Defense Daily Archive
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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
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Wednesday, August 12, 2020
- Roper: ‘Digital Engineering the Successor to Stealth,’ as Air Force Acquisition Office Completes NGAD Acquisition Plan
- Army Network CFT Details Objectives For This Fall’s Project Convergence Demonstration
- House Republicans Introduce Bill To Help Protect COVID-19 Research From Cyber Espionage
- Air Force Determining Cut Off Date for LSA Funding for Northrop Grumman and Blue Origin
- Pentagon Requests To Push JEDI Cloud Re-Award Decision To Mid-September
- State Department and DoD Move to Expand Bans on Huawei and ZTE, as CNAS Proposes Open Interfaces Approach
- Navy Tests Next Generation Jammer On Growler
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Tuesday, August 11, 2020
- GD, Bath Iron Works Union Reach Tentative Deal To End Strike
- LRDR Fielding Delayed A Year Due To COVID-19
- Kennedy Space Center Seeks UAS Detection Services
- Pentagon To Open Up 100 MHz Of Mid-Band Spectrum For Commercial 5G Use
- B-52 Conducts Third and Final Captive-Carry Flight Test of ARRW, Booster Test Next
- New Mexico Nuke-Lab Building Reopens After COVID-19 Case
- Navy Commissions LCS-19
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Monday, August 10, 2020
- Defense Watch: Election Interference, OPC Delay, Space Force Promotion, Network Industry Day
- In Response to House Cost Concerns with NSSL, Acquisition Office Says Launch Represents Just 13 Percent of Total R&D and Procurement Budgets
- Perspecta Lawsuit Over Leidos NGEN Win Delays Contract To 2021, Expects Extension To Legacy Contract
- Army Now Holding Limited User Test For IBCS
- DHS S&T Readying Support To CBP, FPS For Counter UAS Evaluations
- ‘Some People’ in DoE Want to Shield NNSA Budget Negotiations From Pentagon, Inhofe Says
- Army To Review $62 Billion In Estimated Costs For OMFV, MPF Following GAO Report
- Helm Change at Outgoing Prime Contractor for DoE Nuke Site
- After Closing Military GPS Deal, BAE Looks To Leverage Production Know-How From New Unit
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Friday, August 7, 2020
- Army Wrapping Up First Robotic Combat Vehicle Experiment, Working With Marines On Light Variant
- Official Lays Out 2021 Hypersonic Weapon Glide Body Test Schedule, Industrial Transition
- DoE Opening, Closing Buildings at Nuke Engineering Lab After COVID-19 Cases
- Multiple Reentry Vehicle Tests of Minuteman III Uncommon
- Delivery of 18 to 24 F-35s Likely Delayed Due to COVID-19, Lockheed Martin Says
- Huntington Ingalls Hits Rough Seas In Second Quarter
- Will the Next Presidential Fleet Travel Faster than an SR-71?
- Missile Defense Of Hawaii Test Readying, To Occur By End Of The Year