Defense Daily Archive
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Tuesday, January 20, 2026
- Defense Watch: SHIELD Grows, Navy CCA Demo, Lunday Sworn In, York Sets Price
- FF(X) Frigate Restricts Engineering To Single Digit Changes Over NSC, Containerize Extra Systems
- Mistral, UVision To Provide HERO 90 Loitering Munition For Army’s LASSO Effort
- Navy Should Consolidate Command-And-Control Platforms For Unmanned Vessels, Official Says
- Coast Guard Establishes Rapid Prototyping Office
- Estonian Conference This Month May Dovetail With Pentagon Swarm Forge Effort
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Friday, January 16, 2026
- Head Of U.S. Fleet Forces Command Outlines Navy Need For Larger Missile Stable
- Battleship Solves The Weapons Choice DDG(X) Faced, Navy Official Says
- Anduril To Deliver More Than 600 Bolt-Ms For Marines’ OPF-L Loitering Munition Program
- USAF To Pursue Degraded Visual Environment System For HH-60W Without Helmet Mounted Display
- U.S. OKs Potential $1.5 Billion Deal With Peru For Naval Base Work, New FMS With Kuwait, Iraq
- HII Doubles The Size Of UK Unmanned Vehicle Facility
- Parsons Acquires Altamira For $375 Million, Strengthening Defense And Intelligence Work
- Seasats Discloses $24 Million APFIT Award For Lightfish ASVs
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Thursday, January 15, 2026
- “Wartime Footing” Message Not Reaching Some In Industry, Phelan Says
- CNO Supports Battleship Lasers, Foresees Them Reaching One Megawatt-Power Level
- HASC Seapower Chair Backs Battleship Concept, Reiterates Support For Navy’s F/A-XX
- CNO Seeks Defense Spending Over Four Percent Of GDP, Says Adding Nuclear Power To Battleship Would Delay It
- Lead Landing Ship Medium Contract Award Planned For Mid-2026
- DHS Official Sees Path To Boosting Buys Of Coast Guard NSCs, OPCs and Future Arctic Cutter
- Northrop Grumman Says It’s In Tune With Rapid Production Goal In DoD-L3Harris Agreement
- Army’s First HADES ISR Jet Prototype To Begin Flying This Spring, SNC Says
- Lockheed Martin, Saildrone Eye Missile Launch From USV This Summer During RIMPAC
- DIU, DAWG, Navy Launch $100 Million Challenge For Autonomous System Control
- Navy Marks Progress On Flight IIA Destroyer Modernization Effort
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Wednesday, January 14, 2026
- Duffey: “We’re Picking Speed” In $1 Billion Investment In L3Harris SRM Spin-Off
- Hegseth Directs ‘AI-First’ Military Strategy
- Lockheed Conducts Successful First Flight Test Of Stinger Replacement Offering
- DoD Counter-Drone Task Force Makes First Replicator 2 Purchase, Fortem’s DroneHunter
- Zumwalt Installs Of Hypersonic Weapon Tubes On Pace, Testing For IOC Unclear
- Hegseth Puts Chief Technology Officer In Charge Of DoD Innovation Efforts
- Robotics Upswing in Navy Shipbuilding Will Boost Job Numbers, Navy Official Says
- SNC Buys A Fourth Global 6500 Jet To Be First Non-Prototype For Army’s HADES Program
- Venture-Backed Data Management Company Onebrief Closes $200 Million Round; Acquires Battle Road Digital
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Tuesday, January 13, 2026
- Record F-35 Deliveries, PAC-3 Production Framework Show Lockheed Martin Stepping Up, Hegseth Says
- New Two-Bill Spending Deal Has $1 Billion Foreign Military Financing Boost, With Israel, Taiwan Funds
- X-Bow Systems Completes Preliminary Design Review For Standard Missile Motors
- DHS Creates Program Executive Office for Drone and Counter-Drone Systems
- 13th Hawkeye 360 Satellite Trio In Orbit
