Defense Daily Archive
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Wednesday, June 26, 2019
- Sikorsky Using Raider to Refine Future Army Attack Aircraft Design
- New Acting Space Development Agency Director Named
- Senior Army Officials Pushing Forward With Modernization Reform Amid Leadership Transition
- Back on Schedule: Sikorsky Carves Five Months From Combat Rescue Helicopter Program
- GD Lodges Second Protest To HII LCS Planning Yard Services Contract
- Pentagon To Now Award $10 Billion JEDI Cloud Contract In Late August, DoD CIO Says
- House Democrats Introduce TSA Covert Testing Bill
- BAE Systems Receives $67 Million To Develop ACV Variants
- Army Awards Lockheed Martin $562 Million For ATACMS, Including Sales To Bahrain, Poland And Romania
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Tuesday, June 25, 2019
- Oshkosh Completes Successful Javelin Flight Test With JLTV
- Air Force’s Latest Advanced EHF Satellite Launch Delayed Until July
- Retired Military Officials Jumping Into 2020 Races
- Lockheed Martin, MBDA Deutschland Submit Official Proposal For Germany’s Future Missile Defense System
- BALTOPS Finishes After More Serials And Simultaneous Operations
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Monday, June 24, 2019
- Defense Watch: Space Officials Depart, Contracting Tips, Chinese Suppliers?
- B-52 Upgrades Could Lead to New ‘J’ Model
- Army Approves JLTV For Full-Rate Production
- L3 Technologies Looks Forward to Air-Ground Synergies With Harris for MUM-T Effort
- Navy Issues Final FFG(X) Frigate RFP
- Air Force Seeking to Begin KC-46 Boom Fix This Summer
- Approval In Hand, Harris To Complete Acquisition Of L3 On June 29
- Army Under Secretary Working To Secure Chinook Deals With U.K., UAE
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Friday, June 21, 2019
- Air Force Moving ‘Extremely Fast’ on New Missile to Replace AMRAAM
- LSC Will Look More Zumwalt Than Arleigh Burke Says PEO Ships
- Justice Department Gives Nod To Harris Acquisition Of L3
- Textron to Deliver Aerosonde HQ Drones to Army for FTUAS Testing
- FARA Offering by AVX/L3 Made to Satisfy Requirements from Get Go, L3 Says
- TSA Expects To Award Next Tranche Of Checkpoint CT Systems In Late Summer 2020
- CISA Supply Chain Task Force Progressing On New Requirements To Be Released This Summer
- Senate Votes To Block Saudi Arms Deal, Facing Potential White House Veto
- Iran Shoots Down One Of Four Legacy Navy Global Hawk UAVs
- Acting Deputy DHS Secretary Pekoske Expects To Return To TSA, Agency Official Says
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Thursday, June 20, 2019
- House’s 2020 ‘Minibus’ Bill Heads to Senate on Party Line Vote
- Proposed House Spending Bill Whacks Next-Gen ICBMs, Bans Low Yield Nuke, Keeps Naval Reactor Research Alive
- Air Force Continues to Consider What Comes After KC-46
- Navy Finishes Flight Tests For RAM Upgrade
- Navy Experimenting With MCM On ESBs This Summer
- Senate Homeland Security Committee Approves DHS Nominations, Counter Drone Bill
- Trump: Esper ‘Most Likely’ Will Be Nominated for Defense Secretary
- Boeing Moving Space And Launch HQ To Florida
- ACC, AFSOC to Hone Light Attack Experiment Plan, Targeting Fall Completion
- Senate Panel Hears About Supply Chain Security Risks From China’s Dominance Of Small Drone Market
- Bell Aims at Increasing V-22 Mission Readiness Rates by 10 to 12 Percent
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Wednesday, June 17, 2019
- Shanahan Resigns as Pentagon’s Number-Two, Withdraws Nomination for SecDef Position
- Senators Suggest Extending Counter UAS Authorities To State And Local Officials
- Army Official Explains New IP Strategy
