Defense Daily Archive
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Defense Daily, Wednesday, February 26, 2020, Vol. 285, Issue 37
// PDF View- EUCOM Requests Two More Destroyers, Commander Says Rota is Ready to Receive
- TRANSCOM Leader Urges Congress to Fund Aging Air Force Tankers ID’ed for Retirement in 2021
- Army Releases New List Of Characteristics For Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle
- Proposed Cut To CISA’s Cyber Budget Due In Part To 2021 Being Election Off-Year, Wolf Says
- CBP To Significantly Expand Cargo, Vehicle Screening On Southwest Border, DHS Chief Says
- Attitude and Heading Reference System for T-38As, AT-38Bs Needs Replacement, Air Force Says
- Drive to Replace Capacitors for Refurbished Nukes Causing Delays for ICBM Fuze Modernization
- Bechtel, Kratos, Get Spots on Northrop Grumman’s GBSD Team
- Army Has Restarted Robotic Mule Competition, New Contract Award Set For April
- Reactor Builder Says Only One Virginia Sub In FY ’21 Could Hit Bottom Line
- Air Force Launches Prototype Test-Flight Campaign for Transformative Vertical Flight
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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
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Tuesday, February 18, 2020
- Defense Watch: GAO Protest, Air Force Leadership Moves
- McCarthy: Divestitures From Legacy Systems To Increase In Coming Years, Eyeing FY ‘22 For Major Decisions
- SASC Members Push for More Defensive Hypersonic Development Funds in FY ’21 Budget
- Navy Lays Out New LUSV Strategy Timeline, First Vessel Pushed To 2026
- Navy and Northrop Grumman To Study Integrating Weapons On MQ-8C
- Pentagon Wants To Ramp Up Investment in 5G
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Friday, February 14, 2020
- Pentagon Offers $3.8 Billion for Border Wall Request from FY ’20 Equipment Funds
- Army Details 20 Programs Cut, Reduced Or Delayed In FY ’21 Budget Request
- Pentagon and Military Service Budget Requests for AI May See Avionics Applications
- New Date Set for Final Advanced EHF Satellite Launch from Cape
- Lawmakers Slam Pentagon Request to Divert Military Equipment Funds to Border Wall
- Navy Request Outlines SSN(X) Next Sub Development
- Navy Ends Super Hornet Production After 2021, Redirects To Next Gen Fighter
- Planned W93 Warhead Will Contribute to new U.K. Nuke, DOD Officials Say
- Pentagon, Microsoft Ordered To Pause Work On JEDI Cloud While Court Considers Amazon’s Protest
- Petters Touts HII’s Position In Emerging Unmanned Space; Strong Growth Forecast
- Huntington Ingalls’ Sales Up, Profits Down In Fourth Quarter; Will Divest Oil And Gas Business
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Thursday, February 13, 2020
- Lawmakers Say Navy Budget Requests Too Few Ships and Subs
- HASC Minority Leader Concerned Over Reduced Basic Research Funds in FY ’21 Request
- Cyber Funding Nearly Flat In Pentagon’s $9.8 Billion Request
- Ship Repair Company Titan Acquisition Acquires Huntington Ingalls’ San Diego Yard
- Critical Design Review Complete for New ‘Fully Digital’ GPS Payload
- Army’s Rapid Technologies Office Holding Second Pitch Event This Week
- Delayed Poland Aegis Ashore Site Needs Two More Years
- Savannah River Pit Plant Design to be Finished by End of June
- MDA Cuts Pacific Radar Sensor, Starting INDOPACOM Sensor Study
- House Panel Advances Cyber, Border Security, DHS Acquisition Bills
- Federal Technology Services Provider Applied Insight Acquires DAE
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Wednesday, February 12, 2020
- Air Force Advanced Battle Management System FYDP Projection Jumps from Millions to Billions
- Army’s $13.5 Billion ‘Night Court’ Savings In Budget Request Includes Adjustments To JLTV, AMPV
- MDA Rolls Out Interceptor Schedule, Lessons Learned From RKV Failure
- Proposed W93 Warhead Would Be Rapidly Upgradable, Serviceable by Navy
- After Slips, First Versions of Refurbed Nukes Coming in 2022, 2021
- House Passes Bills For Drone And Port Security
- After Leidos Win On NGEN, Initial Focus Is On Transition
- Navy Pushes Back Frigate Schedule To Avoid LCS Issues
- Lockheed Martin Delivers Third GPS III Satellite to Space Force Ahead of April Launch
- NASA Aeronautics Budget Sees 4.5 Percent Boost, Funding Aircraft Electrification Research
- LANL, LLNL Directors Won’t Say Who’d Own W93 Sea-Based Warhead; Hint at Competition
- Boeing Super Hornets Receiving Block III Upgrades