Defense Daily Archive
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Monday, July 20, 2026
- Defense Watch: MQ-25, HASC Repubs, PA DIB, Green Wolf
- Hanwha Philly And TOTE Picked To Build MDA Missile Range Instrumentation Vessels
- Official: Army Could Make Common Autonomous Multi-Domain Launcher Awards In August
- GD NASSCO To Build Two New Sub Tenders
- 21 More York Space Systems Satellites Launched for SDA Tranche 1
- DIU Selects Six Vendors To Demonstrate Containerized Drone Launch And Recovery
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Friday, July 17, 2026
- Army Plans To Start NGSRI Production In FY ‘28, Aims To Build 11,000 Missiles
- Schiess Counts Moving Target Indication Among His Top Priorities
- Neros’ $500 Million Army Deal Could Cover ‘Hundreds Of Thousands’ Of Archer FPV Drones
- Saronic Picks Brownsville, Texas, For Port Alpha, Promises Largest Shipyard In U.S.
- USAF F-16 VENOM Aircraft To Enter DARPA’s Artificial Intelligence Reinforcements Program
- Navy Exploring More Carrier-Based Unmanned Aircraft In Air Wing of the Future
- Air Force May More Than Triple JASSM/LRASM Buy Over FYDP
- State Department Okays $2.5 Billion In FMS, Including Large APKWS Deal For Saudi Arabia
- Lockheed Martin Carves Out $100 Million For Venture Fund In UK, Europe
- Pentagon’s Strategic Capital Office To Support Credit Funds Investing In Critical Minerals Companies
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Thursday, July 16, 2026
- At Least 15 F-35s “DD-250’ed” Since May 2025
- House Republicans’ Blueprint For Reconciliation 3.0 Includes $60 Billion For Defense
- Anduril, CoAspire, Zone 5 Ink Multiyear Frameworks For Low-Cost Cruise Missile Production
- SDA Set To Resume Launches Thursday With Second Plane Of York Transport Layer Satellites
- YFQ-44A Fired AMRAAM In Recent Test In Mojave Desert
- RTX Details Successful Demos With NGSRI Offering For Stinger Replacement Competition
- Northrop Grumman Planning To Add Hundreds Of Jobs For Sentinel
- Ursa Major Nabs $10 Million SRM Contract For Standard Missile Rocket Motors
- DIU Wants Solutions To Beam Power Through, And From, Space
- Auriga Space Adapting Electromagnetic Launch Tech For Counter-Drone Interception
- DIU Picks Kongsberg Team For CAMP XLUUV
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Wednesday, July 15, 2026
- Army Negotiating With AV On Enduring-High Energy Laser Contract, Lozano Says
- DoD Awards $548 Million In APFIT Funds, Including First Software Investments
- Senate Dems Block Consideration Of FY ‘27 NDAA Over Iran War Concerns
- Concerns Raised At SASC Hearing On Unobligated Reconciliation Funds And Lack Of Updates On Iran War Cost
- European Companies To Jointly Develop New Missile Defense Interceptor
- BAE Systems To Furnish EPAWSS For F-15K Fighters
- Navy Releases Draft Notice For Naval Modular Missile Interceptor
- Singularity, Startup Developing Low-Cost Air Defense Systems, Exits Stealth With $80 Million Round
- Vatn Rapidly Develops Autonomous UUV For Mine Countermeasures
- Interview with Lt. Col. Adam Scher, Strategic Communications Advisor for the Joint Interagency Task Force-401
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Tuesday, July 14, 2026
- L3Harris And Sierra Space Receive $1.75 Billion For SDA Tranche 3, Tracking Layer
- TOTE Wins $2.2 Billion Navy LSM Management Contract
- CENTCOM Uses Saronic USVs For One-Way Strikes In Latest Attacks On Iran
- Pentagon Suspends CMMC Phase II Plans, Cites Concerns With Compliance ‘Burdens’
- LITENING Large Aperture Pod, In USAF Operational Testing, May Aid C-UAS, Northrop Grumman Official Says