- Dassault Unveils Future Combat Air System Mock Up
- AECOM to Spin Off Government Contracting Branch
- L3 Joint Venture With Saudi Arabian Company ‘Key Milestone’ in L3 International Growth Plan, CEO Says
- Delayed Explosives Order Means Delay for LRSO Warhead, GAO Says
- Lawmakers Call on Trump to Nominate Permanent Defense Secretary Soon
- Sikorsky Looks To German and Israeli Heavy Lift Competitions
- Pentagon Announces $250 Million In Security Assistance Funding To Ukraine
- Raytheon Teams With Black Sage On Counter-Drone Technology; Howler C-UAS Achieves IOC With Army
- Senate Defense Panel Wants Army Plan to Accelerate Black Hawk Replacement
- Joint Chiefs Vice Chair Goes To Bat For Low-Yield Nukes As Debate Picks Up On The Hill
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Tuesday, June 18, 2019
- Lockheed Martin Seeking Foreign Customers for Maritime C-130Js
- Peraton To Acquire Solers To Strengthen Space Capabilities
- Air Force, Lockheed Laud Successful Flight Test of Hypersonic Weapon Aboard B-52
- Army Awards $190 Million In Prototype Deals For Synthetic Training Environment’s Software Backbone
- GE Sees Bright Decade Ahead in Military and Commercial Aircraft Engines
- Collins Aerospace Sees Big Demand For New, Retrofit ‘Fly-By-Wire’ System
- Air Force Adds Billions to Boeing’s JDAM Contract Ceiling
- BAE Wins Boeing Award For MQ-25 IFF And Control System
- Boeing Estimates Global Defense And Space Market Of $2.5 Trillion Through 2028
- ‘Valkyrie’ Unmanned Air Vehicle Successfully Completes Second Flight
- Fincantieri and Naval Group Sign Joint Venture Agreement
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Monday, June 17, 2019
- Defense Watch: Silicon Valley, GPS III, New MUOS Partner
- Army Exploring New Tactical Space Layer Strategy
- Defense Bills Concerned With Columbia Schedule
- SASC Proposes Establishing 5G Testing Facilities In NDAA Mark
- Thales Acquires Artificial Intelligence Company Psibernetix
- French Air Force Orders Additional H225M
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Friday, June 14, 2019
- HASC Passes $733 Billion NDAA Mark, Includes Plans For A ‘Space Corps’
- Untapped PNT Data from Ground Receivers Could Help More Quickly Detect Jamming, Spoofing
- Fireworks Over Low-Yield Warhead as House Armed Services Committee Approves 2020 NDAA
- Jacobs Completes Acquisition Of KeyW
- HASC Amendment Reinstates SM-3 IIA ICBM Test
- Army Puts Boeing On Contract For Seven More Special Ops Chinooks
- Regulatory Clarity, Cybersecurity Framework Will Help Better Protect Defense Supply Chains, Deloitte Says
- U.K. Regulators Approve Rheinmetall, BAE Military Vehicle Venture
- Harris Receives Second LRIP Order For Army Two-Channel Radios
- HII Wins $687 Million for Early CVN-78 Ship Repair Work
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Thursday, June 13, 2019
- Army Prioritizing Position, Navigation and Timing Technologies Across Service Portfolio
- South Korea, Japan to Plus-Up Position, Navigation and Timing Satellite Systems
- Dem Senators Want FBI To Explain Response To Russian Hacking Of Election Systems Firm
- House Panel Approves IoT Cyber Security Bill
- Cost Big Factor in GE Win on Army ITEP, As Outlined In GAO Report
- Air Force’s Joint Forces Space Component Command Missions to Move to U.S. Space Command
- HASC Naval Amendments Direct More Reports and Briefings
- GAO: Air Force Shifting Funding from Delayed KC-46 Program to Sustain KC-135 Operations
- Nuke Hawks, Doves Pile Up Amendments for 2020 Spending Bills on House Floor
- HASC Adds NDAA Amendments For Reports On Unmanned Projects, Air Force’s 386 Squadron Requirements
- HASC Seeks Joint Hypersonics Transition Office With NDAA Amendment