Defense Daily Archive
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Wednesday, July 14, 2021
- Three-Year Sustainment Contract for F-35 to Include Incentives to Improve Full Mission Capable Rates
- House Appropriations Approves $706 Billion Defense Bill As Republicans Take Aim At Topline During Markup
- DoE Nuke Agency Finishes First Copy of Refurbed Submarine Warhead; Deliveries Sked’d for 2022
- Biden Taps SAIC Exec For Army Under Secretary, Jeff Flake For Turkey Ambassador
- DHS Spending Bill Approved By House Appropriators
- MDA Deploys Nanosats To Test Technology For HBTSS
- House Defense Appropriators Advise $900 Million Aircraft Procurement Boost for Air Force
- SAIC Creates Strategic Advisory Board That Includes Former Top DoD Officials
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Tuesday, July 13, 2021
- House Defense Panel Aims For Greater Oversight On GBSD Cost Control Measures
- House Appropriators Criticize Navy For Destroyer, LCS Decommissioning Plan
- DOE Nuke Agency Would Get Requested Weapons Funding in Draft House Budget Bill; GOP Says ‘Short Changes’
- House Appropriators Look To Boost R&D Funds For Army’s CFTs, Propose Another IVAS Cut
- House Panel Boosts Funding For CISA Program To Detect Threats On Private Networks
- Senate Confirms Easterly To Lead CISA
- Booz Allen Invests In AI Tech Startup
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Monday, July 12, 2021
- Defense Watch: B-21 Rendering; Missile Defense; US Aircraft to Afghans
- More Than 80 Companies Competing in U.S. Air Force JADC2 Effort
- US Response To Russian-Based Ransomware Attacks Forthcoming, Administration Official Says
- Army Taps 10 Firms For Small Business Cohort To Work On RCV Sustainment Ideas
- GovCIO To Acquire Salient CRGT Creating $700 Million Federal IT Company
- Navy Seeks Market Research On LAW Simulator
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Friday, July 9, 2021
- “Force Elements” Key to Future U.S. Air Force Posture
- SASC Announces FY ’22 NDAA Markup Schedule
- Army Awards BAE Systems $600 Million Deal For AMPV Sustainment Work
- Norway And Germany Jointly Buying Submarines And Naval Strike Missiles
- UK MoD Awards Boeing P-8 Support And Training Contract
- Chumash Capital Acquires Small Defense Contractor Capco
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Thursday, July 8, 2021
- GAO: U.S. Air Force Needs to Reduce F-35 Costs Per Tail by $3.7 Million By 2036
- U.S. Air Force Awards Northrop Grumman Contract for Up to $3.9 Billion for ICBM Ground Subsystems
- UK Boosting Destroyer Missiles With $690 Million In Upgrades
- AeroVironment Unveils New Ground Control System For Its Unmanned Assets
- AAR Corp. Settles False Claims Act Investigation by DOJ for $11 Million
- Parsons, SAIC Complete Acquisitions
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Wednesday, July 7, 2021
- Pentagon Cancels JEDI Cloud Deal With Microsoft, Pursues New Multi-Vendor Effort
- HII Says Alion Deal Scales Solutions Business In Key Areas, Aids Future Navy Needs
- Raytheon Receives $172 Million Order For Initial Mid-Band Jammer Lot
- DIU Approves Three Firms’ Secure Cloud Management Tools, Picking Long-Term Solution Soon
- BlueHalo To Acquire Space Systems Provider DDES
- Peters, Johnson Introduce Supply Chain Security Bill
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Tuesday, July 6, 2021
- Defense Watch: Rumsfeld Passes; Stealth Drone Plan; Hold on Kendall
- New Bipartisan Bill Would Cut Budgets Of Pentagon Agencies That Fail An Audit
- Air Combat Command Targeting October for Completion of Campaign Plan
- Navy Official Says Budget Worries Led To Destroyer Cut
- House Democrats Re-Introduce DHS Reform Bill
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Friday, July 2, 2021
- U.S. Air Force Awards Raytheon $2 Billion EMD Contract for LRSO
- U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff Presses Staff to Analyze Needed Capabilities, Not Numbers
- Lockheed Martin Nabs $1.8 Billion Award For More F-35 Logistics Support
- US, UK Expose Ongoing Russian Global Cyber Campaign
- Skyborg Program Conducts Another Test of Autonomy System on Different Drone
- UK Nuclear Complex Management Renationalized
- State Department Okays $445 Million Sale Of Heavy Tactical Vehicles To Kuwait
- Northrop Grumman Delivers Spacecraft Bus to L3Harris for NTS-3 Air Force Vanguard Program
- Oshkosh Receives $152 Million JLTV Order, Has ‘No Plans To Stop Building’ The Vehicle
- SAIC Continues Counter-Drone Support For DoD With Air Force Contract
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Thursday, July 1, 2021
- Switzerland to Buy 36 F-35As for $5.5 Billion
- HAC-D Advances $706 Billion FY ‘22 Defense Spending Bill
- New Navy Mid-Band Jammer Gets Production Approval
- Garamendi Introduces Bill To Pause GBSD Development Until 2031
- Germany Signs Deal To Buy Five P-8A Poseidon Aircraft
- Space Development Agency Launches First Two Satellite Missions
- Kubasik Will Expand L3Harris’ International Partnerships
- House Defense Appropriators Advise Restart of Air Force MQ-9 Buy, Add Six Reapers
- House Appropriations Subcommittee Approves $52.8 Billion DHS Funding Bill
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Wednesday, June 30, 2021
- House Appropriators’ $706 Billion Defense Bill Boosts Procurement By $1.7 Billion, Cuts Sea-Launched Cruise Missile
- Rein in Nuke Spending ‘Til January, Keep GBSD, Avoid ‘Big Leap’ on LRSO, Armed Service Chair Says
- U.S. Space Force: Automated Flight Safety System to Allow More Rapid Launches
- Draft House Spending Bill Adds Second Destroyer, Bars Cutting 3 LCSs
- House Appropriators Restore Funding For CH-47F Block II Procurement In FY ‘22 Defense Bill
- House Spending Bill Gives Slight Boost To DHS, Adds To Coast Guard, CISA
- DOE Approves Cost Range for S.C. Nuke Core Factory: $6.9B-$11.1B
- DHS Adds Boston, New Orleans To Radiological And Nuclear Detection Program