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Defense Watch: FPV Drones, Portugal Fighters, Reaper Pod, Office of Net Assessment Closes, McAleese Conference
First-Person View. Conflicts in the Middle East and Ukraine should spur the Pentagon to put a higher priority on offensive first person view (FPV) drones, according to one lawmaker. “We […]
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Defense Watch: Sentinel Static Fire, Spartan Mace, Guam Challenges, Maven
Static Fire. The U.S. Air Force said that the service and Northrop Grumman conducted “a full-scale qualification static fire test of the Sentinel intercontinental ballistic missile [ICBM] stage-one solid rocket […]
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Defense Watch: AFA Colorado Kicks Off, SHIPS Act, Epirus/Peraton Partner, L3Harris Dividend, Gulf Yards Visit
AFA Warfare Symposium. While top DoD and military service officials have often been absent from conferences in the last four months following the November election, the Air and Space Forces […]
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Defense Watch: Meink Meeting, DoD Workforce, IMX 2025, New UAS, Space Milestones
Meink Meeting. The office of Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) says that he met on Thursday with Troy Meink, President Trump’s nominee for Air Force secretary. Wicker’s […]
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Defense Watch: Saildrones, Hypersonic UAS, PrSM Test
Unmanned Help. As the Navy has reduced its assets in U.S. Southern Command’s operational area, the service has introduced more Saildrone unmanned surface vessels, which are providing “great domain awareness” […]
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Defense Watch: Marine C-UAS, DOGE Alignment, Wicker/Trump Meeting, DEI Savings
Marine C-UAS. A Marine Corps official boasted they are using newly-granted acquisition authorities via a cross-functional team and fusion cell to field a new ground-based counter-unmanned aerial system (C-UAS) defense […]
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Defense Watch: HAC-D Panel Rosters, SASC Panel, DEI, New NSC-68
House Appropriations. Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.), the House Appropriations Committee (HAC) chair, has said he expects the panel’s subcommittees to have topline levels for final fiscal year 2025 appropriations bills […]
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Force MultipliersTim Solms – Slingshot Aerospace
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: Digital Design, Green F-35s, PWSA Ideas, More Tech Hubs
Digital Design. During the confirmation hearing for Pete Hegseth, the nominee for defense secretary, Sen. Deb Fischer (R-Neb.) asked him how he would get the Pentagon to “move forward faster” […]
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Defense Watch: 300 EOs, Forged Act, Reed-Hegseth Meeting, NROL-153, Navy Munitions
Farewell Address. Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall is to give his farewell address at a 2 p.m. ceremony on Monday. Hours before that, Kendall is to participate in a forum […]