Month: July 2023
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Homeland SecurityGAO Warns Design Maturity For Coast Guard Icebreaker Years Away
The Coast Guard currently plans to hold its production readiness reviews in March 2024 for its first new heavy icebreaker but a congressional auditing agency last week warned that this […]
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Navy/USMCDARPA Award Options To Liberty Lifter Seaplane Designers
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency last week awarded General Atomics and Boeing’s [BA] Aurora Flight Sciences modifications to exercise option one of the Liberty Lifter Seaplane X-Plane program. This […]
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UncategorizedDefense Watch: Ukraine Request on Tap; Assessing GMD; BAE Positions for Ammo Plant Upgrade
Ukraine Supplemental. Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.), chair of the Senate Appropriations Defense Subcommittee, said last Thursday he expects the Biden administration to initiate the process soon on a new supplemental […]
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Business/FinancialEpirus And Anduril Integrate Leonidas With Lattice Security Management Platform
Epirus last Thursday said it and Anduril Industries this month completed the integration of Epirus’ Leonidas high-powered microwave counter-drone system with Anduril’s Lattice command and control platform as part a […]
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CongressSenate Passes $886 Billion FY ‘24 NDAA, As Debate Awaits With The House
The Senate on Thursday voted 86-11 to pass its $886 billion fiscal year 2024 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), with negotiations now looming with the House to settle on a […]
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ArmyArmy Receives First IVAS 1.2 Prototypes, Bush ‘Cautiously Optimistic’ On Upgraded System
After receiving the first 20 prototypes of the new “1.2” upgraded version of the Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS) headset from Microsoft [MSFT] this week, the Army’s top acquisition official […]
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CongressSenate Appropriators Advance $831.8 Billion FY ‘24 Defense Spending Bill
The Senate Appropriations Committee (SAC) on Thursday voted near unanimously to advance its $831.8 billion fiscal year 2024 defense spending bill. The bill factors in $8 billion for emergency spending […]
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Navy/USMCHouse Committee Advances AUKUS Sub Transfers, ITAR Exemptions While Wicker Holds Up Senate Side For Sub Funds
The House Foreign Affairs Committee this week advanced three bills authorizing the Biden administration to sell two Virginia-class attack submarines (SSNs) to Australia and exempt AUKUS partners Australia and the […]
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Navy/USMCFirst Ships Enroll In Tanker Security Program
The Department of Transportation this week enrolled nine commercial ships in an initiative to provide additional sealift capacity to the Defense Department. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg on July 25 […]
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Business/FinancialSales Higher, Earnings Fall On Pension Headwind At Northrop Grumman In Second Quarter
Northrop Grumman [NOC] on Thursday posted strong sales in its second quarter but like some of its peers, earnings tumbled. Net income fell 14 percent to $812 million, $5.34 earnings […]