Defense Daily Archive
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Wednesday, April 3, 2019
- Smiths Detection’s Checkpoint CT Bid Well Below Expectations, Pekoske Says
- House Dems Unveil Two-Year Spending Deal With $733 Billion Topline, Higher Caps for DoD
- Kaptur Goes After NNSA Weapons Programs in 2020 Budget Hearing
- India Approved to Buy Two Dozen MH-60R Seahawks for $2.6B
- U.S. Army Plans to Divest All Alpha-Model Black Hawks by 2024
- Army Leaders Call For Fully Funded Modernization To Meet Peer Competition, Including Russia’s ‘Existential Threat’
- Thales Completes $5 Billion Acquisition Of Gemalto
- NASA Mars Helicopter: ‘The Next Time We Fly, We Fly on Mars’
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Tuesday, April 2, 2019
- Pentagon Halts Deliveries of F-35s to Turkey Pending S-400 Procurement
- Congressional Angst Over Single Checkpoint CT Award
- NASA Leader: Potential FY’20 Continuing Resolution Would Delay 2024 Moon Landing Goal
- Cyber Command Releases RFP To Support J9 Policy Development, Strategic Coordination
- Army’s Retooled Rapid Capabilities Office To Focus On Hypersonics, Directed Energy And Space Technologies
- Boeing XLUUV Mod Brings Contract To $274 Million, Increased To Five Vessels
- Lockheed Martin Nabs $1.46 Billion For U.S. And Saudi THAAD Interceptors, Pushes Total To Almost $4 Billion
- Icelandic Coast Guard Upgrades Rescue Fleet with Airbus H225s
- Raytheon, Lockheed Look to Get Ahead of Huge NAS Radar Contract
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Monday, April 1, 2019
- Defense Watch: B-1s Grounded, Aerojet Deal, India ASAT Test
- TSA Plans Second Competition For CT Checkpoint Scanners After Award To Smiths Detection
- Air Force Requires $632 Million in Above-Threshold Requirements Funding to Launch New Early Warning Satellites by 2025
- Army Releases RFP For Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle
- Army Selects Two Companies for RQ-7 Shadow Replacement
- HASC Chair: Air Force Moving Too Fast on Launch Services Procurement Program
- Wicker Pushes For Advanced Work On Amphibious Ships
- Navy Official Explains Third Virginia Sub in FY 2020
- Boeing Wants to Field Upgraded Compound Apache by 2028
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Friday, March 29, 2019
- DoD Continues to Weigh Whether to Use Two Rocket Motor Suppliers for GBSD Program
- Senators Introduce New Bipartisan Bill to Block F-35 Sales to Turkey
- Lawmakers Expect To Fund Truman Refueling Over Navy Plans
- CBP Considers Contractor Owned And Operated Aircraft For Surveillance And Recon
- Schultz Expects First Polar Security Cutter To Cost About $925 Million
- Army Releases New Air And Missile Defense Framework
- JLTV Reduction To Happen Over FYDP, Officials Planning Program Assessment For 2020
- Chinook Block II Makes First Flight, But Without New Rotor Blades
- Lockheed Receives $1.1 Billion To Deliver GMLRS To Bahrain, Poland and Romania
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Thursday, March 28, 2019
- Army To Drop Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle RFP On Friday
- Army Aviation Leader: Time to Choose a Future Long-Range Assault Helicopter
- Air Force Looking to Field New ‘Skyborg’ AI Concept by 2023
- CBP Bringing More Inspection Technology To Entry Ports To Screen Cargo, Vehicles
- Lawmakers, Indo-Pacom Commander Link Arms Against Fleet Cuts
- Border Patrol Looking To Acquire New Capabilities Rapidly, Official Says
- Berger Nominated For Marine Corps Commandant
- Air Force Selects Ellsworth AFB in South Dakota to Host First B-21
- HII Wins $1.47 Billion To Build The First LPD Flight II Ship
