KickStart

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KickStart Your Rocket City News Review Hugh
Stanley Hugh_at_myKickStart.com
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Networking Opportunities

• 8/20 1130 SAME Lunch Madison Square Holiday
  Inn Range of the Future
• 8/21 1115 HAMA Lunch Marriott Tom Kallam,
  AMCOM
• 8/31 AIAA Space and Astronautics Forum and
  Exposition (SPACE 2015) - Pasadena, CA
• 9/01 NAITA Export Control Update Westin Kevin
  Wolf
• 9/07 Labor Day Federal Holiday
• 9/09 0800 DAU Acquisition Update 7115 Old
  Madison Pike
• 1730 UAH College Business Entrepreneurship
  Roundtable Chan Auditorium
• 9/10 NGAUS 137th General Conference Nashville,
  TN
• 9/11 Patriot Day 9/11/01
• 9/12 1200 SSV 9/11 Honor Walk SRC
• 9/14 1130 Cyber HSV Lunch Holiday Inn
  Research Park Pat Sullivan 256-799-0213
• 9/15 Joint AUVSI / AFCEA UAS Conference -
  Lockheed Martin CIC
• 9/17 0700 20th Marshall Small Business Alliance
  Meeting - Davidson Center
• 0800 SMDWG?
• 9/22 1600 MRC All-Hands Bldg. 3494A, Rm. 144
• 9/22 1730 CoC Annual Outing Ditto Landing
• 9/23 AUTUMN BEGINS

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Local

• Army Missile Defense Must Step Up Its Game Heidi
  Shyu - We need to enable ourselves to operate
  in a much more contested environment, SMD
  symposium
• WWII Victory Day celebration honors veterans -
  If this celebration today doesnt make you proud
  to be an American said keynote speaker Lt. Gen
  David Mann
• Attendance soars at SMD Symposium in Huntsville
  - more than 4,000 name badges were printed
  about 1,000 more than previous events
• Lucia Cape  biggest ROI on a CoC investment -
  Chamber director gets senior economic development
  promotion - work was crucial on Remington
  Outdoor, Polaris, cience and Engineering Services
  and Boeing Research and Technology.
• Bill Waite passes far to soon - Co-founder of
  Huntsville's AEgis Technologies, dies at 68
• 3 AL cities on 'most educated list' HSV NOT one
  of them.
• The Donald is coming to Mobile  ...but Bentley
  likes Kasich
• Do commercial spaceports have a future? - It
  seems like an awful lot of infrastructure
  dedicated to an industry still in its infancy.

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Space Biz

• One giant leaf for mankind - Lettuce remember the
  salad days of ISS - Astronauts Get First Taste of
  Veggies Harvested in Space
• The most successful media outlet last week was
  ...NASA(?!) NASA's Social Media Strategy Is
  GeniusAnd Kinda Maddening - dropped an
  Insta-bomb. putting the science team on Reddit
  for an AMA to pulling questions from Twitter
  during live press briefings, the New Horizons
  mission had the social savvy of a tech companys
  product rollout.
• Frustrated Bolden Urges Congress to Fund
  Commercial Crew, Announces 490 Million Contract
  Modification With Russia - Bolden calls for
  support of Commercial Crew in letter to Congress
  - The US rocket program has veered off course
  yet againand that means paying Russia more
• 8 minutes of RS-25 Mississippi ground-pounding
  smoke and fire - Watch NASA test fire a Space
  Launch System rocket engine - Aerojet
  Rocketdyne's RS-25 Engine Completes Key
  Full-Duration (535 seconds) verification test at
  NASA's Stennis Space Center
• SpaceShipTwo 'Pilot Was Thrown From The Vehicle'
  High In Atmosphere - Pilot told the NTSB that
  when the flight went wrong, he heard a loud bang,
  and then what sounded like "paper fluttering in
  the wind" - Siebold Shouted Yeehaw! Seconds
  Before Disaster Struck.
• Russia schedules first Proton rocket launch since
  crash - Proton-M rocket should blast off from
  the Baikonur on August 28 carrying a British
  Inmarsat-5F3 communications satellite.

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Space Exploration

• No place like home?   ...Have you heard about
  Kepler 452b? - Earth 2.0 What we know about
  Kepler 452b, the most Earth-like planet ever ...
  - It's slightly warmer than Earth, slightly
  larger, could have liquid water on the surface
  and it's 1,400 light years away
• Mark your calendar - end to the universe can be
  penciled in - 'The Universe is slowly dying,'
  study shows with unprecedented precision -
  just not what it was 2 billion years ago
• NASA-Funded Study Finds Lunar Resources Could Cut
  Space Exploration Cost By 10B A Year -
  conducted by two non-profit organisations focused
  on the future plan of space stations on the moon
• NASA wants to send microbes to Mars to prepare
  for human habitation - Terraforming has long
  been a staple of science fiction. The theoretical
  process involves artificially altering a planet's
  atmosphere and climate to be more accommodating
  for human life.
• How fast is EM drive?  ...Mars vacay on a weekend
  - Space shuttle powered by MICROWAVES could be
  the future of space travel - Powered by
  microwave energy delivered wirelessly to a heat
  exchanger Nasa's 'impossible' EM Drive
  propulsion DOES work - German scientists
  confirm viability of super-fast space travel that
  could slash a journey to the moon down to 4 HOURS
  - Heres why scientists havent invented an
  impossible space engine - Actual peer reviewed
  papers aren't making "Earth to Moon in four
  hours" claims.

