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Defense Daily
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Cal Biesecker
Articles By Cal
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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
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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
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SpaceAST SpaceMobile Nabs First Space Development Agency Award Under Europa Effort
The Space Development Agency (SDA) on Monday said it has awarded a $30 million prototype contract to AST SpaceMobile, Inc. [ASTS], to demonstrate low-latency tactical satellite communications using the company’s […]
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Unmanned SystemsF-22 Fighter, MQ-20 Avenger UAS Demonstrate Manned-Unmanned Teaming
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI), and the Air Force recently conducted a second teaming demonstration between a F-22 fighter aircraft and the company’s MQ-20 Avenger unmanned aircraft system (UAS) […]