Defense Daily Staff
Articles By Defense Daily
-
Nuclear ModernizationGAO Says More Work Needed on DoE Procurements
When it comes to overseeing billions of dollars’ worth of federal contracts, the Department of Energy, and its two nuclear weapons complex offices, still has work to do, a congressional […]
Tagged in: -
Defense Watch
Defense Watch: UKR Production, Israel Arm Sales, NATO VC, Indo-Pacific BDA
Ukraine Production. In a statement delivered on the 1,000th day of its war against Russia, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy detailed his country’s efforts to scale up domestic weapons production, to […]
-
Defense Watch
Defense Watch: Duckworth on Hegseth, Gray Eagle Demo, UAS Prohibition
Hegseth Opposition. Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, has asked her colleagues on the panel to oppose Pete Hegseth’s nomination to serve as President-elect […]
-
Defense Watch
Defense Watch: NGA AI Strategy, UKR Aid, ACV-30, More ASTs
NGA AI Strategy. Mark Munsell, the chief artificial intelligence officer at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, expects his agency to publish a new AI strategy in 2025 given how fast the […]
-
Defense Watch
Defense Watch: Welding School, Bomber Task Force-Europe, Freedom’s Forge, Faulty Welds, New Rheinmetall JV
Welding School. The Navy’s Submarine Industrial base program announced the opening of the John D. Haynes School of Welding Technology at Mount Vernon High School on Oct. 24 to help […]
-
Defense Watch
Defense Watch: SRM Timelines, Air Force C-sUAS, Rocket Ship, Navy Clean Energy RFI
SRM Timelines. A partnership between Lockheed Martin and General Dynamics to add a new manufacturing source for solid rocket motors (SRMs) will result in first article testing in 2025, followed […]
-
Defense Watch
Defense Watch: Apache EW, Shield AI-Palantir Partner, BAE/Konsberg, More AMPVs
Apache EW. The Army has tapped Lockheed Martin to develop the Gen 3 Radar Frequency Interferometer (RFI)/Radar Warning Receiver (RWR) APR-48B system for its Apache attack helicopter fleet. Lockheed Martin […]
-
Defense Watch
Defense Watch: SECNAV Meets With Steelworkers, Malabar 2024, Precision Castparts Settlement, Super Tucano
SECNAV Meets Steelworkers. Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro met with the President of the United Steelworkers David McCall and President of the Wessel Group, Michael Wessel, on Sept. […]
-
Defense WatchDefense Watch: C-UAS, Link-16 Valkryie, Space Logistics, Lockheed Dividend Hike
C-UAS Advice. The challenges associated with detecting an unmanned aircraft system (UAS) in protected airspace, characterizing whether the object is hostile, and if a threat, defeating it, requires layered capabilities […]
-
Nuclear ModernizationNNSA ‘Diamond-Stamped’ First Plutonium Pit For W87-1 Warhead
The National Nuclear Security Administration on Tuesday finished its First Production Unit of a plutonium pit for the planned W87-1 warhead, an agency press release said. The National Nuclear Security […]
Tagged in: