The Big Board

Dear Members and Friends,

Last night at our nation’s oldest Military Academy, on the banks of the Hudson River in New York, the approximately 1,000 corps of cadets of this year’s graduating class, in a West Point tradition called Post Night, chose their first posts, in order based on class rank.

MDAA Alert: Duty, Honor, Country

United States Military Academy, West Point, NY

Dear Members and Friends,

Protruding west on the high ground, forcing the massive Hudson River to  bend, is the strategic point chosen by then General George Washington to defend New York. Upon that ground a fort was established; one of the first built and paid for by the U.S. Congress. This natural location on the west point forced sailing ships to navigate around a massive curve in the river, tacking up wind against the current from New York City and blocked sailing ships coming south from the St. Lawrence waterway in Canada. These factors, along with field artillery and heavy chains put across the river, deterred the world’s greatest Navy and the world’s greatest weapon of the time, the “man-of-war” sailing ship, from splitting the young colonies and dividing the fledgling nation.

Northrop Grumman Delivers First Hardware Developed for Integrated Air Defense System

On Wednesday, Northrop Grumman rolled out a prototype Army air defense battery engagement operations center – the first piece of hardware the company has developed under contract for the Integrated Air and Missile Defense Battle Command System, or IBCS.

Getting IBCS in the hands of soldiers is our “number one priority,” said Brig. Gen. Roger Mathews, commandant of the Army’s Air Defense Artillery Center at Fort Sill, Okla. “So today is a big day.”