Defense Daily Archive
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Friday, July 26, 2019
- House Passes Two-Year Budget Deal, Senate to Vote Next Week
- Raytheon Rock Solid In Second Quarter, Raises Guidance
- Private Equity Firm Advent International To Acquire Britain’s Cobham For $5 Billion
- Coast Guard, DoD Plan To Research, Test Communications In Arctic With Healy Deployment
- With Milley Vote Secured, Senate Rushing to Fill Empty Pentagon Seats
- Boeing Triggers Nuclear Option, Walks Away From ‘Unfair’ ICBM Competition
- BAE Nabs Follow-On Block V VPM Tube Contract
- Northrop Grumman Wins AN/SPQ-9 Radar Design Agent Award
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Thursday, July 25, 2019
- HASC GOP Leader Urging Colleagues to Support Two-Year Budget Deal Despite Lower Defense Topline
- GD Reports Higher Sales And Earnings In Second Quarter; Raises Guidance
- New Pentagon Secretary Approves Of Proposed Budget Deal’s $738 Billion FY ’20 Defense Topline
- Northrop Grumman Posts Strong Second Quarter With Earnings, Sales Higher
- Air Force Vice Chief of Staff: First Flight of B-21 Expected Around Late 2021
- Deputy SECDEF Nominee Says Raytheon-UTC Merger Consideration Will Be His Responsibility
- House Approves Two-Year Coast Guard Authorization Bill
- Canada Releases RFP To Replace Aging CF-18s
- Boeing Swings To Loss, Sales Plummet Amid 737 MAX Challenges
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Wednesday, July 24, 2019
- Proposed Two-Year Budget Deal Banishes Sequester Threat, But Investments Could Suffer in 2021
- Lockheed Martin Continues Strong Momentum In Second Quarter With Higher Earnings, Sales
- Mark Esper Becomes First Permanent Secretary of Defense of 2019
- DoE Faces Fight to Hit Requested 2020 Nuclear Weapons Budget, Even After Caps Deal
- Lockheed Martin Invests In Rocket Developer ABL Space Systems
- NSA Standing Up New Cybersecurity Directorate
- Fincantieri Marinette Adds Former Navy Leaders
- Croatia To Use Camcopter S-100 for Coast Guard Functions
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Tuesday, July 23, 2019
- ULA CEO: Component Issues that Delayed Summer Launches Won’t Affect Vulcan Rocket
- HASC GOP Leader Urges Congress to Consider AUMF Debate Through Cyber War Lens
- FAA Allows Military Aircraft to Turn Off ADS-B Transmissions
- Parsons To Acquire QRC Technologies In Further Expansion Of Defense And Intel Business
- Lockheed Martin Wins Another $1.47 Billion For Saudi THAAD Support
- Air Force Pilots Conduct First Flight of New Combat Rescue Helicopter
- French Armed Forces Herald U.K. Chinooks’ Participation in Mali Operations
- Army Seeking Industry Support For Joint Munitions Command’s Transition To AI Tools
- LHA-7 Finishes Builder’s Trials
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Monday, July 22, 2019
- Defense Watch: Budget Talks, KC-46 Review, U.K. P-8s, Election Threat Adviser
- Army Sets It Sights On 2023 For Major Long Range Precision Fires Programs
- GAO Denies L3Harris Protests Of Advanced Checkpoint Scanner Contract To Smiths
- Another Half-Year NGEN Extension
- Navy To Solicit NIXIE Torpedo Countermeasures
- The First Public Flight of Sikorsky’s S-97 Raider
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Friday, July 19, 2019
- SASC Approval Clears Way for Senate Confirmation for Top Two Pentagon Officials
- Army To Hold Open Competition For OMFV Production Phase, Award Scheduled For FY ’23
- Army Futures Command To Announce It’s Reached Full Operational Capability
- Gilday Formally Nominated As CNO
- Esper, Milley Highlight Importance Of Arctic, Need For Navy To Operate In Region
- Leonardo TH-119 Becomes First Single-Engine Helicopter In Decades To Gain FAA Instrument Certification
- 737 MAX Woes Lead Boeing To Record $4.9 Billion Charge, Hit To Sales
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Thursday, July 18, 2019
- Artificial Intelligence Top Technology Priority for SECDEF Nominee Esper
- Turkey Officially Removed From F-35 Program, Pentagon Spending Up To $600 Million For Alternative Parts
- Security Forum, Infrastructure Among Needs For Arctic As Activity Increases, Senators Stress
- Expected ULA Launch of Second GPS III Satellite Delayed
- Air Force to Award Big ICBM Manufacturing Contract By End of Summer 2020
- Textron Expects Bell 407, 429 Production to Ramp Up By End of Year
- Portugal to Acquire Five Embraer KC-390s to Replace Lockheed C-130Hs
- Navy Releases MUSV RFP, Official Stresses Experimentation Before Use
- House Approves Amendment For Cyber Pilot Program To Protect Electric Grids
- Northrop Grumman Submits Proposal For Army’s LTAMDS Program
- GAO Recommends Army Improve Futures Command’s Small Business Engagement
- Army to Hold Future Long Range Assault Aircraft Industry Day July 31
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Wednesday, July 17, 2019
- SASC Chairman: Esper Nomination Could Be Put on Senate Floor by Thursday
- Official: Army To Ramp Up Hypersonic Booster Tests In ‘21, First High-Powered Lasers Arriving In ‘22
- Lockheed Martin Receives $492 Million HIMARS Deal, Includes First Deliveries To Poland
- Cyber Security Bill Introduced To Protect U.S. Research; House Passes Small Business Cyber Measures
- Warren, Other SASC Members Press SECDEF Nominee over Past at Raytheon
- Trump Indicates Turkey Will Not Receive F-35s as S-400 Deliveries Occur
- Raytheon Submits Proposal For Army’s Patriot Radar Replacement Program
- ESCO Technologies Acquires Supplier Of Composite Products For Navy Submarines
- Erickson Upgrades Defense Fleet With Airbus H225 Super Pumas
- U.S. House Directs Pentagon, FAA to Address Aircraft Noise After Complaints of Rattled Nerves Around D.C.
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Tuesday, July 16, 2019
- Esper’s SECDEF Nomination Comes Through; Spencer Becomes Third Acting SECDEF of 2019
- BAE Systems Receives $45 Million To Develop Extended Range Cannon Artillery Prototype
- Sintavia Acquires Testing Company QC Labs
- State Department Approves $401 Million Patriot Missile Sale To Germany
- Naval Group Launches First New French Attack Sub
- Raytheon Nabs $110 Million Award For International Cyber Ops Center
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Monday, July 15, 2019
- Defense Watch: 2020 Update, F-35 PEO; Ethics Efforts Falter, Drug Bust
- House Passes $733 Billion Fiscal Year 2020 NDAA Largely Along Party Lines
- Airports Need Federal Guidance On UAS Detection Technologies And Help Countering Drones, Report Says
- White House Opposes SM-3 IIA Test Change In House NDAA
- Court Denies Oracle’s Challenge To Pentagon’s Potential $10 Billion JEDI Cloud Program
- House Defense Bill Wants DoD Study Of Arctic Port
- Lawmakers Condemn Turkey’s S-400 Acquisition, Urge Consequences
- Greece Cleared to Buy $600 Million in MH-60R Helicopters, Weapons and Equipment
- CH-53E Super Stallion Reaches One Million Flight Hours