Defense Daily Archive
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Friday, April 19, 2019
- Boeing In Talks On Capitol Hill And Pentagon To Restore Funding For CH-47F Block II
- Air-to-Air Refueling For FVL “Increasingly Important” For Army Special Operations Pilots
- MD Helicopters Not Giving Up On FARA Bid, Chief Executive Says
- Air Force Funding New Hypersonic Wind Tunnel Sites At Arnold AFB, Indiana Universities
- Northrop Grumman Receives $24 Million To Build New Cyber Capabilities For Unified Platform
- DHS Touts Success Of Fledgling Biometric Exit Checks For Foreign Nationals
- U.S. Completes Three International Naval Exercises This Week
- Lockheed’s VTOL Data Fusion Sensor Suite Tested On V-280
- If Bell 407GXi Wins Navy Trainer Contest, Final Assembly To Take Place In Alabama
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Thursday, April 18, 2019
- New Air Force S&T Strategy Recommends Forming CTO Position
- Army Taps Three Companies For ‘Automated Failover’ Radio Evaluation, Soldier Tests Starting In September
- Fitzgerald Leaves Dry Dock In Repair Milestone
- AF Global Strike Command Leader Expects Cost of New ICBM to Increase in Short Term
- Lockheed Martin Moves F-35 Suppliers To Longer Term Contracts
- Sales, Earnings Dip At Textron In First Quarter Despite Strong Operating Performance
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Wednesday, April 17, 2019
- FORSCOM: “Major delays” In AH-64E Re-Manufacturing, Parts Problems Must Stop
- Air Force Awards Boeing $14 Billion Bomber Weapons Sustainment Contract
- Leonardo DRS Delivering First MFoCS II Tablets In October, Exploring Upgrades For Future Computing Requirements
- Air Force Releases RFI Seeking New Airborne ISR, Geoint Capabilities
- Pratt & Whitney Nabs $202 Million Mod For F-35 Engine Work
- DOE Lab To Seek Bids On Waste Treatment Plant For Warhead Core Factory
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Monday, April 15, 2019
- Defense Watch: More WGS? Icebreaker Concerns, HASC Markup Schedule, In-Q-Tel Investment
- Air Force’s Next Pitch Day to Focus on Space
- Air Force Pushing To Cut 100 Years From Contract Schedules With Agile Software, Digital Engineering
- Long Live the King: With Problems Fixed, CH-53K Contract Expected in Weeks
- Senators Largely Skeptical Of Space Force Proposal; NRO Could Join Later
- UPDATED: US Marines Plan to Experiment With Fully Autonomous K-MAX Helicopters
- Mack’s First New Heavy Dump Truck Test Vehicles Readying For Army Testing
- SpaceX’s Historic Falcon Heavy Arabsat-6A Launch Is a Success
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Friday, April 12, 2019
- Air Force Leaders Outline Potential Elements of Space Deterrence
- Air Force Space Command to Reveal New SATCOM Strategy by End of 2019
- Pekoske Tapped As Acting Deputy At DHS; Cogswell To Lead TSA
- Amazon, Microsoft To Compete For Pentagon’s $10 Billion JEDI Cloud, Contract Award Likely Mid-July
- VCNO Moran Nominated To Be CNO
- Air Force to Begin Open Skies Sensor Suite Sustainment in 2020
- Navy Orders 24 E-2Ds from Northrop Grumman
- THAAD Headed To Romania While Aegis Ashore Gets Maintenance
- Marine Corps Looking To Open Architecture Approach For SIGINT Modernization
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Thursday, April 11, 2019
- Air Force Planning to Stand Up Space Force by 2024, Pending Lawmakers’ Approval
- Navy Secretary ‘Pretty Confident’ Frigate Cost Will Stay At Estimate
- Stryker Lethality Upgrade To Start With Integration Tests In June, Weapon System Contract In FY ’20
- Polar Star Departs Soon For Annual Dry Dock Work In Preparation For Next Deep Freeze Mission
- Bipartisan Bill Reintroduce In Congress To Help States Bolster Cyber Security
- Hughes to Develop Protected Tactical Enterprise Service for Boeing
- Global Space Agency Leaders Offer Views On Next 50 Years For Space Industry
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Wednesday, April 10, 2019
- New SDA Director Unveils Notional Space Architecture, Outlines Top Agency Priorities
- Roper: Air Force Close to Resuming KC-46 Deliveries
- FVL ‘Absolutely Fundamental’ to Army Maneuver Warfare Against Near Peer, Milley Says
- Japanese F-35A Fighter Missing over Pacific Ocean, Remaining Fleet Grounded
- Air Force Officials Defend F-15EX Buy As Gapfiller To Meet Operational Readiness Challenges
- White House Nominates Stratcom Commander for Vice Chair, Joint Chiefs
- Thornberry To Introduce Two Pentagon Reform Bills In May Ahead Of HASC NDAA Markup
- SecNavy, CNO Confident Ford Ready By October, Amphibs May Be Bought Faster
- L3 Protests TSA Checkpoint CT Award; TSA Hopes To Accelerate Acquisition Schedule
- Rocket Lab to Provide a Speedy Ride to Orbit With New ‘Photon’ Spacecraft
- State Department Approves $1.15 Billion SM-3 IB Missile Sale To Japan
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Tuesday, April 9, 2019
- Northrop to Test First Stage of New OmegA Rocket in May
- BWXT Blunder With Columbia Missile Tube Welds Chewed Two-Thirds of Program’s Margin
- Harris Receives $84 Million to Produce Experimental Satellite to Enhance GPS Capabilities
- GAO: Columbia Construction Costs Unrealistic
- Army To Look For IVAS Data Capability, As Officials See First Headset Prototypes This Month
- Arnold Defense Receives First Order For New Land-Based Laser Guided Rocket Launcher
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Monday, April 8, 2019
- Defense Watch: RC-135 Role in ABMS, SECAF to UTEP, Unfunded TSA Priorities
- Harris To Sell Night Vision Business To Elbit, Moving A Step Closer To Completing L3 Deal
- Lawmakers Continue to Press Air Force on F-15EX Buy
- HASC Chair Reintroduces Bill to End Sequestration
- Navy Reports Progress On Increasing Fighter Mission Capable Rates
- MDA Director Retiring In July, Deputy Nominated to Take Over
- O’Gara Receives $60.7 Million Army Deal For FMTV Armor Kits
- New Collins Electric Aircraft Lab Has High-Voltage Engine Goals
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Defense Daily, Friday, April 5, 2019, Vol. 282, Issue 5
// PDF View- Air Force to SASC: Possible Sequestration Would Cut $29 Billion from FY ’20 Budget
- Shareholders Of Harris, L3 Approve Merger
- Army To Start Enterprise IT “As A Service” Effort With Three Pilot Programs In FY19, Five More In 2020
- B83 Bomb Can Go 5-7 More Years Without Major Refurb, DoE Says
- Army Reveals Official Requirements For Future Black Hawk Replacement
- Doubling Cutter Presence In Drug Transit Zones Would Crimp Drug Trade, Schultz Says
- Navy Rules Out Contamination As PE Cause, Narrows Factors
- Greaves Describes MDA Salvo Test Success And RKV Delay
- GAO Finds Mixed Results In TSA’s Covert Testing Efforts
- Army Releases RFI For New Small UAS