Defense Daily Archive
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Friday, April 11, 2025
- NAVAIR Head Warns First MQ-25 Flight This Year Still Requires “A Ton Of Work”
- House Narrowly Passes Compromise Reconciliation Blueprint With $150 Billion For Defense
- Trump Issues Executive Order Aimed At Revamping Maritime Policy, Investments In Domestic Shipbuilding
- Executive Order: Commercial Contracts, Other Transactions to Be DoD Default
- Trump Signs Executive Order To Reform FMS Process, Speed Up Arms Sales
- Counter-C5ISR and Long Range Fires Top of Paparo’s List to Deter China
- Maven Adoption Quadruples In Past Year
- Trump Administration Support for Nuclear Triad May Lead to Sentinel Reprieve
- New Space Adviser Charged With Integrating Military Space Enterprise
- Trump Order Targets Sentinel, Other Major Defense Acquisition Programs
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Thursday, April 10, 2025
- SecNav Phelan: Navy Change Is Coming, Considers Warfare Like A Business
- Mission Analysis For Golden Dome Will Lay Foundation For Programs, Budget, Space Chief Says
- Wittman: Navy Must Decide If Frigate Should Be Fixed Or Scrapped
- LRDR to Enter Operational Test This Summer
- U.S. OKs Potential $1 Billion AMRAAM Missile Deal With Australia
- HASC Chair Says ‘Accelerate AUKUS’ To Deter China, North Korea
- Space Force’s International Strategy Promises Tighter Integration With Allies And Partners, Saltzman Says
- HASC Chair Intends To Include ‘Robust Levels’ Of Weapons Aid For Taiwan In Next NDAA
- Space Force Looking to Promote CIC Data Sharing with NRO
- NATO Works to Expand and Direct Multinational Space Capabilities
- U.S. Air Force Receives First TPY-4 for Testing
- Army Secretary Dan Driscoll Tapped To Replace Kash Patel As Acting ATF Director
- Ahead Of Potential Tariff Concerns, Space Force Began Assessing Supply Chain In Wake Of COVID
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Wednesday, April 9, 2025
- Trump, Hegseth Announce Plan For $1 Trillion Defense Budget Request
- Navy May Look To Retire Cruisers Under Budgetary Pressure
- Bollinger Delivers First Three Counter-Mine Unmanned Surface Vehicles To Navy
- U.S. Space Command, SpaceWERX Sponsoring Space Maneuver Challenge
- Space Force Contracts With Astroscale For On-Orbit Refueling Demonstration
- Lozano: Army Looking To AI, Autonomy Capabilities For Contribution to Golden Dome
- EUCOM Chief, HASC Leaders Agree U.S. Should Maintain Troop Levels In Europe
- L3Harris and BAE Systems Pitching Funding Add for Four EA-37Bs By FY 2027
- Brandon Williams, NNSA Head Nominee, Vows To ‘Push Back’ For ‘Specialized’ Workforce
- Blue Origin May Launch Future GPS Missions, As Space Force Says ULA and Blue Origin Have ‘Credible Plans’ for Certification of Rocket Launches From Both Coasts
- USSPACECOM Chief Tout’s Maven’s Role In Space Domain Awareness
- NRO Launching Two More Proliferated Architecture Missions In April
- Millennium Space, L3Harris Complete Critical Design Review For FOO Fighter
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Tuesday, April 8, 2025
- Lockheed Martin Delivers Eighth GPS-III Satellite, Launch In Late May
- DIU Taps Firefly Aerospace For Responsive On-Orbit Mission
- Acting CNO: Need To Be More Sure Of Laser Output Before Going All-In, F/A-XX At Higher Levels
- Anduril Announces New Copperhead UUV, Includes Torpedo-Like Variant
- Nammo, Northrop Grumman Get RTX Contracts As Alternative Sources For Mk 72 Rocket Motors
- Shield AI Producing Upgraded V-BAT With Greater Range, Other Capabilities
- Govini Nabs Spot On $919 Million Supply Chain Risk Awareness Contract For DoD
- LeoLabs Introduces Expeditionary Radar For Space Domain Awareness
- Saildrone to Introduce Fourth Unmanned Variant, Mustin Named Company President
- HII, South Korea’s HD Hyundai Heavy Industries Sign MoU For Accelerating Ship Production
- Oshkosh Nabs $95 Million Army Order For FHTV Trucks, Includes Autonomy-Ready PLS A2s
- Voyager Technologies Added To Air Force $46 Billion Agile Acquisition Contract
- HII Delivers Navy’s First Lionfish UUVs
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Monday, April 7, 2025