- Austal Wins $262 Million Mod For EPF-13 and -14; Unfunded Priorities List Converts EPF-14 To Medical Ship
- NNSA Again Seeks Substantial Increase for W80 Refurb
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Wednesday, March 27, 2019
- Army Releasing Updated Modernization Strategy This Summer
- Navy Officials Defend Cutting Truman To Congress
- Air Force Space Command Leader Tapped to Direct New U.S. Space Command
- Belgium to Purchase Four MQ-9B SkyGuardian Drones for $600 Million
- BAE Systems’ New Tech Demonstrator To Showcase Advanced Capabilities For Army’s Future Combat Vehicles
- Coast Guard Commandant: $35 Million in FY ’20 for New Heavy Icebreaker Enough to Maintain Program
- McConville Nominated To Be Next Army Chief Of Staff
- MDA Conducts First GBI Salvo Test
- DoE Nuke Budget Request Lacks ‘Clear Priorities,’ House Approps Cardinal Says
- Upgraded U.S. Air Force Trainer T-1A Completes First Flight
- NNSA Seeks $410M For South Carolina Pit Plant in FY ’20
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Tuesday, March 26, 2019
- Army Official: Beam Control Improvements ‘Next Frontier’ for Directed Energy Efforts
- New Mexico Nuke Standard Bearer Udall Will Leave Senate After 2020
- Morocco to Purchase, Upgrade F-16s for $4.77 Billion
- MDA Defines $4.1 Billion Of Boeing GMD Contract
- By Light Acquires Federal IT Services Provider Phacil
- CHC Helicopter Helps Two Ship Rescue Efforts in High Seas Off Norway
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Monday, March 25, 2019
- Defense Watch: Offutt Flooding, Dutch MQ-9s, Frigate Laser
- DoD Official: F-15EX Buy About Capacity Building, Supporting Defense Industrial Base
- Navy’s First Maintenance Report Calls For More Dry Docks
- GAO Finds DHS Improving Coordination Of R&D
- Northrop Grumman To Compete For Task Orders Under $982 Million Army CEMA Contract
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Friday, March 22, 2019
- Sikorsky-Boeing Defiant Coaxial Helicopter Lifts Off
- New 30-Year Shipbuilding Plan Sets Cap at 355 Ships
- Polar Security Cutter Contract Will Be Awarded This Spring, Commandant Says
- ScanEagle A ‘Game Changer’ For Coast Guard; Schultz Accelerating Fielding Of UAS
- Dunford Calls Turkey F-35 Delivery ‘A Tough Issue,’ Meeting With Google Next Week To Discuss China
- AFRL to Begin Testing High Power Microwave Weapon Programs
- Bell Teams With Rolls Royce For Propulsion of Advanced Tiltrotors
- Second GPS III Satellite Arrives in Florida for Projected July Launch
- DARPA Intends to Meet Goals of ALIAS Program This Year
- AM General Receives $89 Million To Deliver 739 Humvees For Army National Guard
- Boeing Wins $4 Billion Contract For 78 Super Hornets
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Thursday, March 21, 2019
- HASC Member Cooper Says FY ’20 Defense Topline Likely to be $733 Billion
- Navy To ‘Burn The Boats’ With Laser For Destroyer In 2021, Needs Bigger LSC For Lasers
- CISA Seeks Level Funding For Cyber Security In Budget Request
- HASC Strategic Forces Chair: ‘Prospects Could Hardly Be Brighter’ for Space Force
- SAIC Says Keene Assuming CEO Duties Immediately, Eliminating COO Position To Flatten Structure
- Lockheed Martin Top Spokeswoman Resigns For Job At UnitedHealth
- Boeing Names Head Of Joint Ventures With Embraer
- Israel And MDA Conduct David’s Sling Intercept Tests
- Lockheed Martin’s New SmartSat Venture Looks To Update Satellites Like Smartphones
- DoD IG Opens Investigation Into Shanahan’s Potential Conflicts Of Interest With Boeing
- BAE Systems To Demo Autonomous Air Operations Planning Tool For Final Phase Of DARPA Program
- Serbia Orders Three Airbus H215 Super Pumas
- White House Will Nominate Former Delta Air Lines Executive to Head FAA