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Defense Daily
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Cal Biesecker
Articles By Cal
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CongressWicker Wants Legislation On DoD’s Equity Investments In Minerals Supply Chain
Legislation regarding equity investments by the Defense Department in critical mineral supply chains is needed to strengthen the larger defense industrial base and demonstrate to the “free market” that the […]
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Business/FinancialAvio Will Focus On Defense Tactical SRMs At New Virginia Plant; Options For Strategic Motors
Virginia Gov. Abagail Spanberger (D) on Tuesday said that Avio USA Inc. has selected a greenfield site in southern Virginia for a new solid rocket motor (SRM) production facility that […]
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Wednesday, February 25, 2026
- Army Will Issue CSO Soon To Move Forward With Procuring Common Tactical Truck
- Pentagon Reconciliation Funding Has $4.5 Billion For B-21, As Northrop Grumman And Air Force Agree To Acceleration
- Air Force Starts Inert, Captive Carry Weapons Testing For CCA
- USAF Primed To Buy Large Number Of KC-46s In FY 2027; No Look At KC-390
- Counter-Drone Marketplace Operational With Over 1,600 Items, DoD Says
- Rolls-Royce F130 Engine For B-52 Passes Altitude And Operability Testing, Company Says
- Ursa Major Unveils Hypersonic Missile System It Says Is Affordable, Rapidly Producible
- Official: Army’s Plan Remains ‘Buying Less’ JLTVs, Doesn’t Foresee Fleet Divestments
- Leonardo DRS Ends Strong Year With Robust Fourth Quarter
- Net Income Soars At Kratos In Fourth Quarter And 2025
- Turbojet Engine Manufacturer PBS Aerospace In Subcontract With Zone 5
- Strong Fourth Quarter Despite Gov Ops Decrease For BWXT
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Wednesday, February 25, 2026
- Army Will Issue CSO Soon To Move Forward With Procuring Common Tactical Truck
- Pentagon Reconciliation Funding Has $4.5 Billion For B-21, As Northrop Grumman And Air Force Agree To Acceleration
- Air Force Starts Inert, Captive Carry Weapons Testing For CCA
- USAF Primed To Buy Large Number Of KC-46s In FY 2027; No Look At KC-390
- Counter-Drone Marketplace Operational With Over 1,600 Items, DoD Says
- Rolls-Royce F130 Engine For B-52 Passes Altitude And Operability Testing, Company Says
- Ursa Major Unveils Hypersonic Missile System It Says Is Affordable, Rapidly Producible
- Official: Army’s Plan Remains ‘Buying Less’ JLTVs, Doesn’t Foresee Fleet Divestments
- Leonardo DRS Ends Strong Year With Robust Fourth Quarter
- Net Income Soars At Kratos In Fourth Quarter And 2025
- Turbojet Engine Manufacturer PBS Aerospace In Subcontract With Zone 5
- Strong Fourth Quarter Despite Gov Ops Decrease For BWXT
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Unmanned SystemsCounter-Drone Marketplace Operational With Over 1,600 Items, DoD Says
A repository for counter-drone systems and items for use across the Defense Department has achieved initial operational capability with more than 1,600 items, DoD said on Tuesday. The counter-unmanned aircraft […]
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Business/FinancialNet Income Soars At Kratos In Fourth Quarter And 2025
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions [KTOS] on Monday reported strong earnings in its fourth quarter and fiscal year 2025 on broad strength across its operating segments. Net income in the […]
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Advanced / Transformational TechnologyUrsa Major Unveils Hypersonic Missile System It Says Is Affordable, Rapidly Producible
Ursa Major, a startup developing and manufacturing liquid engines and solid rocket motors, on Tuesday unveiled its HAVOC medium-range hypersonic missile the company said can be affordably produced in mass. […]
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Business/FinancialLeonardo DRS Ends Strong Year With Robust Fourth Quarter
Leonardo DRS [DRS] on Tuesday posted solid fourth quarter results driven by higher sales for radar, naval electric power and propulsion, and infrared sensing programs and a tailwind related to […]
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Business/FinancialTurbojet Engine Manufacturer PBS Aerospace In Subcontract With Zone 5
The U.S.-based business of the Czech engineering company PBS Group has signed a subcontract with missile developer Zone 5 Technologies worth “several tens of millions of dollars” to supply turbojet […]
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Tuesday, February 24, 2026
- Pentagon Details Plan To Increase Reconciliation Spending To Over $150 Billion In FY ‘26
- GPS-IIIF Will Change “Calculus” Of Adversaries Seeking To Counter GPS, Lockheed Martin Official Says
- F-22 Fighter, MQ-20 Avenger UAS Demonstrate Manned-Unmanned Teaming
- USAF Test Pilot School And Lockheed Martin Collaborate On Automatic SAM Avoidance
- Kratos, GE Win Air Force Contract For GEK1500 Engine Preliminary Design
- “Not Sure How They Get To Where They Wanna Be,” Calvert Says of $1.5 Trillion Defense Topline Proposal
- AST SpaceMobile Nabs First Space Development Agency Award Under Europa Effort
- Austal Nabs $2.8 Billion Contract To Build Eight LST-100 Landing Craft For Australia
- Aalyria Posts $100M Series B Funding Round
- U.S. Intelligence: China conducted 2020 Explosive Nuclear Test, Revamping Arsenal