- Hanwha And HavocAI To Develop 200-Foot Autonomous Ship Aimed At Navy MASC
- Adkins Becomes NRO’s Principal Deputy Director
- DoD Strategic Capital Office Seeks Solutions To Better Engage With Technology Ecosystem
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Friday, January 9, 2026
- Trump Directive Halts Dividends, Stock Repurchases By “Major Defense Contractors”
- Department Of The Air Force Gets In Line With Hegseth Acquisition Reform Plan
- Work To Begin Building First FF(X) Frigate Is ‘Imminent,’ HII CEO Says
- HASC, SASC Chairs Back Trump’s Call For $1.5 Trillion Defense Budget In ‘27
- HII CEO Expects New Details On BBG(X) Battleship’s Design Schedule In Next 30-60 Days
- Lockheed, M1 Also Advance In Army’s Flight School Next Effort, As Lawmakers Seek More Info
- Marine Corps Awards Northrop Grumman MUX TACAIR Contract
- Lockheed Martin Announces “Record Breaking” Delivery Of 191 F-35s In 2025
- Mach Industries Adds Counter Drone System To Product Portfolio
- Karman To Acquire Composites And Material Sciences Companies To Boost Navy Work
- Bipartisan Appropriations Minibus That Includes Energy And Water Passes House
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Thursday, January 8, 2026
- Trump Wants $1.5 Trillion Defense Budget In ‘27, Limits On Contractors’ Stock Buybacks, Exec Pay
- Army Will Soon Ask For Future Self-Propelled Howitzer Proposals, Eyes As M777 Replacement
- Northrop Grumman Says It’s Received Navy Contract for SSRM After Beating Anduril
- Senate Confirms Hegseth’s Top Military Aide LaNeve As Next Army Vice Chief
- Pentagon Inspector General Highlights Continuing F-35 Readiness Concerns
- Vatn Systems Acquires Company With Subsea Acoustic Sensing And Signal Processing Expertise
- Autonomy Software Firm Gambit Exits Stealth With DoD Contracts
- Appropriations Minibus That Includes NNSA Hits House Floor
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Wednesday, January 7, 2026
- Trump Says Defense Firms Must Build Weapons Faster, Arms Sales Take ‘Too Long’
- DoD and Lockheed Martin Sign Framework Agreement To More Than Triple PAC-3 MSE Production
- New PAC-3 Agreement Possible With Guaranteed Cash Flows And Inflation Markers, Officials Say
- Conventional Wisdom On S-300 Effectiveness Called Into Question
- Autonomous Vessel Technology Developer Magnet Defense Acquires Metal Shark
- Space Radar, Satellite Startup Array Labs Raises $20 Million
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Tuesday, January 6, 2026
- Bell Advances To Next Phase Of Army’s Flight School Next Evaluation
- AE Industrial Partners To Acquire 60 Percent Stake In L3Harris’s Rocketdyne Business
- GD and HII To Work On Trump’s New BBG(X) Battleship Design For Six Years, Analysts See $10-15 Billion Cost
- L3Harris Trims Operating Segments In Realignment
- SDA Surveying Industry On Ability To Provide Ground Entry Points For Tranche 3
- Lockheed Conducts Successful Alternative Warhead-Variant Extended Range GMLRS Test
- Advanced Materials Developer Cambium Raises $100 Million; Includes Investment By Lockheed
- Bozeman’s Lattice Materials To Gear Up Germanium Production
- DoD Makes Additional Investments In Solid Rocket Motor Industrial Base
- Still Early Days But DoD Taking Positive Steps To Improve Acquisition, Lynn Says Ahead Of Exit
- State Department Approves Sales Of Three P-8A Poseidon Aircraft To Denmark, Training And Logistics Support To Poland
- Coast Guard Awards $3.3 Billion In Polar Icebreaker Contracts To Bollinger And Rauma
- Boeing Awarded $8.6 Billion Deal To Build Israel’s New F-15IA Fighter Jets
- Tory Bruno Hops From ULA, Skips To Blue Origin