- Defense Watch: SecNav Message, Maven Smart System, Drone Incursions, Ukraine Aid
- SpaceX, ULA, Blue Origin Receive NSSL Contracts Worth Up to Nearly $14 Billion
- Lockheed Martin’s New PrSM Inc. 1 Contract Begins With Order For 400 Missiles
- DIU Launches Blue Manufacturing To Vet Key Commercial Tech Suppliers
- Guillot: HBTSS ‘Extremely Promising,’ Kill Vehicles Against Hypersonic Missiles Big Challenge
- Intelsat Wins US Space Force PLEO Task Order for Maritime Connectivity
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Friday, April 4, 2025
- Army Selects 10 Vendors For Potential $4.2 Billion Aerostat Systems Contract
- Wicker Calls for Ten-Fold Increase in Annual DoD Replicator Spending
- Defense Industrial Base Needs Capacity, Surge Ability, Flexibility, And Resilience, Report Says
- DoD IG Opens Investigation On Hegseth’s Use Of Signal App To Discuss Yemen Strikes
- Anduril Unveils New Undersea Sensor Network
- HII’s Kastner Minimizes Metal Tariff Affect To Shipbuilding, Australian Suppliers Helps Fragile Industrial Base
- DARPA Selects 18 Firms For First Stage Of Quantum Benchmarking Initiative
- Hawk vs. Dove: Wicker and Others ‘Reject’ Arguments Against Golden Dome From Kelly and Others
- Leidos Announces Up to Five Year, $390 Million SIGINT Award
- First OA-1K Skyraider Delivered to AFSOC
- Spacecraft Developer Portal Space Raises $17.5 Million In Seed Round
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Thursday, April 3, 2025
- USMC Plans For Anduril’s Small Drone Defeat Capability At Up To 34 Locations, FOC In FY ‘34
- Senate Keeps $150 Billion Defense Topline In Updated Budget Reconciliation Blueprint
- Space Force Conducts First War Game For Commercial Reserve With Satellite Comm Providers
- L3Harris Expects Passive Detection System to Field First on Navy Destroyer in 2027
- Slingshot Aerospace Nabs AFWERX Award To Apply AI Tool For Space Domain Awareness
- HevenDrones Targeting Border Security With Drone Offerings
- Northrop Grumman Awarded In-Space Refueling Contracts
- REPKON USA Acquires GD Metal Parts Business
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Wednesday, April 2, 2025
- Joint Chiefs Chair Nom Caine: DoD Needs ‘Sense Of Urgency’ On Budget, Innovation Reform
- Cramer: Sentinel Design Changes May Be Possible to Fit In Minuteman III Silos
- Limited Resources Limit DIU’s Ability To Clear Commercial Drones For DoD, Industry Official Says
- Navy Nuke Head Says New Tech Easing Sub Production Increase
- DIU Plus UK and Australian Partners Launch Second AUKUS Innovation Challenge
- USAF Awards Boeing Nearly $2.5 Billion C-17 Sustainment Contract
- DoD Strategic Capital Office Receives $9 Billion In Loan Applications
- U.S. OKs Potential $5.6 Billion Deal With Philippines For 20 F-16s
- Energy Secretary Pledges To Build ‘More Than 100’ Pits In Trump Administration
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Tuesday, April 1, 2025
- Next-Gen C2 Contract Awards Expected ‘Imminently’ As Army Looks To Scale Up Effort
- Leidos Successfully Flies Guided Small Cruise Missile
- MDA To Hold Golden Dome Missile Defense Summit In April
- MDA Unveils New Acquisition Vehicle Targeted At New Golden Dome Tech And Sources
- GE Aerospace Awarded Subcontract To Deliver Avionics Systems For Army’s FLRAA
- USAF Sustainment Center Examines Reduction in AWACS Costs
- L3Harris Closes $800 Million Sale Of Commercial Aviation Solutions Business
- Upcoming Personnel Changes May Be Particularly Acute for Relatively Small U.S. Space Force
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Monday, March 31, 2025
- Defense Watch: F-47 Contract, Starshield Vs. SDA Layer, Large SRM, Sentinel
- Army Awards Nearly $5 Billion PrSM Inc. 1 Production Contract To Lockheed Martin
- Nominee For DoD CTO Sees Room For Culture Change; Supports APFIT Program
- Army Confirms AEVEX, Anduril, RTX Selected For Launched Effects Short Range Demo
- Canada Examining Alternatives to F-35A
- Allen Control Systems Nets $30 Million To Speed Deployment Or Robotic Gun Platform
- Meink Favors Multiple Competitions Within Programs, Examining Large ‘Heavy Press’-Type Industrial Investment
- Hegseth Announces Marine Corps NMESIS Anti-Ship Deployment To Philippines