Defense Daily Archive
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Monday, August 18, 2025
- Defense Watch: New Icebreaker, DAF Cyber Ops, GEOINT Award, More AMPVs
- Marine Corps Set To Award Neros Contract For 8,000 Small, Affordable FPV Drones
- Navy Plans To Deploy USV In Carrier Strike Group By End Of 2026
- Lockheed’s New GMLRS Deal Supports Boosting Production To 14,000 Rockets Per Year
- DoD Materiel Readiness ‘In Precarious Position,’ Govini Scorecard Says
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Friday, August 15, 2025
- Army Awards Lockheed Martin $4.24 Billion Deal For GMLRS Production
- U.S. OKs Potential $500 Million HIMARS Deal With Bahrain
- Navy Steps Closer To LSM Block I As It Procures Bollinger And Damen Data Rights
- Merlin Labs to Go Public Next Year Through SPAC
- Army Issues Solicitation Notice To ‘Rapidly Procure’ Launched Effects For Fielding In ‘26
- Los Alamos Elevator in Plutonium Facility Faces Technical Failures, DNFSB Says
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Thursday, August 14, 2025
- HELIOS Testing At Full Power For Months But Navy Leaning Towards Containerized Lasers, Lockheed Martin Executive Says
- Army Looks To Begin Replacing Gray Eagles With New STOL/VTOL UAS In FY ‘28
- DARPA Christens Prototype USV, Finishing Testing Ahead of Demo
- Raytheon Nabs $259 Million Contract For SM-2 Block IIICU All Up Rounds
- Bruno: First Military Launch of Vulcan Marks “New Era in National Space Security”
- Ursa Major Static Fires New Extended Range Rocket Motor For APKWS
- Energy Department Offering $1 Billion To Bolster U.S. Critical Minerals And Materials
- State Department Approves $346 Million Munitions Request by Nigeria
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Wednesday, August 13, 2025
- Army Looks To Grow Air and Missile Defense Forces By 30 Percent In Eight Years
- After FTUAS Cut, Army Looks To Field Brigade UAS In FY ‘26 To Replace Shadow Drones
- Leonardo DRS Demonstrates Counter-Drone Package On Unmanned Surface Vessel
- USAF Looking Into AI Parts Management Tools for U-2 Aircraft
- Rocket Lab Adds Payload Capability With Acquisition Of Geost
- BlackSky Heralds New Two-Year Early Access Agreement with International Buyer for 35 Centimeter Imagery
- V2X To Acquire QinetiQ’s Federal IT Services Business
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Tuesday, August 12, 2025
- Northrop Grumman Wins Navy’s Competition For 21-Inch Solid Rocket Motor
- ULA Foresees Significant Ramp Up of Vulcan Launches in Next Two Years
- Air Force Preparing Supplemental EIS for Sentinel, Scraps Three of Four Town Halls This Month
- Army’s Incoming 2040 Air And Missile Defense Strategy Due Within Months
- Navy Begins Looking Into Vessel Construction Manager For First LSM Amphib
- Mack Defense Nabs $221.8 Million Army Deal For More M917A3 Heavy Dump Trucks
- U.S. OKs Potential $160 Million Deal With Canada For 60 AM General-Built JLTVs
- Umbra Offering Satellite Component Hardware To Space Market
- Senators ‘Still Talking’ Topline Near $60 billion For DOE Funding Bill
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Monday, August 11, 2025
- Defense Watch: Icarus Production, Aussies Pick Japanese Frigate, Kratos Growth, Anduril in Taiwan
- Lockheed Using Northrop Grumman As NGI Rocket Motor Backup
- Army Plans To Roll Out ‘Amazon-Like’ UAS Marketplace In Early October
- Systems Integration Review for VICTUS HAZE Completed, Rocket Lab USA Says
- AeroVironment And SNC Pitch Partnership For Lower Tier Golden Dome Bids
- Reduction in Hypersonic Weapon Cost Eyed By Industry
- BlackSky Optimistic for U.S. Gov Opportunities Despite Budget Volatility
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Defense Daily, Friday, August 8, 2025, Vol. 307, Issue 26
// PDF View- Collins Sees Golden Dome As Periodic Upturn in Missile Defense, Tells Industry To ‘Get Ready To Go Fast And Think Big’
- Low-Cost Cruise Missile Funding in Reconciliation Act Awaiting Contract Obligation
- Army Plans To Stop Buying Stryker DVH A1 Vehicle Upgrades
- Army Pushing Right To Repair Laser Weapons, Moving To Interoperability At Manufacturing Stage
- With Congress in Recess, Pending DoE/NNSA Noms Make For a Busy Fall
- Amentum Banks on Nuclear, Defense Growth
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Thursday, August 7, 2025
- Army’s Project Flytrap With U.K. Informs Layered Approach To Scaling Up New C-UAS Tech
- First Next-Gen OPIR GEO Satellite Finishes Environmental Testing, Lockheed Martin Says
- U.S. Space Force Looks to Cloud for Command and Control of Counterspace Systems
- Senators Introduce Bill To Exempt Public Shipyard Workers From Layoffs And Hiring Freeze
- Germany’s Rhenmetall To Integrate Autonomous Underwater Vehicle To Coastal Defense System
- NNSA Deploys Security Simulation Tech at Lawrence Livermore
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Wednesday, August 6, 2025
- Leidos Receives Sea Dart Contract from ‘Classified Customer,’ Reports Increase in 2nd Quarter Earnings
- Lockheed Martin, Rheinmetall Conduct First Test Fire Of New GMARS Launcher
- Anduril to Focus on Mid-Sized Tactical SRMs at Mississippi Plant
- L3Harris Marks New Solid Rocket Motor Plant In Huntsville, Room To Expand
- ULA Vulcan to Have Debut Launch for U.S. Space Force Next Tuesday
- BWXT Enjoys Strong Quarter Led Government Operations
- Senate Defense Appropriations Bill Has Deterrence Reductions, Reconciliation Complaints
- Marine Corps Orders 31 More ACV-30s From BAE, Kongsberg Nabs First Deal For Turrets
- CSIS to Study How to Establish ‘Cyber Force’ As New Military Service
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Tuesday, August 5, 2025
- Union Machinists Go On Strike At Boeing Defense Plants in Missouri and Illinois
- GMTI Satellites to Launch in Next Year, Preceding AMTI for Space Force, Service Says
- Congress Faces Busy September With Looming Shutdown Deadline, Pending Civilian DoD Noms
- DoD Makes Cuts, Plans ‘AI-First’ Transformation For R&D Resource Center