Defense Daily Archive
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Monday, June 29, 2026
- Defense Watch: PAC-3 Plant, Quantum Tech Investment, Military Labs Review, ULTV Order
- House Appropriators ‘Concerned’ With JLTV A2 Delays, Shift Funds For Marines’ Second Supplier Effort
- OMB Director Calls For Fifth Public Shipyard, Doubles Down On Foreign Shipbuilding
- PACAF Evaluating Boeing MQ-28 Ghost Bat In Valiant Shield
- U.S. AFRICOM Experimenting With ‘Zone Defense’ Concept For Countering Drones
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Friday, June 26, 2026
- House Appropriators Approve $1.07 Trillion FY ‘27 Defense Bill Amid Reconciliation Uncertainty
- Lockheed Secures $8.4 Billion PrSM Ceiling Increase To Support Production Boost Framework
- USAF Considering EO/IR Upgrade for MH-139A
- House Appropriators Uncertain Navy Will Award F/A-XX Contract By August
- NNSA introduces AI flight test vehicle
- Longtime Space Force senior heads to Nuclear Weapons Center
- Mitsubishi Electric Contracts MDA Space for Digital Payload for Japanese Defense Satellite
- Capella Validates Mynaric Optical Terminal on Latest SAR Satellite
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Thursday, June 25, 2026
- White House’s Supplemental Request Seeks $67.1B For Iran War Costs, Including $21B For Munitions
- House Appropriators Concerned With ‘Risky’ Reconciliation Approach To Fund Munitions, F-35 Plans
- Lockheed Martin Nabs $35 Billion THAAD Contract For Framework Agreement
- Space Force Awards Boeing $2 Billion MUOS Service Life Extension Contract
- House Appropriators Add Restrictions And Reporting Requirement To Battleship, Reject Cut
- $300 Million for FAMM Pulled Forward By House Appropriators
- Lawmakers Push Shipbuilding Accountability And Submarine Reports In House Appropriations Bill
- BAE Systems to Build Buses for Vantor’s Vantage Imaging Satellites
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Tuesday, June 23, 2026
- Baldwin Concerned With Army’s JLTV ‘Mismanagement,’ Seeks Support For Marines’ Procurement Plans
- L3Harris Delivers Air Force One Bridge Aircraft
- Rocket Lab Launches Responsive Victus Haze Mission for Space Force
- Army Picks Anduril For NGC2’s Common Data Baseline As It Builds Beyond Prototyping
- MDA Space to Acquire Blue Canyon from Raytheon to Reach US Defense Market
- Navy Demos Dual Use Laser For Power Transfer And C-UAS
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Monday, June 22, 2026
- Defense Watch: Abrams Update, SSN-788 Ready, UAS and C-UAS News, FMS Deals
- SASC Cites Concern With Army’s sUAS Approach, Seeks Info On Plans To Scale Fielding
- Air Force Examining Long-Term Buy Of 130 New Weapons Pylons For B-52Hs
- SASC Bill Would Raise Amphib Requirement To 33 Ships
- Energy Fuels Gets DoD Investment To Expand Into Expand Rare Earth Supply Chains
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Thursday, June 18, 2026
- General Atomics And Anduril Continue Into CCA EMD; Shield AI, Collins, And Anduril Picked For Mission Autonomy
- Army ‘Looking At Options’ For Supporting Munitions Boost Plans If Reconciliation Fails, Official Says
- Senate Authorization Bill Restricts Building Navy Warships Overseas With Limited Exception For Auxiliaries
- Castelion Nabs First Delivery Award For Blackbeard Hypersonic Weapon
- Army Plans To Initiate ISV-Heavy Competition Later This Year, Official Says
- Austria In Line For Potential $1.5 Billion Black Hawk Buy
- Build Of At Least 45 MQ-9s By Start Of FY 2029 Required By SASC Bill
- Retired Admiral Breckenridge Tapped As Shipbuilding Advisor
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Wednesday, June 17, 2026
- Trump Leverages Defense Production Act To Boost Munitions Collaboration Within Industry
- ‘Right To Repair’ Reform In SASC’s FY ‘27 NDAA Sets “Government-Purpose Rights’ As Default
- Lockheed Martin Exploring Production Help With GM Defense
- Mach Industries Wins DIU Contract For Runway-Independent Navy Drones
- Kaine On Iranian Girls School Strike: “You Can Be Sure We’re Gonna Get The Answer To That One”
- Space Force Looking Into Architecture For Epoch 3 And Epoch 4
- Pentagon Loaning $500 Million To Rare Earth Element Processing Company For Expansion
- Gilat to Acquire Comtech’s Satellite and Space Business, Targeting US Defense Growth
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Tuesday, June 16, 2026
- More Than 20 Companies In The Running For CCA, Increment 2, Air Force Says
- GAO Recommends Navy Improve Drone Development Via Reorganization, Iterative Approach
- Shield AI, Destinus Demonstrating Collaborative Autonomy Between Drones For Use In Ukraine
- Pentagon May Make ‘Tradeoffs’ For Low-Cost Autonomous Tech Without Reconciliation Funds, CTO Says
- U.S., Other Powers Increased Spending On Nuclear Weapons In 2025, ICAN Report Finds
- Honeywell To Complete Aerospace Spin-Off On June 29
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Monday, June 15, 2026
- Defense Watch: Budget Progress, Tanker News, AIA Concerns with Bill, VAMPIRE Order
- SASC’s FY ‘27 NDAA Sticks With Army’s Plan For Legacy Aviation Procurement Cuts
- Proposed Elimination of SDA And Space RCO Faces Opposition
- CSIS Releases Report On Rocket Motor Industrial Base Challenges And Opportunities
- CBP Awards Anduril $363 Million For Extended Range Surveillance Towers
- BWXT, ATI Extend Naval Nuclear Propulsion Supply Agreement Through 2030