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Beltway

• Can DC survive without burgeoning war fund
  budget? - How Pentagon war fund became a budget
  buster Washington can't resist - The Overseas
  Contingency Operations account, or OCO, has been
  tapped to fund tens of billions of dollars in
  programs with questionable links, or none, to
  wars, according to current and former U.S.
  officials, analysts and budget documents.
• Are we seriously talking about shutdowns again?
  - Come Sept. 30, the deal struck in December
  2013 to lift the Budget Control Act caps expires
  -- which means sequestration is back. 
• Harry Reid Let's Not Wait Until the Last Minute
  to Avoid a Shutdown - He said Democrats
  public and private calls for a deal to bridge the
  massive divide between Republican spending levels
  and Democratic priorities have been met with
  nothing but silence.
• Agencies brace for looming sequestration cuts -
  Unless Congress acts, in less than two months,
  the dreaded automatic budget cuts known as
  sequestration are scheduled to return
• Senate confirms the next members of the Joint
  Chiefs of Staff - Gen. Mark Milley to be chief
  of staff of the Army, Adm. John Richardson to be
  chief of Naval Operations, and Lt. Gen. Robert
  Neller to be general and commandant of the Marine
  Corps

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Companies / Contracts / Characters

• 21 HSV Companies named to Forbes 5000 fastest
  growing companies - Trident, Thompson Gray,
  Five Stones, Appleton Learning, Monte Sano,
  enVention, IronMountain, ProjectXYZ, GATR, Torch,
  US Diagnostics, Amanda Howard, Manufacturing
  Technical Solutions, PeopleTec, Summit, Xarisma,
  nLogic, Pinnacle Solutions, Summit 7 Trideum
• Aerojet reports 18.4 million quarterly profit
  - thanks in part to gains from a sale of surplus
  land in Folsom
• Palantir hauls in 450M in funding, valuation
  officially hits 20B - The news comes as a
  number of VC-backed companies have been out
  raising huge rounds of funding, instead of going
  public, in a phenomenon that has become known as
  a "private IPO."
• Is Lockheed Martin too big too fail? - has
  made itself dominant on Capitol Hill with
  defense jobs in virtually every state.
• Qualis promotes Roderick Duke to president, BOD.
  - executive VP since March 2013.
• ManTech divests cyber business ... sort of -
  company is selling ManTech Cyber Solutions
  International to CounterTack but at the same time
  the company is making an equity investment in
  CounterTack.

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Pictures of the Month
NK Ejection Seat Doilies / Women Rangers / Honda
S660
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Aviation

• Report Problems Force Delay For Sikorsky's
  Heavy-Lift Navy Helicopter - the CH-53K King
  Stallion, has had its first flight delayed by
  gearbox problems, the Wall Street Journal
  reported. The Navy is testing the fix, the report
  said.
• Avwatch, Martin Aircraft move forward to market
  Jetpacks in North America - The signing of the
  agreement builds on the strategic relationship
  developed between Avwatch and Martin Aircraft
  during the previous 12 months under an existing
  Letter of Intent between the parties.   This next
  step paves the way for a future delivery of a
  Martin Aircraft package with 3 manned Jetpacks, 3
  unmanned Jetpacks and a simulator.
• Suddenly, Scramjet Tech Is Everywhere - could
  be coming to an airport near you.
• Boeing and DARPA Aim for Mach 10 - XS-1 short
  for Experimental Spaceplane One is meant to
  test out a new way of quickly and cheaply
  launching satellites into low orbit
• Stratolaunch Will Soon Be the Largest Plane in
  the World - features two fuselages, six Pratt
  Whitney jet engines, 28 landing gear wheels, and
  a whopping 385 foot wingspan.
• After 5-year boom, Boeing may sell fewer planes
  than it builds next year
• 'Dead Meat' in the Skies F-35 Will Be Torn to
  Pieces by Old Fighter Jets - controversy is
  still simmering .prompting the question what
  if we had dropped the F-35 many years earlier?

