KickStart Your Rocket City News Review Hugh Stanley Hugh@myKickStart

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

2. Networking Opportunities 11/21 1130: NCMA Meeting - RFCU (Wynn Dr.) - Dr. Dorothy W. Huston 11/22 1800: SSV 4th Annual Irish Christmas & Whiskey Tasting - Jackson Center 12/03 1100: NDIA's Prime/Subcontractor Relationships: New Developments and Continuing Issues - 6767 Old Madison Pike, Bldg. 7, Ste. 720 12/03 1530: National Space Club - Dan Dumbacher - Jackson Center 12/03 1730: Association of Proposal Management Pros. Meeting – Aerojet Rocketdyne 12/05 1600: CoC Holiday Open House – CoC 12/05 Quad-A Holiday Party 12/09 0730: MDA Small Business Advocacy Council (SBAC) “Breakfast with the Primes” 12/09 NAITA's Export Control Roundtable/Networking Event - The Ledges 12/10 1730: Team Redstone Tree Lighting - The Summit 12/12 0730: WID Breakfast - Marriot - LTG McQuistion 12/12 MSFC Collaboration Forum – S&RC 12/13 AUSA Army National Guard Birthday Breakfast 12/14 Rocket City Marathon 12/18 1200: MRC Christmas Party – Bldg. 3494A 12/19 0730: PMI NAC Breakfast - "What really goes on in Contracting"

3. Local States salivating for Boeing 777X feast – Haven’t we seen this before? Boeing CEO: 3 months for 777x location decision LEAN Frog Business Solutions, Inc. Wins Top Madison CoC 2013 SB Awd PPT Solutions Wins 2013 Small Business of the Year Award Summit 7 Systems makes 2013 CRN Fast Growth 150 list for third straight year Dynetics Technical Services Receives Marshall Space Flight Center SB Award HSV/Madison County ranked No. 4 on think tank's top 25 U.S. high-tech hotspots list Only one Alabama city on top 100 best places to live. Which is it? Lockheed Martin Slashes 4,000 Jobs MacAulay-Brown, Inc. Awarded $18.5 Million USAF C4ISR Contract Wyle Named 2014 Military Friendly Employer U.S. Space and Rocket Center board names new officers including new chairman – Latest ‘where’s Joe’ siting

4. Month at a Glance Companies: Shift to Foreign Sales International: Friends in need are shopping China Temperament: ugly, brooding undercurrent NASA Emphasis: more partnership, less leadership

5. Space Exploration Here’s the Latest Kepler Orrery Video: One in Five Stars Has Planet in Habitable Zone – Drake Equation gets tweaked Scientists confirm Voyager 1 probe is in interstellar space Russian asteroid explosion data has scientists rewriting models Space Agencies Of The World, Unite: The U.N.'s Asteroid Defense Plan Astronauts Won't Go To Space Until At Least 2021, NASA Inspector – 8 yrs 4 8-balls Mars Rover Curiosity Finds Surprising Amount Of Water On Mars Mars Rover Comes Up Empty in Search for Methane Radiation makes Mars mission unlikely Incredible Technology: How to Launch Superfast Trips to Mars More than 2,700 pay up for a chance to take a one-way trip to Mars India leaps into interplanetary space with Mars mission India Can Send a Rocket to Mars and Fight Poverty at the Same Time

6. Space Biz Dazzling Nighttime Rocket Launch Puts 29 Satellites In Orbit - 1119 – Orbital’s Minotaur NASA puts out call for commercial space taxis Zombie SATS: use it up, wear it out …DARPA Looking for 10 Retired Satellites To Raid for Parts in On-orbit Salvaging Demo Time is ripe for fire detection satellite Turning Android Phones Into Satellites for $3500 Russia Mulls Ban of RD-180 Engine Exports Russia Appoints New Space Chief Russia offers Brazil new joint space projects China sets course for lunar landing this year China started late, but could zoom ahead to lead space race Virgin Galactic needs a few space pilots, kite surfing optional? NBC teams up with Virgin Galactic for 'Space Race' reality TV show California vies with other states in commercial space race

7. Business & Strategy U.S. Defense Contractors Focus on Foreign Buyers UK Considers Creating Foreign Military Sales Program. Eurocopter to Go Commercial With Mississippi Plant Advanced Optical Systems makes touchless fingerprint identification a reality for smart phones, national defense Deloitte hires FBI agent who oversaw probe into Sept 11 attack Jo A. Decker Joins General Dynamics Information Technology Dynetics Technical Services wins Marshall Space Flight Center's Small Business Prime Contractor of the Year CFD Research Corporation - 1st tenant in HudsonAlpha's new building along McMillian Park Davidson Technologies in Huntsville breaks ground on $3.5 million expansion ATK Looks for $1.86B External Funding Deloitte named a global leader in cybersecurity consulting by Kennedy Huntsville's CFDRC awarded DoD Small Business Innovative Research Awd Georgia Tech Launches New Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines

