Defense Daily Archive
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Monday, June 16, 2025
- Defense Watch: Coast Guard V-BAT, QUICKSINK, Cyber ROE
- House Appropriators Pass $831.5 Billion FY ‘26 Defense Bill With Measures Protecting UH-60, E-7 Funds
- GD, AWS Demonstrate Integrated AI, Cloud Solution For Aerial Threats
- GAO Says Navy To Merge MUSV and LUSV Programs, Skeptical XLUUV To Become Program Of Record
- CBO: Availability of 7-Year-Old F-35A That of a 36-Year-Old F-16C/D
- Redwire Closes $925 Million Acquisition Of Edge Autonomy, Adding UAS Tech
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Friday, June 13, 2025
- Pentagon Fiscal 2026 Budget to Prioritize USAF F-47 Over Navy F/A-XX
- House Appropriators Want Blueprint, Details For Golden Dome
- House Defense Appropriators Reject Cancellation of USAF E-7
- House Appropriators Back Army’s M-10 Booker Cancellation, Rebuke Other Proposed Cuts
- Planet Nabs NATO Award For Geospatial Intelligence
- USAF Says Wind Tunnel Testing Validated F130 Engine Inlet Redesign, As B-52 CERP Looks to Enter Development This Summer
- Muon Space Adds $90 Million In Funding Round; Acquires Spacecraft Propulsion Startup
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Defense Daily, Thursday, June 12, 2025, Vol. 306, Issue 51
// PDF View- DoD Places Big Bets On Reconciliation Funds For Major Programs In FY ‘26, Lawmakers Offer Caution
- SecNav ‘Simpatico’ With Warren On Right To Repair, Reforming IP Rights
- DoD Looks to End USAF E-7 in Fiscal 2026 Budget Request
- SASC Chairman Lambasts Trump Navy Budget, Says Assumes Reconciliation To Pay For Some Annual Appropriations
- Sierra Space Launches Defense Unit With Plans To Expand Manufacturing
- Will Section 301 of SPEED Act Decrease or Increase DoD Contract Prices?
- Lynn Makes Case To Strengthen Defense Industry’s Middle Tier
- Air Force May Build Microreactor at Eielson AFB, Alaska
- Voyager Goes Public As IPO Raises $383 Million
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Wednesday, June 11, 2025
- SecNav Says Navy Should Consider Competing SSNs
- HASC Leaders Offer Proposal With Sweeping Reforms To Speed Up DoD Acquisition Process
- Hanwha Says U.S. Committee Approves More Ownership Of Shipbuilder Austal
- DoD May Acquire Modification and Repair Rights for Aircraft, Ships, Vehicles, House Defense Appropriators Propose
- House Panel Approves $66.4 Billion DHS Bill For FY ’26 On Party Line Vote
- HAC-D Advances $831.5 Billion Defense Bill After Pressing Hegseth On Lack Of DoD Budget Details
- Kurilla: More Multi-Year Procurement, Co-Production Would Spur Production Capacity Increase for FMS
- New Venture Investments Announced In AI, Chips And Space
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Tuesday, June 10, 2025
- House Defense Appropriators Unveil Flat FY ‘26 Bill, As Congress Still Awaits Budget Request
- House Defense Appropriators Open Door to More Than 9 F-35 Developmental Test Planes, Bar Integration of Alternate Engine
- House Appropriators Recommend Over $3 Billion More For Shipbuilding Industrial Base In 2026
- House Panel Slashes Funding For Coast Guard’s Offshore Patrol Cutter
- No More Than 8 U-2 Retirements Allowed in FY 2026, House Appropriators Say
- As Army Eyes Cuts, HAC-D Backs JLTV, Gray Eagle In FY ‘26 Defense Spending Bill
- Shield AI’s V-BAT Continues Operations In Support Of Ukrainian Forces, Tseng Says
- Zelenskyy Re-Iterates Call for U.S. Air Defense Systems, As DoD Diverts APKWS to Middle East
- Griffin Tapped as New SRNS CEO, Replacing Retiring Carr
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Monday, June 9, 2025
