Defense Daily Archive
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Friday, June 26, 2020
- Senate Panel Fences Off Half Of Layered Missile Defense Funds Until Report Submitted
- Boeing Outlines Fixes for Remote Vision System for KC-46A Tanker
- House, Senate NDAA Marks Largely Concur to Prevent Most Proposed Air Force Aircraft Retirements
- GAO Asks If Cost-Savings Methods at Pantex/Y-12 Could Work at Other Nuke Sites
- HASC NDAA Sets Up Debate With Senate On F-35 Cuts, Funds For Virginia-Class Submarine
- House Cyber Leaders Introduce Bipartisan Bill To Establish National Cyber Director
- Army Holding Limited User Test For IBCS In July
- Drug Seizures Up, Human Smuggling Down On Border As Criminal Organizations Shift Tactics, CBP Chief Says
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Thursday, June 25, 2020
- Senate Authorizers Push For Interim GBI
- DHS Set To Request Bids For Next Biometric System Procurement
- SASC Wants SDA Transferred to the Space Force by 2023, Adds R&D Funds for Future Launches
- Industry Team on Missile Warning Satellite Payload On Track for CDR Next May, Northrop Grumman Says
- SASC Looks To Transition Electromagnetic Spectrum Operations Oversight To Joint Chiefs
- SASC Calls For Army To Assess Its Integrated Air And Missile Defense Capabilities
- F-35 Deliveries Temporarily Paused to Inspect Damage to Lightning Protection System
- Maxar To Acquire Full Stake In Satellite 3D Imagery Company Vricon
- DoD Would Get More Say in DoE Nuke Budget, Under Senate Committee’s NDAA
- Relativity Space Plans West Coast Launch Site, Signs Contract to Send Iridium NEXT Satellites Into Space
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Wednesday, June 24, 2020
- HASC Seapower Would Restrict OSD Funds Until Shipbuilding Plan Is Submitted
- Griffin, Porter Stepping Down As Pentagon’s Top Technology Officials
- Air Force Begins SATCOM Upgrades for Presidential Aircraft Fleet
- HASC Subcommittee Seeks More Answers on F-35 Program in FY ’21 NDAA Mark
- DoD Directs $187 Million DPA Funds For Shipbuilding and Aviation COVID-19 Actions
- U.S., Poland Finalizing New Defense Cooperation Agreement
- House Panel Seeks Details On Army’s Plans For FVL Sensors, Scaling IVAS
- DoE Nuke Agency Kicking Out Prime Contractor of Two Major Weapons Production Sites
- House Authorizers Look To Slow LUSVs And Retiring Ships
- Pekoske Updates Guidance For TSA Strategy; Agency Seeks ‘Near Contactless’ Checkpoint
- Redwire Acquires Provider Of In-Space Manufacturing Technologies
- General Atomics Sees Expansion of Gray Eagle-Extended Range Role in Army Future Vertical Lift Program
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Tuesday, June 23, 2020
- Navy Awards Electric Boat $869 Million Columbia Mod And $9.5 Billion Options For First Two Subs
- House Panel Seeks Deputy SecDef Oversight, Board Of Directors For Joint Artificial Intelligence Center
- House Panel’s NDAA Mark Calls On Pentagon To Establish Directed Energy Working Group
- HASC STRATCOM Mark Pushes for More Commercial Space Domain Awareness Tech
- Report on Nuke Industrial Base is Part of House NDAA
- House Armed Services Panel’s Cyber Recommendations Mirror SASC In Part
- HASC STRATCOM Mark Directs Missile Defense Oversight, Hypersonic Initiatives
- DoE Nuke Agency Confirms Seven More COVID-19 Cases; HQ to Expand Operations
- AE Industrial Partners Acquires Data Analytics, AI Company NuWave; Peraton Execs To Lead Company
- Bath Iron Works Union Goes On Strike
- House Panel Seeks Info From Army On Plans For Stryker 30mm Weapon Program
- ‘Sooner Is Better’ For Funding To Help DoD Pay Potential Billions In Industry’s COVID Claims, Lord Says
- Aurora Flight Sciences Awarded by DARPA to Design X-Plane Without Moving Control Surfaces
- HASC FY ’21 Tacair Mark Scrutinizes Air Force Proposed ISR Aircraft Retirements, Demands Answers on ABMS
- HASC Subcommittee Allows Air Force Bomber Retirement Requests, Fences Proposed Tanker Retirements
- Electronic Warfare Dominance, Hypersonics Among Top Priorities In Fiscal 2021 for Pentagon R&D Arm
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Monday, June 22, 2020
- Defense Watch: LMT Focus, Corporate Moves, CBP Funding Shortfall
