Defense Daily Archive
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Monday, October 20, 2025
- Defense Watch: Wedgetail, Energetics Partnering, Drone News
- Collins Aerospace Unwilling To Sell USAF Repair Data For AWACS DRAGON, Service May Add Repair To Existing Sustainment Contract
- Army Says No Final Call Yet On New Multi-Years For Black Hawk, Apache, May Decide With FY ‘27 Budget
- Official: T901 Engine Testing On Black Hawk ‘Very Successful,’ Program’s Future Still TBD
- Army Wants SkyFoundry To Manufacture 10,000 Drones Monthly Within A Year
- Australia Doubles Sub Supplier Qualification Investments
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Monday, October 13, 2025
- Defense Watch: AUSA Up, German SPY-6, Space Fund, Funding Rounds
- White House Reports Deal For 11 Polar Icebreakers, Selecting Bollinger and Foreign Shipyards
- Senate Passes FY ‘26 NDAA With $32.1 Billion Topline Boost, Adds AUMF Repeal, AUKUS Measure
- No More AWACS Retirements Until USAF Submits AMTI Plan, Senate Says
- Kelly Plugs Increase In F-16 Training For Ukrainian Pilots At 162nd Fighter Wing
- Senate-passed NDAA includes Wicker amendment on Pantex Plant
- Govini Raises $150 Million, Discloses Annual Sales Top $100 Million
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Friday, October 10, 2025
- USAF CCAs May Have Their Own Squadrons
- L3Harris Developing Multi-Domain Variants Of VAMPIRE Counter-Drone System
- AEI Releases Space-Based Interceptor Calculator, Costs Can Balloon Into Trillions For Larger Constellations
- Army Uses IBCS To Help Defeat Cruise Missile Threats In Key Operational Test
- Epirus, GD Partner To Integrate High Power Microwave System On Tracked Robot
- Forterra Acquires Tactical Radio Supplier goTenna To Bolster Communications For Autonomous Solutions
- USAF Looking Into Spares For AWACS DRAGON Program
- Stoke Space Says $510M Round Will Fund Nova Rocket Through First Flights
- HII Tests REMUS 620 Submarine Torpedo Tube Recovery
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Thursday, October 9, 2025
- IOT&E for MH-139A Completed, As Boeing Announces $173 Million Contract for Eight
- Muon Space Tapped By Space Force For Weather Monitoring Satellite Demos
- Acquisition Reform Top Priority for Department of Air Force General Counsel Nominee
- Overland AI Teams With AimLock On Targeting Systems For ULTRA Autonomous Vehicle
- Viasat Plans To Demonstrate PTS-G Design By Middle of Next Year
- SHIPS Act In Commerce Committee, Kaine Says
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Wednesday, October 8, 2025
- AUKUS Can be Strengthened, More Sustainable, DoD Official Says During DoD Review
- Seasats Nabs Its Largest Award For USVs With $89 Million Navy Contract
- Northrop Grumman Says More Than 50 Drones Downed in Arizona in May Demonstration
- Blue Origin Receives Second SSC Commercial Solutions Opening Contract
- GD On Track To Begin Delivering XM30 Prototypes To Army In July 2026
- Anduril, RTX Static Fire Rocket Motor Using Highly Loaded Grain For Air-To-Air Missile
- Mack Defense Nabs Army Order For 86 More M917A3 Heavy Dump Trucks
- Autonomous Drone Navigation Startup Tycho.AI Exits Stealth With $10 Million Raise
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Tuesday, October 7, 2025
- Firefly To Acquire Data Analytics Provider SciTec In Expansion Of National Security Focus
- Sikorsky Developing Nomad Prop-Rotor Drones, Larger Variants May Have 500-Pound Payload
- MDA Extends Golden Dome SHIELD Solicitation Due To Heavy Interest
- USAF Looking To Accelerate NGAS Delivery From 2040 To 2036
- Army Interested In “Smaller And More Agile Design” For IBCS
- Hanwha Picks Former PEO Ships To Lead U.S. Shipbuilding Programs
- U.S. Space Force Considering Upgrades for Three Electromagnetic Warfare Systems
- SAIC To Acquire National Security Technology Firm SilverEdge
- NNSA Funded Until Oct. 10, Energy Secretary Chris Wright Says
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Monday, October 6, 2025
- Defense Watch: DDGs, Shutdown Impacts, NGC2
- SpaceX to Launch Five USSF/NRO Missions in FY 2026, ULA Two
- Mistral, UVision Nab $982 Million Army Deal To Deliver HERO 120 Loitering Munitions
- Army Affirms Rapid Fielding Plan For Boeing’s CH-47F Block II, Will Outfit Two Brigades
- Navy Prepares For Another Multi-Year Round For Phalanx CIWS
- SDA Projects Contractor Personnel Increase Needed for Golden Dome, Custody Layer Support
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Friday, October 3, 2025
- Bussiere to Retire, Lt. Gen. Dale White Possible Candidate for Air Force Vice Chief
- Potential $1.8 Billion HIMARS Sale To Canada Approved
- Inversion Says Arc Reusable Spacecraft on Track for Launch Next Year
- West Faces Same Supply Chain Constraints That Threaten Ukrainian Drone Industry, Report Says
- Big Contract Winners In Trident II And Nuclear Attack Submarine Modernization
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Thursday, October 2, 2025
- USAF Wants To Solidify Requirements For Sentinel Silos And Launch Centers
- Army Completes Successful IOT&E For PrSM Inc. 1
- South Korean Arms Agency Decides on $2.8 Billion Buy of L3Harris “Phoenix”
- Army Moving Ahead With Future Howitzer Search, Plans Demos With TiC 2.0 Brigades
- Long-Range Precision Weapons Startup Aventra Exits Stealth
- W80-4 Life Extension Component Diamond Stamped At Y-12, NNSA Says
- DoD Awards Alaskan Mining Company $43 Million To Accelerate Antimony Extraction
- Maxar Businesses Rebrand As Vantor And Lanteris
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Wednesday, October 1, 2025
- Hegseth Teases Update In October On Plans For ‘Generational’ Acquisition Reforms
- More Than $12.5 Billion in Contract Modification for F-35s in Lot 18-19
- BAE Eyes Deal In Early ‘26 To Extend AMPV Production, Teams With Forterra For Autonomy Effort
- Wilsbach Nominated for USAF Chief of Staff
- ATLAS Space Domain Awareness System Ready for Use, U.S. Space Force Says
- X-Bow Wins $191 Million Foreign Military Sale For Rocket Motors
- GD and BETA Partner For Classified Undersea Propulsion
- $705 Million Sale of HIMARS to Australia Approved By U.S. State Department
- Lockheed Martin Starts Land-Based Testing Of Japan’s Aegis Ship SPY-7 Radar
- Firehawk Completes Flight Tests Of Javelin And Stinger-Class Rocket Motors