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International / FMS

• What can Iran hide in 24 days?
• U.S., Cuba Restore Full Diplomatic Ties After
  Five Decades - More than a half century of Cold
  War and lingering enmity came to an abrupt but
  quiet end on Monday
• New US Weapons for Israel Meant to Recue
  Opposition to Iran Deal - Carter pledged
  to maintain US funding for the Israels Iron Dome
  and Davids Sling anti-ballistic missile (ABM)
  defense systems at a press conference in Tel Aviv
• Latvia to buy Stinger ground-to-air missiles from
  US
• Canada will Buy Israeli Iron Dome-like Radar
  Systems - The defense ministry put the cost of
  the 10 medium range radar systems at 187.2
  million.
• Egypt More F-16s on Hold - The total value
  could be as high as 3.2 Billion
• Philippines hikes defense budget 25 amid China
  tensions - would be used to acquire navy
  frigates and patrol aircraft, budget and defense
  officials told Agence France-Presse.
• Japan reveals the largest defense budget for 2016
  - budget for next year will likely surpass 5
  trillion yen (40.2 billion U.S. dollars) for the
  first time, and hit an all-time high.
• Despite Sanctions, Russian Defense Revenues
  Soaring - Russia demanding ownership of the
  North Pole
• China's Navy Drills in South China Sea -
  China's New Islands Are Clearly Military, U.S.
  Pacific Chief Says - China Conducts Live
  Firing Drill In Disputed South China Sea

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Missile Defense

• How close can we get to a singular response to
  multiple warheads?
• Lockheed to Design Missile That Hits Multiple
  Warheads - We will devise and explore the
  most effective solutions for destroying more than
  one warhead with a single interceptor, an
  important step in changing the cost curve for
  missile defense engagement, - Missile Defense
  Agency eyes multiple-object kill vehicle -
  Contact awards to Lockheed Martin and Raytheon,
  announced Aug. 11, are valued at 9.7 million and
  9.8 million, respectively, and call for
  developing prototype concepts by May 2016
• SM-6 Dual 1' Defeats Ballistic and Cruise
  Missiles on a Live Firing Test - The SM-6 was
  designed from the start to defeat air breathing
  targets such as cruise missiles, but the recent
  test was the first to demonstrate the modified
  variant's capability to defeat ballistic threat
  missiles in their final seconds of flight.
• Pentagon awards JAGM development contract -
  Lockheed Martin has received a USD66 million EMD
  contract for JAGM The missile will be
  integrated onto the Apache and Viper attack
  helicopters while the production line is
  qualified
• Navy Restricts Use of A Number of SM-2 Missiles
  Following USS The Sullivans Launch Failure -
  The older missiles have been restricted to
  Wartime Use Only
• Russia steps up demand for U.S. to drop European
  missile shield - urged the United States on
  Friday to scrap plans to station parts of a
  missile shield system in Europe now that Iran has
  reached an agreement with world powers to limit
  its nuclear program.
• Hypersonic Weapons Race Gathers Speed - what
  nation wouldnt want a weapon that closes in on
  its target at Mach 10?

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Cyber / Tech

• Wiped Clean?  Hillary's SERVERS KEPT IN BATHROOM
  CLOSET... - FBI 'Optimistic' can recover
  data... - "It's being turned into a partisan
  attack connected, unfortunately, with the
  continuing Republican partisanship over Benghazi,
  which was a great tragedy and has already been
  investigated from one side to the other."
• IRS cloud breach blooms to 330K over night
• Hackers Give Orders to German Missile Battery
  - German-owned Patriot missiles stationed in
  Turkey were briefly taken over by hackers
• Hackers mess with 70 mph Jeep ...wait, Jeep does
  70 mph?! - Hackers Remotely Kill a Jeep on the
  Highway - Fiat Chrysler hit with record 105
  million fine
• Got a car insurance plug-in tracker? ...There's a
  hack for that. - Cars can be hacked by their
  tiny, plug-in insurance discount trackers
• Traders made 100 million scooping the stock
  market - U.S. authorities charged 32 defendants
  on Tuesday with stealing non-public information
  about corporate earnings to make more than 100
  million in a case of hacking for trading
  advantage that officials called unprecedented in
  scope.
• Harvard Student Loses Facebook Gig for App That
  Shows Flaws - he launched a browser application
  from his dorm room that exploited privacy flaws
  on the company's mobile messenger.
• Risk Mgt Exercise So you've shot a famous lion,
  the internet hates you - Now what?

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Strange Torque
Robotic Sports Will One Day Rival the NFL - The
thing that ultimately matters is that the sport
looks incredible on video and fans have a
connection to the players Someone in the
Philadelphia area destroyed this hitchhiking
robot - Robots cant rely on us. Or at least,
not Philadelphians. a Sad Commentary on America
- Collapsed among trash and dead leaves, its
arms ripped off and its skull and brain nowhere
in sight

I haven't opened my MacBook since Windows 10 came
out - Microsoft Debuts Windows 10 Why It's
Being Given Away Free - Is Windows 10 really a
privacy nightmare? Earbuds  just about as bad
as Mom told you - Inconvenient Truth About
Wearing Earbuds -can permanently damage your
ears. One million infidelity site users' data
'leaked'   Man Arrested For Digging Up His
Dead Dad -  so the two could settle a
father-son argument
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All I know is what I read in the papers Will
Rogers