Defense Daily Archive
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Wednesday, February 25, 2026
- Army Will Issue CSO Soon To Move Forward With Procuring Common Tactical Truck
- Pentagon Reconciliation Funding Has $4.5 Billion For B-21, As Northrop Grumman And Air Force Agree To Acceleration
- Air Force Starts Inert, Captive Carry Weapons Testing For CCA
- USAF Primed To Buy Large Number Of KC-46s In FY 2027; No Look At KC-390
- Counter-Drone Marketplace Operational With Over 1,600 Items, DoD Says
- Rolls-Royce F130 Engine For B-52 Passes Altitude And Operability Testing, Company Says
- Ursa Major Unveils Hypersonic Missile System It Says Is Affordable, Rapidly Producible
- Official: Army’s Plan Remains ‘Buying Less’ JLTVs, Doesn’t Foresee Fleet Divestments
- Leonardo DRS Ends Strong Year With Robust Fourth Quarter
- Net Income Soars At Kratos In Fourth Quarter And 2025
- Turbojet Engine Manufacturer PBS Aerospace In Subcontract With Zone 5
- Strong Fourth Quarter Despite Gov Ops Decrease For BWXT
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Tuesday, February 24, 2026
- Pentagon Details Plan To Increase Reconciliation Spending To Over $150 Billion In FY ‘26
- GPS-IIIF Will Change “Calculus” Of Adversaries Seeking To Counter GPS, Lockheed Martin Official Says
- F-22 Fighter, MQ-20 Avenger UAS Demonstrate Manned-Unmanned Teaming
- USAF Test Pilot School And Lockheed Martin Collaborate On Automatic SAM Avoidance
- Kratos, GE Win Air Force Contract For GEK1500 Engine Preliminary Design
- “Not Sure How They Get To Where They Wanna Be,” Calvert Says of $1.5 Trillion Defense Topline Proposal
- AST SpaceMobile Nabs First Space Development Agency Award Under Europa Effort
- Austal Nabs $2.8 Billion Contract To Build Eight LST-100 Landing Craft For Australia
- Aalyria Posts $100M Series B Funding Round
- U.S. Intelligence: China conducted 2020 Explosive Nuclear Test, Revamping Arsenal
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Monday, February 23, 2026
- Defense Watch: F-47 Engine, Army News, Leidos Realigns, New SRM Facility
- Army Meets With Industry To Discuss Modernizing 12-24 UH-60M Black Hawks Annually
- BAE Systems To Develop 300 Prototypes For AGR-20F Upgrades Against Drone Swarms
- Navy To Test Unmanned Tailored Force Pairings With Roosevelt Strike Group; Small USV With LCS
- DoD Wants Space-Based Commercial Imagery Solutions For Domain Awareness In GEO
- Boeing Adds $10 Million EO/IR Production Line At Satellite Facility
- DoD Acquisition And Sustainment Office To Use Obviant’s Data Visibility Platform
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Friday, February 20, 2026
- Hegseth Hints At Potential Boeing Deal To Work Rapidly On ‘Exquisite Systems’ For Munitions
- Embraer Pledges $500 Million Investment In U.S. Production Of KC-390, If Sizeable Domestic Order Placed
- Navy Seeks New Longer Range Anti-Radiation Guided Missile
- Pentagon CTO Confirms Work With Anthropic Is ‘Under Review,’ Pushes Back On AI Use Concerns
- SDB II StormBreaker Reaches IOC On Navy Super Hornet
- Anduril Gets $44 Million In DPA Funding To Expand Rocket Motor Production
- DIU, DoD Partners Make Awards For Proactive Logistics Decision Support Tools
- Spagnoletti Named New CEO Of Ursa Major As Jablonsky Departs
- Trump Gives Ag Secretary DPA Authorities To Boost Domestic Supply Of Herbicide Material Important For Defense
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Thursday, February 19, 2026
- Sentinel Software Development “Slower Than Anticipated,” GAO Says
- Navy Starts LSM Process With RFP For Vessel Construction Manager