- DoD Awards CACI $100 Million To Supply Counter-UAS To Defend Southern Border
- Pentagon Invests $25 Million With ReElement To Process Recycled Magnets
- Media Gaggle With Sgt. Maj. Kellen Rowley, Senior Enlisted Advisor to the Joint Interagency Task Force-401 Director
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Monday, July 13, 2026
- Defense Watch: B-21 Crew, T-7 Delay, IBCS Test, Counter-Drone Guide, UGV Raise
- Army Picks Companies For New Autonomous Logistics, Breaching Prototyping Efforts
- Air Force Moving Forward On DVES For HH-60W, As House Appropriators Recommend $180 Million Add for More Helos
- Navy, Marine Corps Experimenting With Large Scale Advanced Manufacturing Network During RIMPAC
- GAO Denies Crowley Protest To Landing Ship Medium VCM RFP
- Media Gaggle With Lt. Col. Alex Morse, Capability Manager for Mobile Solutions at Joint Interagency Task Force-401
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Friday, July 10, 2026
- Army Launches Low-Cost Interceptor Competition, With Demos Planned For This Fall
- Pentagon Taps Lockheed, nLight For New Effort To Rapidly Field High-Energy Laser Weapons
- SOCOM to Buy Leidos AGM-190A for Small Cruise Missile Program
- Development Of Autonomous Targeting For Bumblebee Drone Progressing But Work To Do
- DIU And Air Force Collaborating On MQ-9A Follow-On
- CBO Says Upfront Costs To Protect Military Installations From Drones Between $1 Million And $74 Million
- DIU And Navy Team Up For Modular Payload Prize Challenge
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Thursday, July 9, 2026
- Space Force NSSL Phase 3, Lane 1 Field Now At Seven With Two New Companies Added
- Trump Says U.S. Will Grant Ukraine License To Build Patriot Interceptors
- Navy Previews Second MUSV Variant
- York Space And All.Space CEOs Detail Resilient Communications Vision As Acquisition Closes
- NATO To Buy Up To 10 Saab GlobalEye Aircraft To Help Replace Alliance’s AWACS Fleet
- UK Plans To Join U.S. Army’s PrSM Program, Will Invest $254 Million
- Raytheon Working With European Firms To Build Stingers In Netherlands, Double Production Capacity
- Raytheon Qualifying More European Suppliers for AMRAAM, Company Says
- Venus Aerospace Raises $91 Million To Get New Rocket Engine Ready And Begin Scaling
- HII Adds Halimar To Romulus USV Production Network
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Wednesday, July 8, 2026
- Trump Will ‘Consider’ Turkey Rejoining F-35 Program, Says U.S. Will Lift Sanctions
- Lockheed, Rheinmetall Sign Agreement To Work On ATACMS Co-Production In Germany
- Zelenskyy: Ukrainian Drones Responsible For Most Russian Deaths And Destroyed Equipment
- Aurelius, Rheinmetall Partner On Ground Robot-Based Laser Drone Defense
- GAO Shows More Orca XLUUV Delays, Points To Better Choices For DIU CAMP XLUUV
- HII Nabs Contract To Extend Lionfish Small UUV Production
- BAE Gets $16 Million DoD Investment To Expand U.S. Rad Hardened Chips
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Tuesday, July 7, 2026
- USAF Solicits Rapid Prototyping Of Supersonic, Ground Launched Counter Air Missile
- GAO: Nuclear Modernization Programs Show Mixed Progress
- Lockheed Martin To Acquire ASW Technology Developer Ultra Maritime For $3.5 Billion
- Congressional Marks So Far Contain Full Funding For DARC, Despite Program Struggles
- AV’s New C-UAS Deal Begins With $80 Million Titan Order To Air Force Global Strike Command
- Ondas Acquires DZYNE, Adding Long Range UAS, More C-UAS, And Launched Effects
- AARGM-ER Delays Push IOC To September 2026, GAO Says
- BWXT Completes Precision Components Group Acquisition