Defense Daily Archive
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Monday, March 2, 2026
- Defense Watch: Black Arrow and Blackbeard, Jordan KuMRFS, Epirus and DFT
- Experimental Operations Unit Flights To Spur CCA Increment 2 Requirements
- Army’s Mesquite Facility Not Close To Making 155mm Metal Parts, Re-Scoping With GD
- Army To Solicit Industry’s Prototype Proposals This Summer For New Ground Robotics Effort
- USAF May Reopen Hypersonic Test Facility In Sandusky, Ohio
- Nominal Supports Navy With Software Test Infrastructure Layer In Recent CCA Work
- Rocket Lab Hits Record Revenue In 2025, But Delays Neutron Launch
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Friday, February 27, 2026
- More Than Half Of Increase In Department Of Air Force Future Years Plan Is For Readiness, Lohmeier Says
- Booster Resurfaces As Vulcan Centaur Issue; Rocket Use For NSSL Halted During Space Force Investigation
- Army Accelerates S-MET Inc. II Timeline, Will Begin Testing Prototypes This Spring
- Army To Pick Autonomy Provider For PLS Trucks This Summer, Fielding Prototypes In Early FY ‘28
- Critical Design Review Complete For SDA’s Fire Control Ground System, Kratos Says
- Army Awards Vantor $217 Million Contract To Transition One World Terrain To Production
- BlackSky’s Growth Contracts In 2025 For Second Year
- Redwire Emphasizes Defense Pivot And Maturing Capabilities In 2025 Results
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Thursday, February 26, 2026
- Air Force Acquisition Official: ‘APG-85 Is A Helluva Radar Unless You Don’t Have One’
- USAF And Northrop Grumman Break Ground On Sentinel Prototype Silo
- Army Aims To Complete New Tactical Wheeled Vehicle Strategy In Coming Months
- Wicker Wants Legislation On DoD’s Equity Investments In Minerals Supply Chain
- Spending Plan Outlines How Navy Seeks To Expand UUV Production, Confirms Shift Away From Orca XLUUV
- Marine Corps Affirms Plan To Keep Buying JLTVs, Replacing Its Entire Humvee Fleet
- Avio Will Focus On Defense Tactical SRMs At New Virginia Plant; Options For Strategic Motors
- Marines ‘On Track’ With MTT Effort, Not Testing ND Defense Prototype Due To ‘Budgetary Constraints’
- Battlefield Power Solutions Developer Chariot Defense Raises $34 Million
- New Sub Forces Head Succeeds Gaucher As He Preps For New Sub Czar Position
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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