- Coast Guard Expanding Use Of V-BAT UAS To Land Operations
- Army Exploring New Effort To Rapidly Deliver Ground Robots For Breaching, Resupply
- Northrop Grumman To Conduct Gap Analyses To Inform Software Support For Next-Gen OPIR Polar
- Australia Invests $2.8 Billion In Future SSN-AUKUS Submarine Shipyard
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Wednesday, February 18, 2026
- USAF Using “ATACMS Technology” To Bolster Parts Supply For MOP
- First Air Force Sentinel Flight Test From Pad Planned Next Year; Service Breaking Ground On Prototype Silo
- Leidos Negotiating Co-Investment Deals With DoD For Key Programs
- HII And Path Robotics Sign MoU To Add Physical AI Welding To Shipyards
- Army Worked With ‘In-House’ AI Tools At European Exercise To Process Thousands Of Targets Daily
- Venom Prototype Flew 71 Days After Design Start, Mach Industries and Divergent Technologies Say
- L3Harris Wins $400 Million Contract For THAAD Motors and LDACS
- SAIC Names Reagan As New CEO
- Seasats Raises $20 Million To Increase Production Of Small USVs
- DoE, Pentagon Transport Reactor, Wright Says Three Small Reactors Running By July 4
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Friday, February 13, 2026
- FY ‘27 Budget Will Double FY ‘26 Ship Procurement Numbers And Focus On Auxiliary, SecNav Says
- Air Force CCA Mission Autonomy Phase Begins With Software From Collins Aerospace And Shield AI
- Marine Corps Pushing For Full 35-Ship LSM Fleet, Next Budget To Fund Up To 23 Ships
- Navy Mulls New Robotic And Autonomous Warfighter Role To Integrate Drones Into Strike Groups
- Space Force Deploys GSSAP Sensor After USSF-87 Launch; Service And ULA Investigating SRM Anomaly
- Pentagon Policy Chief Makes Pitch For NATO 3.0, With Increased European Responsibility
- Use of Commercial Technologies Obviates Need for C-17 Re-engining, USAF Says
- CRS Report Says ‘Little Indication’ Alternatives To AUKUS Were Examined
- DoD Hypersonics Office Makes Six S&T Awards
- Pentagon Invests To On-Shore Optical Display Supply Chain
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Thursday, February 12, 2026
- Coast Guard Awards Davie Defense $3.5 Billion Contract For Five Arctic Security Cutters
- Blue Water Autonomy Unveils Details For 190-Foot USV With Eyes On MASC
- Acceleration Plan Pulls First Columbia Sub Delivery Back To 2028 And Is 65 Percent Complete, Official Says
- Air Force Eyes Boost In Fighter Sortie Generation
- Navy Leaders See Battleship As Force Function For Lasers, Zumwalt As Testbed For Battleship
- RTX’s New Non-Kinetic Coyote Variant Defeated Drone Swarms At Recent Army Demo
- Marines Tap Kodiak AI To Integrate Autonomous Driving Tech With ROGUE-Fires Platform
- Navy Wants Runway Independent Long-Range UAS For Operations From Surface Combatants
- SAIC Lowers Fiscal Year 2026, 2027 Outlook On Softness In IT Market
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Wednesday, February 11, 2026
- Marines Pick GA-ASI’s YFQ-42A CCA To Inform Future MUX TACAIR Efforts
- V-22s to Resume Restriction-Free Flight a Year Later Than Initially Projected
- DoD Completes Initial Review Of Defense Firms’ Performance, But Not Releasing Findings Yet
- CCA And FAMM Early Examples Of New Mode Of Acquisition, USAF Says
- HEO, SatVu and Sierra Nevada Tapped By NRO For Remote Sensing Awards
- Lockheed Martin Invests In Developer Of Manufacturing System For Large Composite Parts
- Navy To Host Unmanned And Strike Weapons Industry Event
- Startup Developing Blended Wing Aircraft For Cargo Use Raises $28 Million
- Proposed UMich Data Center Would Support Los Alamos Nuclear Weapons Research
