The UAV consists of 5 modules; fuselage, rotor arm, secondary payload, landing gear and battery. Each of the modules has a list of materials used for assembly. I had to calculate the materials cost used to build up the USTAR-Y UAV and the cost of assembling each module. The breakdown of the material cost are by: 1. LRU Assembly 2.…
Shashwat Gulati The presentation given on Friday was by Ben Marchionna, who is a Research Engineer for Lockheed Martin Skunk Works in California. His background includes upholding a comprehensive portfolio of advanced research and development projects on programs including sixth generation fighters, unmanned aerial vehicles, hypersonic weapon systems, and other classified intentions. As part of his selection into the Lockheed Martin Engineering Development Program, he completed a 2-year rotational assignment as a flight test engineer and test conductor for the F-35 Lightning II program. The presentation was about technology development and innovation at Skunk Works.…
POSITION PAPER ON BUDGET CUTS AFFECTING MILITARY READINESS 1. The United States (US) military is the strongest, most lethal military in the world. Leading the way in global defense, the US military is a force to be reckoned with. Having a strong military not only ensures the freedom and safety of American citizens, but ensures that it is able to protect and defend those around the world that cannot defend themselves. Like many of the US federal and state institutions, the military is currently facing steep budget cuts.…
1988, with the deficit increasing by 220%. A Soviet budget plan approved in 1988, if applied, would send the deficit to 125 billion rubles ($75 billion), a 400% increase in debt and 13% of Soviet gross national product (GNP). In comparison, the highest American budget deficit fell at 3.5% of the United States’ GNP. The American budget gradually increased and represented a heavier percentage of the American budget during the 1983 and 1985 fiscal years.…
Contractual Issues SEC was awarded competed for the Orion Shield Project in hopes that it would become a successful R&D effort of $500M spread over twenty years. As the winner of the phase 1 project they were awarded the project with a fixed budget of $2.2M over 10-months. This type of contract would be identified as a Firm Fixed Price (FFP) contract. This means that Gary would have no flexibility of the project costs if the price on any of the components increases. This implies that Gary and SEC would assume any risk, if cost of the good or services increases and is more than originally calculated for (Schwalbe, 2009, p.185).…
In reviewing Lockheed Martin’s market tactics, it is clear to see that Lockheed Martin is a highly competitive firm that is willing to take on their competition directly. Reviewing Lockheed Martin’s tactics, it is clear that they prefer to battle their competitors head on in their market, which is known as “offensive tactics”. Now, offensive tactics is broken down into many categories and each category is a very specific as to the function of its use. Furthermore, a company must be very cautious when it selects one of these categories to utilize as their primary means of operating within their industry, and I believe that Lockheed Martin has done that very thing.…
Because if we had to cut back on military expenses we would have to get rid of some stuff, and give it to people that might in the future turn their backs on us or such. In military expenses we should increase the amount of money soldiers make a year, and also put more money towards special force training of the elite soldiers. We also shouldn’t send troops to other countries over little things like a few Americans getting their heads cut off, we should only think about going to fight against other countries if it effects us a whole lot or one of our good allies a whole…
The recent announcement by the Pentagon of the new created Director of the Innovation position. The position scope is to facilitate and fast track the development and application of the new military technology. The creation of the position was suggested by Eric Shmidt, who is a former Google CEO and is the head of the newly formed Defense Innovation Advisory Board. The Director of the Innovation has not been currently filled. The emphasis and direction of the position is an investment into the Artificial Technology field, moreover Russia and China have been investing in the AI development and innovation for some time.…
Military spending is also known as a defense budget. This is the amount of financial resources dedicated by a nation to raising and maintaining an armed forces or other methods essential for defense purposes. According to national priorities, ”In fiscal year 2015, military spending is projected to account for fifty four percent of all federal discretionary spending, a total of $598.5 billion. Military spending consist of all regular activities of the Department of Defense. Spending money on war, nuclear weapons, and international military assistance are all related back to military…
Drone Strikes Drone Strikes are one of the ways we can fight in a war. There are Pros and Cons to drone strike. They are cheaper than sending out hundreds of troops and tanks. If they are destroyed no US lives are taken. The Cons are that they launch missiles and their radius is hard to control.…
Space Exploration & Why We Should Fund It Space exploration is a really expensive endeavor to the common civilian, it costs billions to operate a mission to space, billions to build the shuttles to get up there. The U.S.A space program NASA has seen less funding each year since 1966 where it peaked at 4.5% of the federal budget down to 1% in 1975 and it still loses funding each year even today! How is NASA staying afloat and it is effecting how long it will take us to achieve reasonable and safe space travel. NASA funding is shrinking, this year the Obama administration budget proposal for NASA was $17.5 billion, below the $17.7 billion budge from 2014, major expenditures include science missions, space ops to the ISS (International Space Station) and public commercial exploration development totaling near $14 billion alone.…
Ronald Reagan 's Policy Towards Foreign Affairs Ronald Reagan was the 40th President of the United States of America. His two terms as president were one of the most important times in American history. Reagan was a very unorthodox thinker compared to other politicians. Unlike other politicians, Reagan did not see things as black and white.…
The T-41 (i.e., the military version of the Cessna 172) had a "simple mechanical" flight control system using direct mechanical linkages. Direct feedback of forces acting on the control surfaces to the control stick (or yoke) provided a natural feel. The feedback was by the "seat of the pants". The trim system was a mechanical linkage connected directly to a trim control wheel in the cockpit. There is no warning in the T-41 if the trim was set incorrectly.…
Military: - 3D printing technology has the potential to play a crucial role in combat. Military applications often need custom designed and miniaturized units. 3D printing can support rapid production and development to fulfill the specialized functional requirements of the military. Army is already using 3D printing in combat zones. 3D printing can influence strategies and tactics of future aerial combat and Air Force is looking into the advanced manufacturing capabilities that 3D printing has to offer.…
The cost of delay has actually risk the project to cost for $12 billion. 1.2 Outsourcing Upon Outsourcing from the journal article of (Forbes, 2015) Boeing made several problems in their decision to outsource their aircraft plan. The purpose is to reduce the project plan time of Dreamliner from 6 years to 4 years and cost from $10 billion to $6 billion however, the project plan does not turn out to be exactly with the plan, Boeing suffer from delay of 3 more year ahead from it planned and thus led to over budget of billions dollars.…