Defense Daily Archive
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Monday, July 6, 2026
- Defense Watch: E-7 Challenges, T-AGS(X) RFI, Ukraine Biz News, Saronic Testing,
- Coast Guard Finalizes $3.3 Billion In Arctic Security Cutter Contracts With Bollinger And Rauma
- Drone Challenge Program Selects 19 Vendors To Compete In Second Gauntlet
- Navy Re-Issues RFI For Longer Anti-Radiation Missile
- USAF Point Defense Battle Lab Wants Performance Data On C-sUAS
- AM General Details JLTV A2 Ramp Up To Full-Rate Production, 12-Month Shift In Fielding To Early ‘27
- Ukraine And European Union Discussing Drone Deal, As Kamikaze Drones Hit Russian Supply Lines
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Thursday, July 2, 2026
- Hegseth Establishes New Czar To Oversee Pentagon’s Unmanned Systems Work
- SDA, RCO Missions Staying Within Portfolio Acquisition Executives, Space Force Official Says
- Army Awards $3 Billion Deal To Lockheed For Sentinel A4 Radar Production
- Auriga Space Introduces Hypersonic Materials Testing; Notches First Customer
- Private Equity Firm Arcline Investment To Acquire Avantus Aerospace Group
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Wednesday, July 1, 2026
- Duffey: F-47 “At the Cutting Edge of Technology” and Government, Industry Collaboration
- House Heads For Recess Without Moving On NDAA After Procedural Vote Fails
- Army Rapidly Boosting UAS Component Production At Tobyhanna As It Moves Beyond SkyFoundry
- Bipartisan Group Of House Members Introduce U.S.-Ukrainian Co-Production Bill For Unmanned Systems
- Pentagon Office Of Strategic Capital Expanding, Focusing On Loans Between $1 Billion And $5 Billion
- UK Replaces Plans For Future Destroyer With Drone Controller Ships
- Canada’s Dominion Dynamics Raises $100 Million To Scale C2 System, Collaborative Drone
- Space Force Command Operationally Accepts Satellite Jammer
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Tuesday, June 30, 2026
- Rocket Lab’s End-to-End Vision Comes Into Focus With ‘Transformative’ Iridium Deal
- Projected NGAL Wingspan And Carriage Fall Within Those Of C-5 And C-17
- Overland Nabs $20 Million Award To Produce Autonomous Resupply Vehicles
- Will $4 Billion For SB-AMTI/Space Data Network Backbone In Supplemental Reduce Or Add To Planned Funding For Systems In Reconciliation?
- Honeywell Aerospace Begins Trading On Nasdaq
- RTX Nabs $1.1 Billion Mod For Nearly 2,000 Sidewinder Missiles
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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 Prepares to Validate 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
