talks with the United Nations on a Dedicated Dream Chaser Spacecraft Mission ... interface control document and payload hosting guide …providing countries affordable access to space • Can Airbus Evolve Into a Space Company? ... wants to consolidate control in order to "gain cost efficiencies to compete more nimbly". • Lockheed and Boeing Want to Put 1000 Astronauts in Orbit in 30 Years' Time ... ULA's bold plan relies on plan to mine space boulders. • DARPA unified space-sensor networks help keep orbiting junk from slamming into something important ... 7 previously separate space sensor networks to form largest space situational awareness network ever assembled • Juno Is Orbiting Jupiter

  4. Companies, Contractors & Characters • Aerojet Rocketdyne consolidates space and defense business units...to save $8 M annually - consolidating its six business units into two: Space and Defense. …to Locate Defense HQ in HSV …the company’s Defense Advanced Programs, known as the Rocket ShopSM, will relocate to Huntsville • How a single defense juggernaut just pumped $1 billion into Alabama small businesses ...NG - prime contractor for ballistic missile defense - to sub-contract $1 B worth of work on the contract to HSV small businesses • Raytheon’s GPS III Ground Network Triggers Review on Costs ...U.S. Air Force said development costs for Raytheon Co.’s network of ground stations for the newest Global Positioning System satellites are expected to increase more than 25 percent over current estimates, triggering a legal requirement to review whether the program should be canceled. • QualisCorp. appoints new COO ...has appointed Carlos Kingston COO • Sierra Nevada Corp. completes first milestone on ISS commercial cargo contract … has completed the first milestone under that award.

  5. DEF Execs & Budget • Four generals nominated for new jobs, promotions... USAF Lt. Gen. John Dolan to become the next director of operations for the Joint Staff at the Pentagon • SMDC Astronaut Detachment changes command ...Lt. Col. Andrew R. Morgan assumed command of the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command/Army Forces Strategic Command NASA Detachment • Leaker, Speaker, Soldier, Spy ...The charmed life of David Petraeus • McChrystal to testify on Capitol Hill next week ...first appearance back on the Hill since leaving the military • Navy riverine boss fired for errors that led to sailors' arrest by Iran • CBO confirms it: Sequestration is a failure ...If current laws governing taxes and spending did not change, the United States would face steadily increasing federal budget deficits and debt over the next 30 years,  • Consultant warns of return of BRAC, sequestration ..."I don't know where this is going to end …not going to be resolved until after the election," - John Simmons

  6. Beltway / Wall Street • Trump 'chooses Pence as running mate' ...Sources close to campaign told ABC News that Mr Pence accepted the offer. • Want to win a satellite spy agency? Hire a lobbyist ...unlike Illinois, Missouri had paid a Washington lobbyist to help persuade the government to build the new National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Western headquarters in North St. Louis. • First female shuttle commander to speak at GOP convention ... Collins, a retired USAF COL has publicly criticized cancellation of NASA’s Constellation return-to-the-moon program… Lori Garver trashes Eileen Collins for addressing the Republican convention ... “Shocked Eileen is supporting this anti-science misogynist. Sorry her legacy is now co-opted by self-interested men.”

  7. Ground Pounder / Vets • Marines strip ‘man’ from 19 job titles: ‘We have reached peak crazy’ ...‘It’s a direct reflection on society’s crybaby political correctness’ • ‘Camo Out’ is going to ruin rolled sleeves for everybody. • What Would a Bunch of Vets Tell the Presidential Candidates If They Were Trapped on an Elevator Together? • Ex-special ops group blasts Hillary and her e-mails • From SEALs to Startups: Special Ops Drawn to Silicon Valley ...A growing number of U.S. special forces veterans are veering off the traditional path of working for private security firms and law enforcement agencies, and instead are heading into the tech industry • World War II Hero Dr. Roscoe C. Brown Dies at 94 ... NYC veteran who flew with the legendary Tuskegee Airmen in World War II, has died at the age of 94. 