- Defense Watch: Golden Dome Summit Canx, APKWS, Private Ranges
- Trump Directive Wants Review Of Programs That Could Be Replaced By Drones
- GE Eyes Dual-Mode Ramjet Tech As Option To Power Army’s Potential Hypersonic PrSM Inc. 5
- Last Planned Marine Corps MQ-9A Reaper Drone Delivered
- Acting Coast Guard Commandant Wants More Counter-Drone Capacity
- Navy Acquisition Head Says Block Buy Of Fifth and Sixth Ford Carriers Could Save $5 Billion
- AFWERX Agility Prime to Take Hit in FY 2026 Budget
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Friday, June 6, 2025
- Performance Issues Force Coast Guard To Stop Work On Two OPCs; First Ship Likely Delayed
- Independent Review Team on SDA Submits Report to Pentagon
- RTX, Northrop Detail Successful Rocket Motor Tests For Stinger Replacement Offering
- Sentinel Restructuring an Early Focus for Meink
- SASC Presses Army On Plans To Potentially Close Some Weapons Depots
- Driscoll: Army On Track To Field Hypersonic Weapon By End Of FY ‘25, Exploring Cheaper Version
- Navy Official Says Frigate Design Expected This Summer, Confirms Service Still Needs Sixth-Gen Fighter
- Final Coast Guard National Security Cutter Canceled
- SASC Reconciliation Adds $74 Million to House Bill for Nuclear Deterrence
- DoD Awards Six Small Businesses $5 Billion Contract Vehicle In Naval Integrated Weapons Systems Equipment
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Thursday, June 5, 2025
- Senate’s Defense Bill For Reconciliation Adjusts Shipbuilding Funds, Wicker Knocks Budget Plan
- New $1.1 Billion AIM-9X Sidewinder Award Largest In Program, Will Boost Annual Production To 2,500 Missiles, RTX Says
- HASC Presses Army For More Details On Carrying Out New Transformation Plan
- Lockheed Martin Heralds Pick by Sweden for TPY-4 Radar
- Latest Counter-UAS Demo, This Time In Contested Environment, Shows Layered Solution Still Best
- GE Plans Summer Full-Scale Test of DMRJ in Evendale
- Coast Guard’s Commercial Icebreaker Begins Maiden Voyage
- BlackSea Technologies Contributes GARC USV And Support Ship To Operation Southern Spear
- In-Space Mobility Startup Impulse Space Garners $300 Million In New Funding Round
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Defense Daily, Wednesday, June 4, 2025, Vol. 306, Issue 45
// PDF View- GE: Fate Of T901 Engine Depends On FY ‘26 Budget, Proposing Plans To Speed Up Program
- GE, Kratos Expand Work On Low-Cost, Small Engines With GEK1500 Aimed At CCAs
- Ukrainian ‘Spider Web’ Points to Budget Decisions Ahead for USAF on Drone Use, Hardening Bases for Bombers
- SecNav Sees Lessons From Japanese and Korean Yards, Looking Into More Allied Naval Work and U.S. Yards
- Jacobs Wins $4 Billion Space Force Award To Modernize Launch Range Operations
- Ex-Boeing Exec Nordlund To Lead Oshkosh’s Defense Business
- Space Force Awards BAE Systems $1.2 Billion For Epoch 2 Missile Warning And Tracking Satellites
- Lockheed Martin Unveils All Comers ‘Fight Club’ To Test Out AI Models In Virtual Arena
- SecNav: DOGE Cuts Spur Navy To Save $500 Million
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Tuesday, June 3, 2025
- Northrop Grumman Expects Near Quintupling of SRM Build in Elkton by 2027
- U.K. Plans For 12 SSN-AUKUS Future Attack Sub Fleet
- DIU Launches $20 Million Prize Challenge For Ready-To-Go UAS
- SAIC’s Earnings Fall Despite Slight Sales Increase
- York Space Systems Completes Tranche 2 Design Review Ahead Of Plan
- NorthStar Nabs $527 Million Enterprise Carrier Dismantlement Contract
- Voyager Technologies Begins Road Show For Proposed Public Offering
- White House Would Pay Less in NNSA Salaries in 2026 Compared to 2025 Estimate