Defense Daily Archive
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Monday, May 5, 2025
- Defense Watch: ALPV Update, Russian EW, Sentinel, Blue UAS Revamp, HPM
- GOP Lawmakers Knock White House’s Use Of Reconciliation To Reach $1 Trillion Defense Request
- Nuclear Modernization and Space Resilience Top Challenges Lohmeier Says He Plans to Address
- Administration’s ‘Skinny Budget’ Request For DHS Relies On Reconciliation For Boost
- Navy Performs First Hypersonic Test Using Future Sea-Based Launch Systems
- V-22 Official Expects Normal Ospreys Ops Return By End Of 2026 After Fixes
- Army Cancels Procurement Of M10 Booker Combat Vehicle
- Air Force Taps Ursa Major To Integrate Tactical Flight Demonstrator For Hypersonic Uses
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Friday, May 2, 2025
- Hegseth Directs Army Scrap ‘Outdated’ Systems, Cuts Include JLTVs, AH-64Ds, Gray Eagles
- New Memo Orders Army To Merge Futures Command And TRADOC, Pursue Acquisition Reforms
- HII’s Earnings, Sales Dip In First Quarter; Cites CVN-30 Supply Chain Hiccup
- Beale AFB to Be Deployment Center for CCA, As USAF Begins Ground Tests
- DIU To Issue Solicitation For Low-Collateral Effects Counter-Drone Solutions
- Some Democratic Lawmakers Ask for DoD IG Review of Golden Dome
- AeroVironment Completes BlueHalo Acquisition; Creates Two Operating Segments
- Navy Awards Billions GD And HII Billions To Finish Last Two Block V Virginia-Class SSNs and Shipyard Support
- Leonardo DRS Opens 2025 With Strong Results
- Coast Guard Approved For Full Production Of First Polar Security Cutter
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Thursday, May 1, 2025
- Marines To Outfit First Platoon With New MRIC Cruise Missile Defeat System By End Of FY ‘25
- Marine Corps Outlines LSM Future: First Within Five Years, Sharing Second Test Ship With Australia, Hybrid Crewing T-EPFs
- True Anomaly Raises $260 Million To Support Growth
- Airbus, Shield AI Partner On Unmanned Lakota For Marines’ Aerial Logistics Connector
- House Transportation Panel Approves $22 Billion In New Coast Guard Funds
- Fourth Plane for USAF SAOC Program Arrives at SNC’s Dayton Site
- Operational Assessment Testing of IVEWS on F-16 Completed, Northrop Grumman Says
- VTG Acquires Cyber And Signals Intelligence Firm Triaplex
- State Approves Software Deal To India, Patriot Upgrades to Kuwait
- Govini Tapped For Navy Nuclear Submarine Industrial Base Software
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Wednesday, April 30, 2025
- Trump Announces 21 F-15EXs to Replace A-10s at Selfridge
- $2 Billion for Space-Based AMTI Proposed in DoD Reconciliation Bill
- Anduril Adds To Pulsar EW Family With Lightweight System That Counters Drone Swarms
- Satellite Manufacturer Apex Raises $200 Million To Pursue Vertical Integration, Build Inventory
- HASC Advances $150 Billion Defense Boost Bill, As Top Dem Objects
- DoD Industrial Base Nominee Would Prioritize Munitions Production
- House T&I Committee Proposes $15 Billion For Coast Guard Shipbuilding
- Epirus Delivers Prototype Counter-Swarm Energy Weapon To Navy
- State Approves $1.3 Billion AMRAAM Deal To Poland
- Marines Places First Production Orders For BAE’s Turreted ACV, ‘No Plans’ For New Variants
- Amazon Project Kuiper Deployment Begins With First ULA Launch
- Ability To Detect And Track Drones At Domestic Bases Varied And Insufficient, DoD Official Says
- Gray Eagle Became MGUE Aviation Lead Platform Due to Development Challenges with B-2
- Firefly Mission Loses Lockheed Martin LM 400 Satellite in Anomaly
- State Approves $280 Million Patriot Deal To Romania
- Garamendi Amendment To Delay Sentinel Fails
- Phelan Pitches Dual-Use Shipbuilding And Investment in U.S. Shipbuilding During Japan Visit
- Slingshot Aerospace Offering Sovereign Space Domain Awareness Capabilities To Nations
- NNSA No. 2 Nom Questioned on Workforce Needs
- Radian Aerospace Introduces Reusable Space Platform For Hypersonic Testing, Orbital Use
