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Defense Watch: SpaceX Contract, Replicator Sandbox, Churn on Hill, LTAMDS Demo
SpaceX Contract with DoD for Ukraine. Last summer came news that Elon Musk, the CEO of SpaceX, had signed a contract in June with DoD to continue providing the company’s […]
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Force MultipliersCarolyn Duby, Cloudera Government Solutions, Inc.
In this monthly column, Defense Daily highlights individuals from across the government, industry and academia whose efforts contribute daily to national defense, from the program managers to the human resource […]
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Defense Watch: Fixed Price Vs Cost Plus, Indemnification, VC Cheers Palantir Win, Drone Corps
Fixed-Price Versus Cost-Plus. U.S. Air Force acquisition chief Andrew Hunter says that the service will continue to rely on fixed price contracts for mature production programs and that the real […]
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Defense Watch: Emphasis On Space Ground Systems, SBIRS High, DHS CUAS Testing, Firefly Expansion
Delivering Ground Before Launch. U.S. Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall has said that the ground elements of space programs have traditionally come with big headaches. Assistant Secretary of the Air […]
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Business/FinancialBWXT Earnings Rise in 2023, Fourth Quarter; DoE Award a ‘Wild Card’
Earnings rose at BWX Technologies [BWXT] for 2023, which the maker of nuclear naval reactors and manager of nuclear weapons sites attributed Tuesday mostly to favorable adjustments on government contracts. […]
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Defense Watch: Rheinmetall/UKR Ammo Plant, Rocket Lab Financing, Maven Day
Rheinmetall Ammo. Germany’s Rheinmetall said on Feb. 17 it plans to open a new ammunition plant in Ukraine. Rheinmetall and an unnamed “Ukrainian partner company” have established a new joint […]
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Business/FinancialFluor Posts Fourth Quarter Loss
Earnings fell at Fluor [FLR] in the fourth quarter, which the engineering and construction company, active in the Department of Energy nuclear weapons complex, attributed Tuesday to a legal settlement […]
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Defense Watch: F-35 Backfill, Pony Express, BAE Deal Closes, VLS Re-Arming
F-35 International Backfill. On Feb. 15, Sheila Kahyaoglu, a defense/aerospace equity analyst at Jefferies, wrote that Lockheed Martin “has a backlog/commitments for nearly 3,500 F-35s with the program generating about […]
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Nuclear ModernizationBill To Block Tax Credits For Pits Percolating in New Mexico Legislature
A New Mexico legislative committee this month passed a bill to stop the prime contractor of the Los Alamos National Laboratory from claiming state tax credits for making nuclear-weapon cores.If […]
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Defense Watch; USAF Munition MYPs, Drone Stacks, Palantir, Voyager Partner
USAF Munition Multi-Years. U.S. Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall says that multi-years “incentivize” industry production line investments and give companies “some assurance that they’re gonna have funding for continued acquisition […]