John Robinson
Managing Editor
Defense Daily
Ph: 703-522-5655
Articles By John
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Friday, May 1, 2015
- Defense Industry Big Winner of NDAA Markup, as Major Programs Emerge Unscathed
- Last Minute HASC Amendment Keeps Strong RD-180 Waiver Restrictions In Place
- Charges, Pension, Lower Sales Send L-3’s First Quarter Earnings Down
- U.S. Must Lead on Unmanned Systems, Mabus Says
- HASC Markup Notes Sparse DoD Briefings on StratForces, Aims to Normalize Communications
- House Committee Approves Two-Year Coast Guard Authorization Bill
- In-Q-Tel Invests In BlueLine Grid Mobile Communications Platform
- First Successful Guided Firing of Meteor Missile From Rafale
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Thursday, April 30, 2015
- GD Opens 2015 With Strong First Quarter
- Air Force Will Scrub Future Launch Competition Without Access To Additional RD-180s
- GOP Budget Deal Retains Increases to Wartime Funding
- House Rebuffs Move to Cut F-35 Procurement
- Northrop Grumman’s First Quarter Profit Tumbles But Beats Estimates
- Despite Protests from Navy, HASC Backs Shortened Cruiser Modernization Plan
- Cochran Suggests Continuing Production Of Coast Guard National Security Cutter
- Senate Appropriator: Full-Scale Nuclear Modernization Should Happen Despite Any Future Budget Crunch
- Australia Requests $1.8 Billion In Follow-On Support For Destroyers And Aircraft
- Unmanned K-MAX helicopter Demonstrates Casualty Evacuation
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Wednesday, April 29, 2015
- DoD’s Next Generation PNT, M-Code, Could Be Fielded Before End of Decade
- Acquisition Reform Legislation Prompts Worries About Long-Term Effects
- Zukunft Says Coast Guard Heavy Icebreaker Fleet Inadequate
- Air Force Issues Key Next-Generation Rocket System Procurement Documents
- Obama Taps Coast Guard Vice Commandant Neffenger To Lead TSA
- FAA Speeding Up Reviews of Small UAS Applications
- Senate Confirms Newman As NASA Deputy Administrator
- BAE Completes Sale Of Its Share In South Africa Land Systems Business To Denel
- SpaceX Launches Turkmenistan Satellite
- 90 Percent In Survey Say IT Security Technology Scrapped Before Or Soon After Deployment
- ManTech Wins $7.2 Billion In Contracts To Support Army Intelligence Support
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Tuesday, April 28, 2015
- FY 2016 NDAA Adds Funding For A-10, Sidesteps Budget Caps
- Pratt & Whitney Calls For Funding Of Component Program After F119 Engine Criticism
- Carter Wants To Lower Entry Barriers To DoD Market For Start Up Firms
- Lockheed Martin’s Indago UAS to Search For Lost Alzheimer’s Patients
- India Requests $96 Million In Follow-on Support of C-130J Super Hercules Aircraft
- MIT Wins $3 Billion Contract To Operate Lincoln Laboratory
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Monday, April 27, 2015
- Defense Watch
- BAE Exploring Sale Of U.S. Government Services Businesses
- Sierra Nevada Corp. Acquires Firm Specializing In UAS Capabilities
- NASA Issues Orbital ATK Stop Work Notice Over JPSS-2 Protest
- Freshman Congresswoman Ready to Add A-10 Funding to Defense Budget
- Small UAS Rule Called Too Restrictive for Small Business
- Raytheon and Jenoptik Partner For Global Patriot Power Generators
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Friday, April 24
- HASC Subcommittees Approve Defense Authorization Bill Proposals
- To Boost Tech Partnerships, DoD Opening Silicon Valley Office
- Sales, Profits Dip At Raytheon In First Quarter
- Lawmakers Push Back on HASC’s Crusier Layup Plan
- Carter Says DoD Fought Off Russian Hackers Earlier This Year
- Navy Mulls Fate of X-47B Unmanned Aircraft
- Bolden Talks CRS-2 Award Slip, Technologies Reducing Human Risk
- Second Cyber Sharing Bill Passes House
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Thursday, April 23
- House Armed Services Committee to Request Additional Funds for F-35, F-18s
- HASC Subcommittee to Beef Up RD-180 Replacement Effort
- HASC Subcommittee Proposes Faster Cruiser Modernization, LXR Procurement
- Boeing Rides Commercial Airplane Business, Defense Execution To Strong Opening Quarter
- Air Force To Move Forward With B-52 Re-Engining, RFP Expected This Summer
- Army GMLRS Alternative Warhead Nears Full-Rate Production Contract
- GAO Finds Two Of 22 Major DHS Acquisition Programs Tracking To Cost, Schedule
- Army UGVs Must Meet ‘Specific’ Roles, Official Says
- First of Two Cyber Sharing Bills Passes House
- FireStorm Targeting System Certified For Use With F-35
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Wednesday, April 22
- Thornberry: NDAA to Include ‘Significant Amount’ of Acquisition Reform Language
- Sales, Earnings Slip At Lockheed Martin In First Quarter
- Poland Picks Raytheon, Airbus For Major Procurements
- DNDO Finishes Assessing DSIC’s Scanning System; Company Gets Interest for Contraband Detection
- Navy Inches Closer To Awarding DDG-51 Flight III Construction Contracts
- UTC Posts Higher Profits As Sales Dip On Foreign Currency Impacts
- DHS Secretary Announces Opening Office in Silicon Valley, NCCIC Updates
- Best Practices Should Be Top Priority for Managing Cyber Security Risk, DHS Official Says
- Proposed NDAA Would Eliminate Manpower Cost Estimate Requirement
- Army UGVs Must Meet ‘Specific’ Roles, Official Says
- HASC Subcommittee Calls for Pentagon to Assess Weapons’ Cyber Vulnerabilities
- Booz Allen Hamilton Nabs Latest GSA Award under Cyber Security Program
- Air Force Expects UH-1N Helicopter Replacement Program Strategy This Summer
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Tuesday, April 21, 2015
- With Websense Deal, Raytheon Has No Qualms With Big Jump Into Commercial Cyber Market
- Air Force Optimistic About 3D Printing Capabilities For Satellites
- Avondale Shipyard’s Fate Remains Unclear
- Navy’s 2016 Budget Would Cut Aegis Modernization for Nine Ships
- First F-35 Training Deployment From Luke AFB
- Lockheed Names New VP for IS&GS Markets
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Monday, April 20, 2015
- Defense Watch
- Cardillo Says NGA At Critical ‘Seismic Shift’ Moment
- CH-53K Program Grappling With Gearbox Glitch
- Marine Corps Adds Special Operations Element to Expeditionary Units
- BAE Announces New Guided Projectile for 57mm Naval Gun
- SRA Acquires Government Services Business Of Qbase
- GAO Finds PortfolioStat IT Cost Savings Fall Short By 68 Percent
- Best Practices Should Be Top Priority For Managing Cyber Security Risk, DHS Official Says