Defense Watch

Space Adviser. Deputy Defense Secretary Pat Shanahan will take over the duties of the principal defense space adviser on an “interim” basis, he wrote in a Jan. 17 memo to […]

NRO Launch. A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta 4 rocket carrying a National Reconnaissance Office satellite (NROL-47) lifted off Jan. 12 from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The launch […]

JSTARS Review. The Air Force continues to explore whether fusing data from various air-, ground-, sea- and space-based sensors would provide a better picture than a replacement for the aging […]

Editor’s Note. This will be the last issue of Defense Daily in 2017. Our next issue will be dated Jan. 3, 2018. Happy Holidays! F-35 Production. Lockheed Martin plans to […]

CR Uncertainty. The continuing resolution (CR) that temporarily funds the federal government expires Dec. 22, but what will replace it is unclear. The Republican chairman of the House Appropriations Committee […]

CR Enacted. President Donald Trump signed into law Dec. 8 a continuing resolution (CR) that will keep the federal government running until Dec. 22. The two-week CR, which the House […]

New CR? The House plans to pass a “short-term” continuing resolution (CR) to keep the federal government running when the current CR expires Dec. 8, according to House Speaker Paul […]

RVSS Expansion on Hold. Customs and Border Protection has delayed its plans to expand a sensor system along the southwest and northern borders. The agency told interested vendors in a […]

Budget Uncertainty. Rep. Adam Smith (D-Wash.), ranking member of the House Armed Services Committee, said it is unclear how Congress will keep the government funded when the current continuing resolution […]

Space Revamp. Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson, who opposed a House proposal to create a space corps in the Air Force Department, said she is not yet ready to comment […]