8. Pictures of the Month Mars Iguana / Six Second Toothbrush / China’s CV

9. Aerospace For NASA, the best of times and the worst of times Cygnus: more insurance for NASA's growing lack of game Space Station Traffic Jam Delays 1st Arrival of New Private Cygnus Spacecraft Orbital Sciences' Spacecraft Returns to Earth as Blazing Ball of Trash Happy birthday NASA ...take the day off Government shutdown: NASA turns 55 – and turns out the lights NASA confirms DC once hosted intelligent life NASA defends decision to idle J-2X engine program, not a '$1.2 billion mistake' ANALYSIS: NASA’S NEW ROLE AS PARTNER Really Fast VASIMR Rockets Could Be The Key To Private Mars Travel

10. Defense 'Average Looking Women': The Army's Secret Scheme To Sell Gender Neutral Infantry Military personnel face cuts to pay, benefits New Deal Could Keep U.S. Troops in Afghanistan for 10 More Years Pentagon Faces $52 Billion in Sequester Cuts in January Navy probe centers on 'Fat Leonard' Pentagon spent $5 billion on weapons on the eve of the shutdown Analyst: Historical Trends Suggest Budget Cuts Deeper Than Sequestration Analyst: Pentagon Budget Could Drop To $415 Billion Hagel: Cuts to Pay and Benefits Are Needed APKWS Laser-Guided Rocket Tested On Apache Tank-Bursting Hellfire, The Weapon Of Choice For Buildings that need Killin’ Zumwalt: The Navy's massive, high-tech destroyer …Capt. James Kirk at the helm U.S. Army scrapping 4 chemical weapons incinerators

11. Aviation Russia 'offers Egypt MiG-29s in $2B arms deal' US military sees growth in foreign sales of V-22 OspreyFanning: Air Force Having Trouble Keeping Pilots, and Pay Isn't the Problem Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works reveals a Mach 6 SR-72 DARPA Plans to Arm Drones With Missile-Blasting Lasers The drone that may never have to land Lockheed to Build Army Anti-UAV, Weapon Laser Pentagon investigating Redstone Arsenal's Non-Standard Rotary Wing Aircraft Office over work on Russian helicoptersUS lawmakers ask Holder to back probe. Lockheed-Boeing Plan Joint Bid to Build Next US Bomber Airbus sees global fleet doubling by 2032Boeing CEO Expects Airbus to Surpass Boeing Air Force Mourns Likely Passing of A-10 Warthog New Boeing B-52 Upgrade to Increase Smart Weapons Capacity by Half

12. International Putin says he might run for president again in 2018 Turkey explores options for friends beyond U.S. Awash in oil revenue, Iraq stays on U.S. dole for reconstruction ... High stakes for Putin as his Olympic dream nears China pressing for nuclear talks with North Korea China Says Its Nukes Can 'Easily Destroy' US Cities China Slams 'Dangerous Provocation' By Japan By Shadowing Sea Drill We're #2: Americans Think China Is Taking Over Saudis 'turn to Pakistan to train army for Syria war' US carrier group to make "best speed" to typhoon-hit Philippines

13. Missile Defense Unprecedented Dual Intercept Success for MEADS at White Sands Missile Range Raytheon Successfully Tests SM-6 Missile Interceptors Lockheed Martin Conducts Third Successful Flight Test of New GMLRS Warhead Aerojet Rocketdyne SM-3 Block IIA TDACS Completes Second Full System Hot Fire Testing AIM-9X Block III to Become a BVR Missile DARPA Tests JASSM-Based Stealthy Anti-Ship Missile MEADS System to Identify Friend Or Foe Aircraft Certified by U.S. Air Traffic Control Office U.S. names possible East Coast missile defense sites, but far from decision DARPA Just Spent $26M… On Anti-Missile Laser Beam Drone-killing laser could be the future of missile defense Pentagon To Probe Problems With Raytheon’s Kill Vehicle Russia unveils plans for new anti-missile system, 5th-generation fighter jet Russia's Vladimir Putin orders missile defense shipment to Iran ... US concerned about Turkey's choice of Chinese missile system Lockheed Martin's Aegis BMD System Completes Highest Target Intercept Yet

14. Cyber / Tech Latest $M idea you missed out on: USB condoms 49% of the Links Cited in Supreme Court Decisions Are Broken… an Internet that is always growing... Report: 8 Out of 10 Users Infected With A Trojan > Read this article - then decide if you should be backing up your files every week… Brit hacker hits NASA, Def sites ... tweets it ...busted The media discovers Silk Road Snowden Convinced Colleagues to Give Him Their Passwords 3-D printed metallic gun could shoot $33B firearm industry in the foot Spy court says NSA exceeded bounds, but judges approved all data requests anyway A Single-Atom Light Switch New technique prints ink-based electrical circuitry using a desktop printer Synaptic transistor learns while it computes

15. Strange Torque FAA Finally Lifts Epically Dumb Ban on Mobile Device Use on Planes Woman plans to hand out letters to overweight trick-or-treaters Getting serious about the "any-direction" energy converter RIP Early Bird: 1948–2013 • New tech could beam power from roadside stations to passing electric cars • Teens Are Losing Interest in Science, Survey Finds • To Compete, America Needs 6-Year High Schools • Astronaut Chris Hadfield: 'The Only Thing 'Gravity' Got Wrong Was The Underwear‘ - you're basically wearing a "Halloween costume" of heaters and coolers, have a "big pull-up diaper" on underneath, and your "hair looks like rat fur". • Rare New Microbe Found in Two Distant Clean Rooms

16. All I know is what I read in the papers… – Will Rogers