- Space Officials: FY ’22 Looking ‘Very Hard’ at Next-Generation Missile Warning Architecture
- GAO Denies Second NGEN-R Protest
- MDA Working With Japan Aegis Ashore Concerns
- Marines Considering Land-Based Hypersonic Weapons
- HII Nabs Another $146 Million For LHA-9 Lead Time Material
- BAE Systems Enters Market for Electric Aircraft Energy Management, Engine Control Systems
- Army Opening $6.7 Million Lab This Summer To Study Future Rotorcraft Transmission Systems
- Lockheed Martin Ventures Invests In Augmented Reality Company Red 6
- Space Agreement Supports Future U.S. Launches from U.K. Soil
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Thursday, June 18, 2020
- DoD Releases New Strategy Aiming to Maintain U.S. Space Superiority
- Elbit America Develops AI-Based Solutions For Border And Other Security Applications
- Army Begins Fielding Newest Version Of Its Stryker Vehicles
- Launch Services Procurement Contracts on Track to Be Awarded This Summer
- Lockheed Martin Receives $180.7 Million For Next Phase Of Army’s PrSM Missile Program
- FirstNet Approves First Investments In 5G Network Upgrades
- First Fully Maritime BALTOPS Concludes
- Boeing Delivers First Block III Super Hornets To Navy For Tests
- State Department Approves $600 Million Deal With Ukraine For Mark VI Patrol Boats
- DoE Nuke Agency Staffer Taking Job on Senate Appropriations Panel
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Wednesday, June 17, 2020
- Space Policy Official Hopeful Final Acquisition Alternatives Report Will Soon Be Sent to Congress
- Nevada Dems Oppose Nuke Testing, as NDAA Adds Funds for Test-Resumption Prep
- US Space Force Completes GPS III SV-08 Core Mate, Names Vehicle After Katherine Johnson
- Kratos To Acquire CPI’s Antenna Business
- House Appropriator Lee Introduces Bill to Cut Pentagon Funding By $350 Billion
- Court Denies AS&E In Trade Secret Case Against Viken
- Sikorsky-Boeing’s SB-1 Defiant Reaches 205 Knots, Planning To Demonstrate Max Speed Within Months
- First StormBreaker Test With Super Hornet
- State Department Approves $862.3 Million Deal With Canada For CF-18 Hornet Weapons
- Second Ship-to-Shore Connector Finishes Acceptance Trials, GAO Reports Issues
- Army Has ‘High Confidence’ In Stryker 30mm Weapon Program After Losing Vendors During Design Study
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Tuesday, June 16, 2020
- Japan Suspends Aegis Ashore Due To Technical And Cost Concerns
- Army Reorganizing Its Top Information Technology Position
- Army Releases RFP For DoD Cyber Training Program Worth Nearly $1 Billion
- Taiclet Takes Helm Of Lockheed Martin
- Novetta Acquires Analytics Company WaveStrike
- Honeywell Creates Business Unit For Drones And Urban Air Mobility
- DHS Awards Perspecta $112 Million For Continued Data Center Support
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Monday, June 15, 2020
- Defense Watch: Space Force, Blackjack, Personnel Moves In DoD, DHS, and Industry
- Space Acquisition Reform Not Included in SASC NDAA Markup
- Senators Embrace Pivot to Pacific Theater in FY ’21 NDAA Markup
- Peters Introduces Cyber Security Bills To Strengthen National Guard, Economic Resilience
- SASC’s NDAA Markup Opposes FCC’s Approval Of Ligado 5G Network Plan Citing GPS Risks
- Lockheed Martin Nabs $1 Billion Mod For PAC-3 Missiles
- GAO Denies GD NGEN-R Protest, Info To Come
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Friday, June 12, 2020
- SASC Votes to Advance Its Version of FY ’21 Defense Authorization Bill
- Senate Armed Service’s FY ’21 NDAA Boosts F-35s, Prohibits Retiring Of Legacy Aircraft
- Army’s Next-Gen Helicopter Engine Program Entering Critical Design Review This Month
- SASC NDAA Maintains Ship Request, Adds Long Lead Funds And Restricts Unmanned Vessels
- Senate Committee’s Defense Authorization Act Has Requested $19.8B For NNSA
- SASC Leadership Supports DoD Need For Funds To Reimburse Industry’s COVID Costs
- Senate Bill Would Boost Cyber Threat Information Sharing By Defense Industry
- Pentagon Reopening Next Week Under ‘Phase 1’ COVID-19 Precautions
- Coast Guard Reorganizes C4I Unit To Better Deliver Technology Solutions