Defense Daily Archive
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Wednesday, August 26, 2020
- ABMS Test to Be “Massive,” Roper Says, Name Change Possible
- Spain Awards $870 Million Combat Vehicle Deal To General Dynamics Joint Venture
- Outgoing Incumbent To Keep A Little Work At DOE Nuke Weapons Site
- Army Selects Group Of Companies To Work On Air Launched Effects For Future Helicopters
- TSA Lining Up Next Round Of Checkpoint CT Acquisition
- Coast Guard’s Healy Polar Icebreaker Aborts Mission Due To Fire
- Air Force Leaders Witness Manned Electric Flight Demonstration By LIFT Aircraft’s HEXA
- LCS-21 Finishes Acceptance Trials, Delivery Next In 2021
- Integrating Data Across Classification Levels A Challenge For AI
- Trump To Nominate Wolf As DHS Secretary
- Bill Gates Leads Kymeta’s $85M Funding Round
- Outgoing Incumbent To Keep A Little Work At DOE Nuke Weapons Site
- Bath Strike Ends With New Contract, Workers Return
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Tuesday, August 25, 2020
- Army’s Long-Range Fires Leader Details ERCA Autoloader, PrSM’s Multi-Mode Seeker Opportunities
- Report Advises Ramp Up Of Space Traffic Management Efforts
- CBP Releases RFP For Multi-Energy Portal System
- U.S. Air Force Awards BAE Systems $495 Million Range Support Contract
- CISA Releases 5G Strategy
- Rolls-Royce Makes Further Investment In Reaction Engines
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Monday, , August 24, 2020
- Defense Watch: NGI, Drone Detection, Industry Appointments
- U.S. Space Force Prepares To Receive Army, Navy Space Programs
- Lord Details Pentagon’s Temporary Waiver From Huawei, ZTE Equipment Ban
- Near Earth Autonomy And NAVAIR To Develop Autonomy Package For K-MAX
- FAA Awards Grants To Universities For Drone Integration In Airspace
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Friday, August 21, 2020
- Five U.S.-Made sUAS Cleared by DIU for Government Use
- Lord Doesn’t Expect F-35 Full-Rate Production Decision To Slip Beyond March 2021, Despite JSE Test Delay
- Heron Systems Wins Crown in DARPA AlphaDogfight Trials
- Northrop Grumman’s IBCS Successful Again In Second Limited User Test Demonstration
- GAO Finds Years Of Maintenance Delays For Carriers, Subs At Navy Shipyards
- General Atomics To Supply MQ-9 UAS To Belgium
- Radiation-Detecting Helo to Sweep Charlottee Ahead of GOP Convention
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Thursday, August 20, 2020
- Northrop Grumman Demonstrates Firebird In Unmanned Operations
- MDA Director: Boost Phase Intercept Hard And Likely Only For Retaliation, If Possible
- ULA Prepares Delta IV Heavy Rocket for Launch with NRO Payload on Aug. 26
- KBR To Acquire Centauri, Adding Space Business For Military And Intelligence Customers
- Long Road Ahead for FAA, Airports and Drone Security
- GBSD Won’t Have Hypersonic Variant, But It Possibly Could One Day, Air Force General Says
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Wednesday, August 19, 2020
- U.S. State Department OIG Report Finds Fault, But No Law Breaking, in Arms Sales to Saudi Arabia and UAE
- Navy Information Warfare Project Gets $400 Million Extension
- Hungary Signs $2.4 Billion Deal With Rheinmetall To Become First Customer For Lynx IFV
- Antenna Company Kymeta Acquires Service Provider Lepton Global to Target Defense Customers
- New CRS Report Lays Out Hypersonic Missile Defense Issues for Congress
- Downsized At-Sea RIMPAC 2020 Starts Amid Pandemic
- Dems 2020 Platform Doesn’t Directly Endorse No First-Use of Nukes
- Advisory Panel Recommends DHS Create Task Force To Prevent Threats From Gene Editing
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Tuesday, August 18, 2020
- Artificial Intelligence-Enabled F-16 Simulators to Conduct Final AlphaDogfight Trials Against Pilots This Week
- Federal Agencies Outline Legal Issues For Counter UAS Operations
- Democratic Platform Includes Considering Reduced Defense Spending, Continued Investments In New Tech
- Pentagon Beginning Work On Initial CMMC Pathfinders, Lord Says
- Air Force Research Laboratory Investigating Quantum Technologies for Enhanced Sensing and Positioning Accuracy
- GD Electric Boat Wins $125 Million Contract To Start SSN-768 Overhaul
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Monday, August 17, 2020
- Defense Watch: B-21 Avionics, Fewer COVID-19 Cases at Nuke Sites, SAIC CFO Retires
- Lockheed Martin, MBDA Deutschland Submit Updated, Final Proposal For Germany’s Future Air Defense System
- DoE Nuke Lab Fingers ‘New Type of Glove’ in June Radiation Leak
- Latest DHS Cyber Exercise Shows Gains But Organizations Face Potential External Weaknesses
- BAE Wins DDG Preble Maintenance Contract
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Friday, August 14, 2020
- Navy Reassessing CVN-79 Schedule Due To Pandemic And Phase Change
- Congressional Cyber Leaders Introduce Bill To Modernize State And Local IT Systems
- Army Successful In ‘Most Complex’ Test Yet For Future Missile Defense Command System
- CACI Rounds Out Fiscal Year With Strong Fourth Quarter
- With AVT Deal, CACI Builds On Growing Technology Capabilities
- Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office Moves to Reduce COVID-19 Supply Chain Impact
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Thursday, August 13, 2020
- Boeing Delivers NGI Proposal To MDA
- CACI Acquires Drone Security, ISR Technology Company Ascent Vision Technologies
- NASA Plans Award To Moog For Drone Security System At Kennedy Space Center
- DARPA Awards Northrop Grumman for AI Work Under Gamebreaker Program
- Geurts Says Temporary COVID Shipyard Closure Still Possible
- Lockheed Martin Invests In AI Company Fiddler Labs
- BAE Nabs $83.5 Million Contract To Modernize Two Destroyers
- Harris’ Recent NDAA Votes May Shed Light On Democratic Ticket’s Defense Policy Priorities
- Hyten Details Outlook For Major Missile Defense, Nuclear Weapons Modernization Programs
- U.S. Air Force Planning to Integrate Project Maven Into ABMS Exercise Next Month