Defense Daily Archive
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Monday, April 5, 2021
- Defense Watch: Cyber EOs, Supply Chain Meeting, Project Convergence
- Biden Nominates DIU Director Michael Brown To Serve As Pentagon’s Top Acquisition Official
- TSA Awards Raytheon Technologies $319 Million Support Contract
- Space Warfighting Analysis Center to Examine Shortfalls in Space Domain Awareness
- Sikorsky Conducts Autonomous Test Flight Of Black Hawk Under Pilot Supervision
- Lockheed Martin Wins $610 Million Contract For Phase II Of Saudi Arabia THAAD Sale
- LHA-7 Finishes FOA, Sea Trials Next
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Friday, April 2, 2021
- CBO Projects Army’s Combat Vehicle Acquisition Costs To Total $5 Billion Annually Through 2050
- Space Rules of the Road Agreement Urged for DoD and Intel Agencies
- Elbit Acquires BAE’s Rokar GPS Solutions Business
- J.F. Lehman Invests In Gimbaled Camera System Developer Trillium Engineering
- Anduril Acquires UAS Developer Area-I
- Boeing Wins $1.6 Billion Mod For 11 More P-8A Posiedons
- Air Force Completes First Military Transport of eVTOL Aircraft Inside C-130
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Thursday, April 1, 2021
- DHS Set To Launch Cyber Sprints; Mayorkas Outlines Cyber Priorities
- Air Force Continues KC-46 Flights While Finishing Final Deficiency Fixes
- Army’s Plan For FLRAA Competitive Demo Phase II Will Allow For Earlier Milestone B Decision
- Tester Says He Will Keep GBSD ‘On Track;’ Ex-Obama Official Says GBSD ‘Vulnerable’
- DroneHunter Able to Integrate with FAAD C2 as C-sUAS Solution, Company Says
- Biden Unveils US Plan To Invest Billions In R&D, Manufacturing; Raise Corporate Tax Rate
- Cubic Accepts Revised Private Equity Offer Despite Higher Bid From ST Engineering
- Microsoft Receives Army Deal Worth Up To $21.9 Billion To Move IVAS Into Production
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Wednesday, March 31, 2021
- Bell, Sikorsky-Boeing Each Receive Nearly $300 Million To Continue FLRAA Competitive Demo Work
- Tyndall AFB to Receive Three, New Squadrons of F-35As Starting in September 2023
- DHS Hopes To Issue RFP For Next-Generation Biodetection System In FY ’22
- U.S. Air Force Considering Replacement for EO/IR Sensor on MQ-9 Reaper
- Air Force to Test Freedom Radio, Freedom Pod on U-2, Ghost Reaper
- NIST Releases Draft Cybersecurity Framework For Election Infrastructure
- Navy’s Super Hornet Successor Likely Manned But Aims Future Airwings To Be Over 50 Percent Unmanned
- DHS, Israel Issue Call For Collaborative Homeland Security Projects
- Lockheed Martin Receives $1.1 Billion GMLRS Order, Conducts Second Successful Test Of Extended Range Version
- Communications Fog Led to KCNSC Accepting Faulty Weapon Parts, DoE IG Says
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Tuesday, March 30, 2021
- Air Force Researching Prototype Display for B-52 Advanced Targeting Pods
- Army To Begin Going After New Navigation Warfare Situational Awareness Capabilities
- GD Demos TRX Robotic Vehicle For The Army, Will Participate In 2022’s RCV Phase 2 Experiment
- U.S. Space Force Authorizes Loan of GPS M-Code Receiver Cards for U.S. Allies
- Zumwalt Destroyer To Control Unmanned Forces In April Exercise
- Air Force Returns to 76 Congressionally Mandated B-52s After Restoration of Boneyard Bomber
- Navy Seeks Info From Industry To Integrate Hypersonic Weapons On Zumwalt-Class Destroyers
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Defense Daily, Monday, March 29, 2021, Vol. 289, Issue 57
// PDF View- Defense Watch: Beyond Red Hawk, Colosseum Approach, Tomahawk Block V
- Digital Engineering Efforts for Munitions Yield Lessons Learned for Possible Fielding
- Markey, Khanna Introduce Bill To Stop GBSD Development, Redirect Funds To Fighting Diseases
- After COVID Setback, DHS S&T Begins Air Domain Awareness Effort
- CBO: Navy Shipyards Experiencing Significant Delays In Completing Sub Maintenance
- SAIC Posts Solid Results In Fourth Quarter Helped By Acquisition Of Unisys Federal
- OneWeb Partners With TrustComm as US Military Distribution Partner
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Friday, March 26, 2021
- Army Can Show Results On Modernization With Two Or Three Years Of ‘Good, Solid Budgets,’ McConville Says
- Recent Cyber Attacks Highlighted ‘Inability To See Everything,’ Cyber Command Chief Says
- L3Harris Looks for Viper Shield Flight Testing and Production Contract Award Next Year
- Space Company Redwire Going Public Through SPAC; Sees $1.4 Billion Sales In 2025
- Senate Confirms Turk to be DoE DepSec, 98-2
- Biden Admin Looks at Ex-Sandia Director for Top NNSA Post
- Galinis: Navy Looks To Recapitalize Public Shipyards Faster
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Thursday, March 25, 2021
- Leonardo Postpones Public Offering For U.S. Business DRS
- SASC’s Vote On Nominee For Pentagon’s Top Policy Job Results In A Tie
- Navy Begins Program To Upgrade EA-18G Growlers
- Collins Aerospace Looks to Leverage DoD Recognition of Company’s F-16 and C-130 Brake/Wheel Sustainment
- Blinken Says Effective Nuclear Deterrence, Military Readiness Part Of Improving Alliances
- Cyber, Nukes, OCO are Big Boogeymen in Defense Budget, HAC-D Chair Says
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Wednesday, March 24, 2021
- MDA Chooses Lockheed Martin And Northrop Grumman For NGI Over Incumbent Boeing
- New Army Paper Details Capability Requirements To Enable Multi-Domain Forces By 2035
- US Spending $15 Billion On Hypersonic Weapons Over 10 Years, GAO Says
- Private Equity Firm Agilitas Acquires TenCate Advanced Armour
- Toshiba Invests In Counter-Drone Company Fortem; Form Strategic Alliance
- Omnispace and Lockheed Martin to Pursue Space-Based 5G
- Joint Artificial Intelligence Center’s Common Development Platform Reaches IOC
- Aquilino Says Nine Of 11 Ford Elevators Finished
- Foreign Actors Trying To Compromise U.S. Workers, ODNI Warns; Issues Guidance To Counter Insider Threats
- INDOPACOM Nominee Does Not Specifically Defend F-35, But Says Fifth and Sixth Generation Planes Needed
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Tuesday, March 23, 2021
- Rogers Won’t Support Defense Budget Without Increased Topline, Predicts HASC Will Block Nuke Modernization Cuts
- Smith Outlines DoD Technology Procurement Issues
- Cut Other Programs for Nukes, Not Nukes for Other Programs, ICBM-State Senator Says
- L3Harris Sees Foreign Military Sales Potential for F-16 EW Suite
- Singapore’s ST Engineering Attempting To Outbid Veritas, Evergreen For Cubic
- Curtailing U.S. Air Force F-35A Buy, Increasing Procurement Rate Among Debated Items
- AMETEK To Acquire Embedded Computing Systems Developer Abaco Systems
- GD Nabs $2.4 Billion Contract To Build Second FY ’21 Virginia-Class Submarine