Defense Daily Archive
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Wednesday, March 4, 2020
- Air Force Officials: KC-46 Remote Vision System Fix Expected in 2023
- TSA Plans To Provide Airports With Qualified Products List For Counter-Drone Solutions
- TSA Expects RFP This Summer For New Checkpoint CT Contract With Award A Year Later
- Perdue Calls for Detailed Air Force Acquisition Strategy on ABMS
- Avionics for Boeing FARA Design Provide Significant Autonomy, Company Says
- Lawmakers Press Army Leadership On Approach To OMFV, IFPC Programs
- State Department Approves $2.4 Billion Sale of KC-46 Aircraft to Israel
- State Department Approves $239.4 Million Deal With Morocco For M88 Recovery Vehicles
- Gilday Defends OFRP, Though Open To Tweaks
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Tuesday, March 3, 2020
- Officials: DoD On Track For First Hypersonic Glide Body Test Later This Year, Exploring Cruise Missile Configurations
- Thornberry: Nuclear Stockpile Recap to Be ‘Most Contentious’ Issue in FY ’21 NDAA
- PACAF Commander Brown Nominated As Next Air Force Chief of Staff
- Textron Wins $22 Million For Counter-Mine USVs After Milestone C
- SASC Democrat Endorses Biden as Other Moderate Candidates Line Up Behind Ex-Veep
- Private Equity Firm AEI Acquires Space Technology Company AMA
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Monday, March 2, 2020
- Defense Watch: Bomber Numbers, USV Assessment, Light Attack
- Modly Reveals Next Force Structure Assessment Details, Working Toward 390-Ship Fleet
- Navy Explains FSA, 30-Year Shipbuilding Report Delays
- Fighter/Bomber PEO: F-16 Depot Modernization Contract Moving Forward
- SpaceX Leader Talks Starlink Production, Reusability at Air Force Conference
- Canceled Defensive System For B-2 Suffered From Coding Challenges, Roper Says
- Norway Ambassador Braithwaite Officially Nominated As Navy Secretary
- EASA and FAA to Issue Further Guidance on Multicore Certification This Year
- Amphibious Assault Ship LHA-7 Delivered To The Navy
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Friday, February 28, 2020
- Key KC-46A Tanker System Made Big Progress In Past Few Weeks, Roper Says
- Navy Leaders Admit FY 2021 Shipbuilding Cuts Grow Fleet Slower
- Goldfein: ‘Night Court’ Savings Rolled Back to Save COCOMs from Near-Term Risk
- Northrop Grumman Conducts Static Fire Test Of OmegA Rocket’s Second Stage Motor
- Border Patrol Prioritizing New AI-Based Sensor Towers, CBP Chief Says
- Navy’s Unmanned UISS Reaches Milestone C
- New Air Force Combat Rescue Helicopter Receives Official Name, Awarded Second LRIP Contract
- Some W87 Warheads Will Go on GBSD Without Getting New Pits First
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Thursday, February 27, 2020
- Bipartisan Group of Lawmakers Criticize DoD Procurement Reprogramming to Trump’s Border Wall
- HASC Members Slam DoD Leaders for ‘Anemic’ Shipbuilding Plan in FY ‘21
- Armed Services Chair Says DoE Has Cash Pile, Questions Planned Raid on Pentagon Progs for Nuke Mods
- Palazzo Laments Lack Of Funding For 12th National Security Cutter In Coast Guard Budget
- ManTech Wins $920 Million Order To Modernize Sensors On Navy Recon/Patrol Aircraft
- Army Selects Palantir, BAE Systems For $823.3 Million DCGS-A Support Contract
- State Department Approves Aircraft And Equipment Sales To Tunisia, Netherlands and Jordan
- Raytheon, IronNet Team On Cyber Security For Critical Infrastructure
- BAE Systems Receives $113.5 Million Deal From Marine Corps For 26 ACVs
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Tuesday, February 25, 2020
- Roper: Next-Gen OPIR ‘Strategically Important Program’ in FY ‘21
- Report Outlines Threats, Benefits To Homeland Security From 3D Printing
- DoE Seeks Massive Increase for ICBM Warhead, Pit Infrastructure in 2021
- Pentagon Adopts New Ethical Principles For Artificial Intelligence
- DoD Takes Directed Energy Out of MDA
- Wolf Directs DHS Advisory Council To Assess Biometrics, Economic And ICT Security
- Legal, Policy Pursuits Lag Counter-Drone Needs, DHS Advisory Report Says
- DDG-119 Finishes Builder’s Trials, Acceptance Trials Next
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Monday, February 24, 2020
- Defense Watch: Coast Guard Counter Drone, New USCG Cyber Strategy, LSP Contracts
- Roper: Air Force’s ‘Massive’ Second ABMS Demo to Include Live-Fire Exercises
- Air Force Requests $3.2 Billion in Unfunded Priorities in FY ‘21, Space Force Seeks $1 Billion
- Army’s $7 Billion Unfunded Priorities List Includes $985 Million For Modernization
- DoD Plans W93 To Succeed W76 and W88 SLBM Warheads
- Air Force to Begin Fly-Off, Certification Campaign for Electric VTOL Aircraft
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Friday, February 21, 2020
- Sikorsky, Boeing Confident In Data Gathered For SB-1 Defiant Ahead Of March FLRAA Downselect Decision
- FY 2021 Request Starts Work on Future Amphibs and Logistics Ships
- Schultz Says Strategy In Place For Third Polar Security Cutter
- Lockheed Martin Contracts With Guardtime Federal To Secure Software Supply Chain
- Sikorsky Starting To Build Raider X Offering For Army’s FARA Program
- SMC Releases RFI for New Deep Space Radar Program Worth $927 Million over FYDP
- Space Force Finalizes New Enterprise SATCOM Vision
- Coast Guard Plans Technology Revolution To Improve Operations, Access To Technology
- Sikorsky Lands $471 Million Contract For Six More VH-92A Presidential Helos
- DoE Seeks $53 Million for W93 in Fiscal 2021; Won’t Detail Timeline for Producing Weapon
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Thursday, February 20, 2020
- Army To Release Wanted Characteristics For Restarted Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle
- Dems Ask DoD to Explain W76-2 Use Plans, Effect on NNSA Complex
- Pentagon Policy Leader Rood to Step Down at Urging of President
- Aerospace And Defense Companies In Working Group To Improve Supply Chain Solutions
- Air Force Scoping Market Availability for New F-15 Radar Sources
- Modly Starts Navy Night Court-Style Review To Save $40 Billion
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Wednesday, February 19, 2020
- Army Restores $200 Million In FY ’21 From 12 Programs Originally Included In ‘Night Court’ Cuts
- NNSA to Contract for More JASON Work by April
- BWX Technologies Reels in NNSA Reactor Component Contract for Carriers
- Fluor Nixes Planned Sale of Gov Biz, Including Civilian Nuke Contracts
- Taxes Trim Leidos’ Fourth Quarter Earnings Despite Strong Sales
- State Department: ‘Room to Reconcile’ on U.S.-Turkey F-35 Debacle
- Air Force Budget Request Includes $120 Million for U-2 Aircraft
- CISA Publishes Strategic Plan To Bolster 2020 Election Security
- Official: Army Will Require Budget Growth To Fund Modernization, In Addition To Night Court Savings
- Oshkosh Receives $407 Million JLTV Deal, As Army Announces Industry Day Eyeing Potential Program Adjustment
- Navy Renews $2.3 Billion H-60 Support Contract