  8. Pictures of the Month Hypersonic Grail / Iron Lady 2.0 / Tesla Fatality

  9. Aviation • Airbus Blows Past Boeing In Farnborough Airshow Orders ...plane orders were down 40% • How United Airlines is making its mark on mainland China ... wants to become the dominant US-based carrier serving mainland China • Eye Candy: F-35B Flies To UK For RIAT, Farnborough ...seven hours and 45 minutes ...nearly flawless ride in a comfortable cockpit that included seven airborne refuelings • Lockheed's F-35 Could Be Deployed for Combat This Year If Needed ...very close to receiving combat-ready declaration • Did Russia's New Radar Just Make America's Lethal Stealth Fighters Obsolete? ...the Sunflower low-frequency over-the-horizon radar. • Navy fighters one upgrade away from changing carrier aviation forever... pilots will need fewer traps to get qualified and stay proficient - aircraft will take less of a beating and pilots can focus more on missions. • After Delay, New Air Force Tanker Successfully Refuels C-17 • USAF Thinking Smaller for Spy Planes ...As technology shrinks the necessary equipment, the military is looking at business jets for aerial reconnaissance missions • Lasers Vs. Drones: Directed Energy Summit Emphasizes The Achievable ...How’s it going? Army Maj. Gen. Robert Dyess answered that question by dropping a dead quad copter on the table… After an encounter with a prototype laser

  10. International • Theresa May: Thatcher’s Tougher Successor as Prime Minister … should not be underestimated. • Anger that fueled Brexit similar to resentment shaking core of U.S. politics • What we know so far about the deadly truck attack in Nice, France ...third large-scale terror attack in 18 months • The Fight Inside China Over the South China Sea ...Even Beijing isn’t sure what it wants.

  11. Missile Defense • Congress is Right to Ground the Runaway Blimp • … AIR DEFENSE: North Korea Friends JLENS • Missile test could give N. Korea ICBM by 2020: US think-tank • …. N. Korea test fires two powerful, mid-range missiles • South Korea announces site for US anti-missile system opposed by China … China and Russia oppose the THAAD deployment on South Korean soil because its X-band radar can monitor their territories • Planetary Defense … [HSV] Dinosaurs were fearsome creatures. Some had thick scales, sharp teeth, and, in many cases, lightning-fast reflexes. One thing they didn't have: a planetary defense office.

  12. Transportation • Tesla Autopilot Too Much, Too Soon, Consumer Reports Warns … The bible of American commerce says the feature gives drivers a "false sense of security." • Tesla driver killed in crash while using car's 'Autopilot'… the driver of the truck said the Tesla driver was "playing Harry Potter on the TV screen …he went so fast through my trailer I didn't see him." • Ford F-150 EcoBoost proves less really can be more ... V6 is more efficient and torquier than V8s almost twice the size. • Volkswagen places question mark over future of diesel technology ... "Against this background, we have to ask ourselves whether... we want to spend more money on the further development of diesel,"  • Why car gear shifters are so confusing …use buttons, toggles and knobs to take up less space …leaving more room for cupholders and slots for smartphones. • Putin Jumps Into the Race to Build a Hyperloop ... Nobody in Moscow is laughing at Elon Musk any more.

  13. Strange Torque • What If Cameras Stopped Telling the Truth?… patent awarded to Apple hints at a future where invisible signals could alter the images that smartphone cameras capture. • A 19-year-old created a free robot lawyer that has beaten 160,000 parking tickets. • People are playing "Pokémon Go" in really inappropriate places …Arlington Cemetery requests players refrain from Pikachu hunting on its grounds: • China eclipses U.S. to become undisputed king of supercomputers Takes the lead in closely watched list of the 500 fastest systems on the planet • Mark Zuckerberg building a wall around his 700 acres of Hawaiian land. • The D.B. Cooper case has baffled the FBI for 45 years. …after one of “the longest and most exhaustive investigations” in FBI history, agency quits

  14. All I know is what I read in the papers… – Will Rogers If you would like to try a free two week review of the KickStart business information process, just drop me a line at: Subscribe@myKickStart.com. Thanks, Hugh Stanley, Editor.

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