Defense Daily Archive
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Tuesday, September 8, 2026
- Defense Watch: Polish Aerostats, Honeywell False Claims Act, Drone JV, Lockheed Martin Training Round
- U.S. OKs Nearly $7 Billion In FMS With Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Including Large JDAM-ER Deal With Riyadh
- DoD Begins Falcon Peak Counter-Drone Experiment With Focus On Southern Border
- Navy Demonstrated More Unmanned Refueling At Sea
- L3Harris Announces Production Completion of First 35 Viper Shields
- Trump Picks Army Civil Works Chief Adam Telle As Service’s Acting Secretary
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Friday, September 4, 2026
- Meink Directs MMA Acceleration, USAF Eyes $10 Million Unit Cost for Air Vehicle, $20 Million for CCA Air Vehicle
- Hermeus Selects Anduril’s Mission Autonomy Platform For Unmanned Supersonic Aircraft
- Anduril Pitches Lattice For Port Defense, Demonstrates Sea Integration At BlueTide
- U.S. Space Force SSC To Solicit For New Launch Companies Next Month
- Northrop Grumman Details Demos With IBCS-Enabled ISV, Work With Starlink Connectivity
- Software And Robotics Company XTEND Set For Public Debut Following Reverse Merger
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Thursday, September 3, 2026
- Army Exploring New Tracked Howitzer Modernization Effort
- Startup Energetics Manufacturer CMG Raises $10 Million In Seed Round
- Heven AeroTech Opens New Drone Manufacturing Facility In Virginia
- MH-139A Attains IOC, USAF Says, As House Looks for MH-139/HH-60W Comparison for Military District of Washington
- Army Awards AV ‘First-Ever’ DE Production Contract For Enduring High Energy Laser
- Trump Nominates Cao As Full SecNav
- Space Force Raises Ceiling Value Of HADES Contract To $389 Million
- Navy Reveals CCA Design Details in New RFI Prototype Project
- American Rheinmetall, GD Deliver Initial XM30 Prototypes To Army
- GE Aerospace Continues XA102 Work, Looks for Future USAF Timeline Guidance
- Interview with Anduril’s James Buescher on Production Of Autonomous Undersea Vehicles
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Wednesday, September 2, 2026
- Army Faces Top Leadership Void Following Secretary Dan Driscoll’s Planned Exit This Week
- GE Aerospace Anticipates Full Qualification of T901 By End of Next Year
- DoD Announces $264 Million In Industrial Base Support, Including Aussie Gallium Deal
- GE Aerospace Plans to Flight Test HyCAT Hypersonic Test Bed in 2028
- House Sends Dec. 11 CR With Ship Construction Funds To Trump’s Desk For Final Signature
- Sub Maintenance Delays Have Cost $3.4 Billion, Decommissioning Delays May Match It
- DARPA Plans Another Heavy Lift Challenge With Added Difficulty
- Army Awards $192 Million To Palantir, Anduril To Move TITAN Program Into Production
- Harpoon Coastal Defense System Passes Navy Developmental Test
- Army Picks Georgia Tech As Lead Weapons Integrator For CAML Prototyping Effort
- Interview with Rolls-Royce’s F130 Program Director, Gregg Pyers on the B-52’s New Engine
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Tuesday, September 1, 2026
- GD Signs Framework Deals With Pentagon To Boost PAC-3 MSE, THAAD Component Production
- Anduril Ramping Up Undersea Drone Production Line Through 2027; Aims To Ready Extra Large Production Line By End of Year
- Yearly Production Capacity Of More Than 100 AE 1107F Engines For MV-75, Rolls-Royce Says
- Lockheed, RTX Plan Javelin Co-Production Effort In India With Tata Advanced Systems
- Drone Company Easy Aerial Raises $20 Million To Scale Production, Global Business
- SAIC’s Earnings Dip In Second Quarter On Higher Taxes
- Interview with Rolls-Royce’s AE 1107 Program Director, Scott Ames provides updates on the development of the AE 1107
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Monday, August 31, 2026
- Defense Watch: NGI Concerns, Valkyrie CCA, ESB-8 Delivery, Counter-Drone Partners
- Rolls-Royce Plans To Deliver 20 F130 Flight Test Engines For B-52 CERP Starting Next Spring
- Firehawk Live Fires Hydra-70 Rockets Shortly After Army Award
- DoD Adds To Equity Stake In Alumina Refiner, Makes Equity Investment In Metals Company
- REGENT Raises $240 Million To Transition Seagliders To Manufacturing
- Trump Directs Establishment Of United States Space Academy
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Friday, August 28, 2026
- AV Nabs $51 Million Switchblade 600 Order With Deliveries To U.S. Army, FMS Customer
- L3Harris Adding Shield AI’s Computer Vision Tech To Strengthen VAMPIRE C-UAS Platform
- Small Drones Improve Border Patrol’s Operations But Limitations Exist, DHS IG Says
- Q-CTRL Demonstrates GPS-Free Navigation At Sea
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Thursday, August 27, 2026
- Marines Plan OPF-L, Organic C-sUAS Fielding Soon Amid Ground Combat Element 2040 Push
- Castelion Nabs Another $90 Million Navy Order To Fund First 50 Blackbeard Weapons
- Raytheon Awarded $603 Million For New Radar For B-52
- Army Chooses Five Companies To Build Janus Reactors At Military Sites
- Smaller Space Companies Want To See Programs Of Record For Their Investments
- Navy Seeks Prototypes For New Air-Launched Torpedo
- Counter-Drone Startup Mara Raises $7 Million To Advance Spike, An Integrated System
- Marine Corps Warfighting Lab Accepts First Aussie-Designed Prototype Surface Craft
- LeoLabs To Provide Space Force With Surveillance Radar
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Wednesday, August 26, 2026
- Ursa Major Going Public To Scale Hypersonic Weapon, Rocket Motors And Engines
- Oshkosh Invests $50 Million-Plus To Support Potential JLTV ‘Bridge’ Production For Marines
- MDA Looking To “Dramatically” Lower Costs Of Missile Defense Kill Vehicles
- SDA Director Says Constellation’s Tranche 1 Checkouts Progressing Faster After Slow Start
- Auriga Fires Containerized Electromagnetic Launcher In First Field Test
- Air Force Mulls Draft Solicitation On Future Air Operations Center Weapon System
- SecNav Creates New Defense Industrial Base Office
- White House Links Nuclear Energy To National Security And Deterrence
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Tuesday, August 25, 2026
- Navy Unveils New AIM-424 Long-Range Air-To-Air Missile
- Army Eyes Deal To Boost GMLRS Production To 19,000 Rockets Annually Between FY ‘28-’34
- Collins Aerospace Says Company Completed Altitude Testing of EPACS
- Army Begins Assessing Counter-Drone Technology To Aid Countermine Efforts
- Defense Department Invests $750 Million To Help Secure Access To Rare Earth Materials
- Union Ratifies New Five-Year Agreement With GD Bath Iron Works
- Interview with Col. Burges and Col. Monaghan on Recent Army Sandhills Autonomous Mine Clearing Family of Systems Demo