Defense Daily Archive
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Monday, June 1, 2020
- Defense Watch: COVID Impact on Defense Work, Leidos Payment, Hill Schedule
- Final Space Acquisition Alternatives Report to Be Sent to Congress ‘Soon’
- DHS To Update Industry On Needs Amid Pandemic Response
- DoD Uses CARES Act Funds to Support Space Defense Industrial Base
- Navy Seeks New Multi-Engine Trainer Aircraft
- Army Awards $3.4 Billion Deal To General Dynamics For Hydra-70 Rockets
- MDA Aims To Upgrade LRDR By 2023
- DIU Selects ZScaler For Secure Cloud Management Prototype Competition
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Defense Daily, Friday, May 29, 2020
- Industry Leaders: Increasing Automation Will Be a ‘Force Multiplier’ for Defense Sector
- CBP Lining Up Acquisition Of Small Hybrid Drones
- Trump Administration Seeks Comments On 5G Security Implementation Plan
- About 1 Month Remains on Temporary COVID-19 Contractor Indemnity Determination
- State Department Approves $800 Million Sale Of PAC-3 MSEs To Kuwait
- Former STRATCOM Hand Tapped for Pentagon Post With Nuclear Weapons Council Role
- SASC Leaders Introduce New Pacific Deterrence Initiative to Bolster Counter-China Efforts
- Army Taps Leonardo DRS To Digitize M777A2 Howitzers’ Fire Control Systems
- Justice Department Requires CPI To Divest Antenna Business To Acquire GD’s SatCom Unit
- Pentagon, Air Force To Build 5G Network For Prototype Testing At Nellis AFB
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Thursday, May 28, 2020.
- Army Planning Potential Demo This Fall To Test New ‘Sensor-To-Shooter’ Network For Modernization Systems
- Air Force Official: Palletized Munitions ‘Major Element’ of New Warfighting Concept
- Outlook For F-35 Growth Remains Bright, Hewson Says
- Marine Corps Says No Official Decision Made To Use Army’s Next-Gen Squad Weapon Program To Replace M27 Rifles
- No Clear Answers on How to Effectively Detect, Mitigate Drone Threats, Experts Say
- Boeing Begins Involuntary Layoffs, with Minimal Impact to Defense Sector
- Navy Releases RFP For LCS and LUSV Combat System Integration And Testing
- House Democrats Propose Commission To Update Counterterrorism Policy
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Wednesday, May 27, 2020
- DoE Could be Ready to Go With Minimal Nuke Test in Nevada in ‘Months,’ Pentagon Official Says
- Secret Service Looks To Establish UAS Program To Further Missions
- Space Force Completes Preliminary Design Review for Next Missile Warning Satellite Payloads
- Perspecta To Work With HP On Legacy NGEN Hardware
- Senate Armed Services Committee Releases FY ’21 NDAA Markup Schedule
- Random COVID-19 Tests Mandatory at Nuke Weapons Lab
- Kongsberg To Deliver Latest Version Of Its Protector Remote Weapon Station To Canada
- Navy Ship Shoots Downs UAV In Laser Test
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Tuesday, May 26, 2020
- Defense Watch: COVID-19 Travel, Space Force Updates, Ligado Pushback
- Senators Want Regular GAO Assessments Of KC-46 Progress
- Commission Calls For Greater Support During Pandemic To Smaller Firms Working On AI Capabilities
- House Members Ask Congressional Leadership To Boost Support For State And Local IT
- Navy Releases Medium Unmanned Underwater Vehicle RFP
- Navy Hosting LDUUV Industry Days In June
- LCS-24 Finishes Acceptance Trials
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Friday, May 22, 2020
- Air Force to Award Initial F-15EX Engine Contract to GE, Considering Open Competition for Next Lots
- Trump’s New Arms Control Negotiator Says Hurting Nuke Modernization Hurts Arms Control
- Ford Ahead On Maintenance, Reducing Work Needed After Shock Trials
- Pandemic Heightens Importance Of Certain National Critical Infrastructures, Krebs Says
- State Department Approves $180 Million Deal With Taiwan For MK-48 Torpedoes
- Viasat And Data Link Solutions Win $2 Billion Contracts For Navy Radios
- U.S. to Formally Withdraw from Open Skies Treaty
- JAIC Director Places Battlefield AI As Top Priority, Discusses Need For Acquisition Authorities
- Pentagon’s Defense Innovation Unit Selects Google For Multi-Cloud Security Solution
- Senate Confirms Braithwaite for Next Navy Secretary
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Thursday, May 21, 2020
- Air Force Formally Launches Skyborg Drone Program with Multiple Contracts Possible
- McConnell: Senate Could Confirm Defense Nominees Before Memorial Day Weekend
- Navy Finishing Next-Gen Jammer Low Band Tests
- F-35A Crash Lands Days After F-22 Crash
- Air Force Releases Final RFP to Replace B-52 Engines
- Navy Finished Frigate Debriefs, Geurts Comfortable With Program
- Army Has Delayed Robotic Combat Vehicle Experiments, Restructured Later Phase To Boost Competition
- Flexible, Neural Networks Will Be Part of FCAS Design, Airbus Official Says
- NIST Initiates Building Block Effort With Private Sector On 5G Cyber Security
- Respirators for COVID-19 Protection Will Cost NNSA More Than it Bargained For
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Wednesday, May 20, 2020
- Marine Corps To Use Army’s Next-Generation Squad Weapon Program To Replace Its M27 Rifles
- Lockheed Martin to Slow F-35 Deliveries Due to COVID-19-Related Supplier Delays
- L3Harris Completes Sale Of Instrumentation Business Unit
- Navy Vet Garcia Sworn In As New CA-25 GOP Lawmaker
- Energy Dept. Publishes Return-to-Work Guidelines
- CBP Guardian UAS Damaged After ‘Hard Landing’
- Key Milestones Reached for Space Force’s Next Weather Satellite Program
- DHS Releases Draft Scope For FirstSource III Contract
- Pentagon’s Technology Office Places Microelectronics As New Top Priority
- GAO Details Denial Of Airbus Navy Helo Trainer Protest
- After Corrective Action, CBP Awards $1.3 Billion Aircraft Maintenance Contract To PAE
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Tuesday, May 19, 2020
- Number of Contractors to Work on Air Force’s ABMS Program Expected to Ramp Up
- Northrop Grumman Nabs $2.3 Billion for Two Satellites in Space Force’s Next-Gen OPIR Program
- TSA Releases Insider Threat Roadmap For Transportation Sector
- ULA Launches X-37B Spaceplane for Space Force
- Navy Looking Into Grenades For C-UAS
- Army Seeking Second Source Supplier For Small Caliber Ammo
- Joint Artificial Intelligence Center Awards Booz Allen Hamilton $800 Million Deal For Battlefield AI
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Monday, May 18, 2020
- Defense Watch: DHS CFO, Drone Security, Blackjack Launch F-22 Crash
- Air Force Expands Criteria for Future U.S. Space Command Headquarters Location
- U.S. Puts Further Restrictions On China’s Huawei
- Air Force Completes Key Milestone for Ground-Based Strategic Deterrent
- MDA Considering OTA Consortium Manager For Research And Prototyping
- Navy To Hold Industry Day For Next Generation Logistics Ship
- Texas A&M Approves $79.3 Million To Begin Construction Of Army Futures Command Facility This Fall
- Oshkosh Defense, Saudi Arabia’s Al Tadrea Establish New Armored Vehicle Joint Venture