Defense Daily Archive
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Thursday, October 2, 2025
- USAF Wants To Solidify Requirements For Sentinel Silos And Launch Centers
- Army Completes Successful IOT&E For PrSM Inc. 1
- South Korean Arms Agency Decides on $2.8 Billion Buy of L3Harris “Phoenix”
- Army Moving Ahead With Future Howitzer Search, Plans Demos With TiC 2.0 Brigades
- Long-Range Precision Weapons Startup Aventra Exits Stealth
- W80-4 Life Extension Component Diamond Stamped At Y-12, NNSA Says
- DoD Awards Alaskan Mining Company $43 Million To Accelerate Antimony Extraction
- Maxar Businesses Rebrand As Vantor And Lanteris
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Wednesday, October 1, 2025
- Hegseth Teases Update In October On Plans For ‘Generational’ Acquisition Reforms
- More Than $12.5 Billion in Contract Modification for F-35s in Lot 18-19
- BAE Eyes Deal In Early ‘26 To Extend AMPV Production, Teams With Forterra For Autonomy Effort
- Wilsbach Nominated for USAF Chief of Staff
- ATLAS Space Domain Awareness System Ready for Use, U.S. Space Force Says
- X-Bow Wins $191 Million Foreign Military Sale For Rocket Motors
- GD and BETA Partner For Classified Undersea Propulsion
- $705 Million Sale of HIMARS to Australia Approved By U.S. State Department
- Lockheed Martin Starts Land-Based Testing Of Japan’s Aegis Ship SPY-7 Radar
- Firehawk Completes Flight Tests Of Javelin And Stinger-Class Rocket Motors
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Tuesday, September 30, 2025
- Pentagon Says ‘Highest Priorities’ In Potential Shutdown Include Golden Dome, Border Operations
- Kratos Says It Completed PDR in April for SDA’s Advanced Fire Control Ground Integration Program
- DIU to Fund Anduril, Zone 5 Flight Testing of Low-Cost Kill Systems Against Larger Drones
- GD Electric Boat Nabs Another $642 Million Mod For SSN Design And Development
- Navy Looks To Establish Private Sector Consortium To Manage Maritime Industrial Base Investments
- GAO: DoD Lacks Comprehensive Strategy for Issues Arising from Sole-Source Contracts
- USSF May Delay Contractor Site Visit to SATCOM Ops Center
- Army Awards $5.04 Billion Deal To RTX For Coyote Interceptor Systems
- What Happens To The Nuclear Weapons Complex If the Government Actually Shuts Down
- Bollinger Wins First Contract For First Landing Ship Medium
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Monday, September 20, 2025
- Defense Watch: Sec War/Brass Meeting, China Space Plans, Army Acquisition Boss
- Navy And Lockheed Martin Sign $10.9 Billion Contract For 99 CH-53K Helicopters
- Space Force to Field First Space Electromagnetic Warfare Tactical Operations Center, As SIPC Stands Up
- Navy To Discuss Modular Missile Program At Industry Day
- DoD Funds GD, Americarb To Boost Rocket Motor Supply Chain
- USAF Considers Upgrades for Cobra King Missile Defense Radar
- German Defense Minister Details 35B Euro Investment in Space-Defense Capabilities
- Navy Decommissions Last MidEast-Based Avengers Mine Countermeasures Ships
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Friday, September 26, 2025
- Boeing Moves To Relocate Super Hornet Service Life Modification Work Away From St. Louis
- Outgoing Army Futures Command Head Offers Outlook On Organization’s Imminent Transformation
- First MQ-9B for Belgian Air Force Has Debut Flight
- SAF/SQ Owns CRWL, One Contractor That Was On List Now Off
- U.S. OKs Potential $1.23 Billion AMRAAM Missile Deal with Germany
- Navy Prepares Future X-Band Radar Design Competition
- Coast Guard Plans To Spend $350 Million On Robotics And Autonomous Systems
- SpaceX Launches 3 Science Satellites for NASA and NOAA
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Tuesday, September 23, 2025
- Boeing F-47 Build Underway As USAF Targets 2028 First Flight
- Skunk Works Says Vectis May Be Candidate for USAF CCA Increment 2
- Anduril Plans First Collaborative Combat Aircraft Flight In Semi-Autonomous Mode
- Northrop VP Touts Tests of ‘Every Stage of the Missile’ in Sentinel Program
- Textron Delivers New XM204 Top Attack Munition In Support Of U.S. Army Europe Operations
- SDA Sees Path Forward To Begin Testing Space-Based Link 16 Connectivity Over U.S.
- BlackSea Unveils its Medium Unmanned Surface Vessel Bid For U.S. Navy
- New 800- to 1,500-Pound Thrust Class Engines for Munitions and CCA under Development by Pratt & Whitney
- Beehive Plans Altitude Testing Of Frenzy Engine For UAVs In October, Flight Tests In Early ‘26
- Shipbuilding Prices Have To Reflect Labor Pool and Pay Needs, Distributed Shipbuilding A Necessity: Navy Official
- Space Force Awards AV For BADGER Antennas Systems To Support Satellite Comms
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Friday, September 19, 2025
- Amendment To House Defense Bill Would Allow DoD Office To Acquire Equity In Companies
- U.S. OKs Potential $780 Million Javelin Missile Deal With Poland
- DIU, Marine Corps Select FPV Drones, Related Kinetics For Blue UAS Review
- Northrop Grumman Selling Microchips, Related Services To Other Defense Companies
- Army Awards PDW $20.9 Million Deal To Deliver More C100 Drones For TiC Units
- L3Harris Talks Alignment with Outline for Golden Dome
- USAF 621st Contingency Response Wing Lays Out Need for C-UAS
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Wednesday, September 17, 2025
- State Department Will Review UAS Export Requests As It Does Manned Fighters
- Eastern Shipbuilding Confirms Subcontracting With HII For Destroyer Builds
- ‘Longest Known’ AMRAAM Shot Last Year, Production Increase of Nearly 50 Percent, Raytheon Says
- Ukraine Drone Autonomy Firm Swarmer Raises $15 Million From U.S. Investors
- Peruvian Air Force to Get 14 Block 70 F-16s, Related Equipment for $3.42 Billion
- Cloture Filed on Block of Nuclear Noms, Vote Early as Wednesday
- DIU Seeks Non-Lethal Solutions To Thwart Small Watercraft In Homeland Waters
- Anduril and Impulse Space Plan to Run RPO in Geosynchronous Orbit Next Year
- Navy Continues Push For New Second Landing Craft Builder
- BlackSky Nabs Second Luno A Order From NGA For Change Detection Analytics
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Tuesday, September 16, 2025
- DoD Taps Three Vendors For Funds To Expand Solid Rocket Motor Capacity
- U.S. Space Force Space Systems Command Preparing for MGEO Solicitation
- Navy Industrial Base Program Partners With Nikon On Large Format 3D Printing System
- Marine Corps Explores New Radars For MADIS
- Australia Commits $8 Billion To Shipbuilding And Sustainment Facility Supporting AUKUS
- Kopin Nabs Award To Build Color MicroLED Displays By 2027, As Army Eyes Tech For SBMC
- House Wants Annual USAF Minuteman III Sustainment Plan Until Sentinel Reaches Full Deployment
- Digital Manufacturer Divergent Technologies Raises $290 Million In Funding Round
- Missile, Munition Sales To Belgium, Norway Okayed By State Department
- NATO Adopts Front Door Approach to Engage With Space Startups