- SLCM-N Draft Request for Solutions Released By Government
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Defense Daily, Tuesday, April 29, 2025, Vol. 306, Issue 20
// PDF View- GOP’s $150 Billion Defense Bill For Reconciliation Funds Golden Dome, ‘Historic’ Tech Investments
- Lawmakers Recommend $33.7 Billion For Shipbuilding, Naval Industrial Base Boost In Reconciliation Bill
- USAF Aircraft Production Accelerations in Bill for DoD Include $4.5 Billion for B-21 and $400 Million for F-47
- House Panel Recommends $67 Billion In Reconciliation For DHS; Mostly For Border Wall
- Congress Defense Reconciliation Includes $1.5 billion for Sentinel Risk Reduction
- CBO Report Looks At Escalating Costs of U.S. Nuclear Forces
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Defense Daily, Monday, April 28, Vol. 306, Issue 19
// PDF View- Defense Watch: GD Sub Money, Hyundai at HII, Finnish Icebreakers, DoD Tech At Border, Irish Javelins
- Official: Army’s TiC Is Opportunity To Get AI To ‘Tactical Edge,’ Predictive Analysis Is ‘Next Horizon’
- Eyes on DMSP Replacement, As First WSF-M Reaches IOC
- CSIS Suggests Deterrence Value of Disclosing More U.S. Counterspace Systems
- Lockheed, Northrop, Peraton Nab Space Systems Command Relay Ground Station Awards
- SECNAV Announces Nearly $300 Million In IT And Other DOGE Cuts
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Friday, April 25, 2025
- USAF Air Superiority Concept ‘Evolving,’ As FY 2026 Budget to Show Whether Service Had to Make Trade-Offs to Afford F-47
- Oshkosh Defense To Deliver JLTV Variant To Netherlands
- Earnings Up, Sales Dip At L3Harris In First Quarter
- Army Looks To Boost GMLRS Production To 19,000 Rockets A Year Starting In FY ‘28
- SAIC Nabs Potential $55 Million SDA Award To Be Tranche 3 Integrator
- Lockheed Martin to Receive Sustainment Contract for FPS-117 Radars
- CG-71 Returns To San Diego After Vigor Modernization
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Defense Daily, Thursday, April 24, 2025, Vol. 306, Issue 18
// PDF View- Boeing’s Losses Narrow In First Quarter Amid Strong Sales; No ‘Undue Risk’ In F-47 Contract
- GD Opens 2025 With Strong Results Led By Aerospace
- Allvin: ‘If We Don’t Watch It, We’re Gonna Have to Be Fightin’ From Topeka’
- Lockheed Martin Acquiring Amentum’s Rapid Solutions Business For $360 Million
- Saronic Adds Mirage And Cipher To Small Autonomous Surface Vessel Offerings
- No. 2 Senate Democrat, Senior Defense Appropriator Durbin Won’t Seek Reelection
- Mingus: Army Aims To Scale NGC2 Across The Force In ‘Very Short Period Of Time’
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Wednesday, April 23, 2025
- Army Vice Chief Eyes Flexible Funding For Any Tech Improving Faster Than Budget Cycle
- Boeing Selling Some Of Its Digital Aviation Solutions Business For $11 Billion
- Northrop Takes $397 Million B-21 Charge To Accelerate Production Rates, Prep For Program Increase
- USAF Eyes Sustainment Contract for BACN Aircraft
- Earnings Dip Despite Higher Sales At RTX On Divestiture; Sees Potential $850 Million Hit From Tariffs
- Lockheed Martin Has Received Contracts for 19 TPY-4 Radars for USAF So Far
- Lockheed Martin Nabs $180 Million To Convert Three F-35s To Test Variant
- Army, GD OTS Open New 155mm Ammo Final Assembly Facility
- Lockheed Will Leverage NGAD Investment For F-35+ To Approach 6th Gen Aircraft At Half Cost
- IAEA Head Says U.S.-Iran Nuclear Talks ‘Fraught With Opportunity,’ IAEA Involved ‘Sooner or Later’
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Tuesday, April 22, 2025
- Army Approves Transitioning RTX’s LTAMDS Radar Into Production
- Navy To Award Bollinger First LSM Amphib Hull Based On Israeli Ship
- Electra Raises $115 Million To Move Ultra Short Aircraft Closer To Production
- NRO Launches 10th Proliferated Architecture Mission
- NRC Commissioner Says Doesn’t Know the Future of NRC Under Trump, ‘Does Anybody?’