Defense Daily Archive
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Monday, September 28, 2026
- Defense Watch: Munitions Shortages, IVEWS LRIP, Satellite Infrastructure
- Upcoming High-Energy Laser Counter-Drone Shoot Off Has $200 Million At Stake
- Navy Establishes New Robotic And Autonomous Warfighting Development Center
- Northrop Grumman Receives Long-Lead Funding for 67 APG-85 Radars for F-35s
- Navy Previews MUSV Phase II Project
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Friday, September 25, 2026
- DIU Seeks Commercial Tech, Private Capital For Counter-UxS In Maritime Environment
- Baseline Designs for L3Harris’ Tranche 3 Missile Tracking Satellites Okayed
- U.S. and UK Test Fire Torpedo From UUV
- Software-Defined GPS Receiver Developer Locus Lock In Strategic Funding Round
- USAF Seeking Industry Input on Replacement of ARSR-4 Radar
- Pentagon Shows Off New Nuclear Projects at Energy Expo
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Thursday, September 24, 2026
- DoD Plans Counter-Drone Laser Shoot Off In December
- Lockheed Martin Vectis To Have ‘Almost F-35 Like Capabilities’
- Army Taps Vulcan Elements For Rare Earth Magnets To Support UAS Component Production
- GD Nabs $49.3 Million Deal For More Stryker DVHA1s, Army Plans Future Order For 20 More
- Greenland Agreement Allows For Golden Dome System
- Impulse Space Nabs $28 Million Award For Domain Awareness Mission
- Navy Set To Issue SIOP Dry Dock Awards This Month
- Navy Tests CCA Mission Planning With MQ-20
- Northrop Grumman Lands $508 Million Missile Defense Support Contract
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Wednesday, September 23, 2026
- Pentagon Program Selects 17 Companies To Compete In Drone Bomber Qualifier
- BAE Nabs $818 Million Order For More AMPVs, Details Army Unit’s Work With AMPV 30 Prototypes
- Army Conducts Test To Advance Work On New Pod For Rapid Launch Of Low-Cost Rockets
- Pentagon Nuclear Review Draws Scrutiny Over Expanded Options
- Honeywell Proposes ‘P40’ Upgrade for F-35’s PTMS
- U.K. Defense Firm OpenWorks Expands Into U.S. Market
- Who’s USAF Gonna Call? One Top Candidate Is Dronebusters
- Contract Advances B-21 Weapons Storage Infrastructure at Whiteman Air Force Base
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Tuesday, September 22, 2026
- Hanwha Ups Munitions Investment At Pine Bluff To $2.2 Billion
- Department of the Air Force Focused on Mission Systems for Future Tanker to Succeed KC-46 and KC-135
- General Atomics Delivers FQ-42 CCA To Creech AFB For Flight Testing
- Space Force Looking to Future for RPO-Docking to Counter Space Threats
- Northrop Expands B-21 Production Capacity With New Utah Facility
- JRC Integrated Systems wins contract mod for SLCM-N, NC3
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Monday, September 21, 2026
- True Anomaly and Northrop Grumman Aiming to Build GHOST-R Prototypes to Reduce RG-XX Costs
- Defense Watch: X-Bat Collab in Poland, German F-35, DAF Battle Network
- U.S. Space Force Pins Hopes on Space-Based Radar Systems, Northrop Grumman Building GMTI System
- Drone Mothership Developer Modalic Gives Peek At First Production Aircraft
- Lockheed Martin Gets GM Defense-Made PAC-3 MSE Components Under One Month From Order
- State Department Approves More Than $24 Billion Sale of 48 F-35As to Saudi Arabia
- Navy Seeks New Affordable Interceptor In Request For White Papers
- Scarlet Dragon 26.3: Interview With Col. Paul Staeheli, G3, XVIII Airborne Corps, and Col. Tom Monaghan, Director, Joint Innovation Outpost
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Friday, September 18, 2026
- Army Corps Assessing Sensors, Software, C2 For C-UAS In Latest Scarlet Dragon Innovation Event
- Pentagon and Lockheed Martin Enter Agreement to Accelerate JATM Production
- EnduroSat and CACI to Build Vantor’s Pulse Smallsat Fleet
- L3Harris Starts Production On Tranche 3 Satellites, Expects All Deliveries By Early 2029
- Space Force’s SSC Wants Industry Input on High TRL RF Cross Links for SG-XX
- Edge Cybersecurity Firm TigerByte Cyber Exits Stealth With $10 Million
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Thursday, September 17, 2026
- Rep. Bacon Broaches APG-83 Radar for Ukrainian F-16s
- L3Harris Chose To Not Be An SBI Prime, Instead Focusing As Propulsion Supplier
- Perennial Autonomy, Neros Take Top Spots In Drone Dominance Gauntlet II Competitions
- CBO Estimates Loss of One-Half to Two-Thirds of U.S. Missile Interceptors Since June Last Year
- General Dynamics Gets $194 Million Contract for SLCM-N Fire Control Work
- Europe Needs To Embrace Risk To Bolster Space Capabilities, Officials Say
- No USAF Pursuit of NGAS, As Service Examines Future Self-Protection for Tankers
- Navy Picks Three New Yards To Build More LCU-1700 Landing Vessels
- Sovereign EO Space Capabilities Are Ready to Go to the Next Level, Company Officials Say
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Wednesday, September 16, 2026
- Two AGM-190As Fired Recently in AFRICOM, LRIP for 45 Underway
- Castelion Gets First Production Lot Order For Blackbeard
- DAF Space Acquisition Chief Looking to Draw Lessons From Munitions MYPs for Launch
- Design for Ground Support of Sentinel ‘Has Really Turned the Corner’
- Second Tranche 1 Data Layer Satellite Launch Weeks Away; Full Tranche 1 Constellation Up In 2027
- At Outset Of Epic Fury, Space Force Used Electronic Weapon System To Target Adversary
- DoD Counter-Drone Task Force Director Sees $30 Billion Annual Market By 2030
- White House Sends New Top Navy Civilian Nominees To The Senate
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Tuesday, September 15, 2026
- Meink: U.S. Has Orbital Space Weapons, SB-AMTI To Launch This Month, 500 CCAs by 2032
- Skunk Works Plans First Flight of Vectis Prototype By End of Next Year
- Swarm Aero Tosses Hat In The Ring For Massed Modular Aircraft
- DoD Makes $450 Million Equity Investment In Domestic Tungsten Supplier The Elmet Group
- USAF, Northrop Detail Sentinel ICBM ‘Vertical Stacking’ Demo, On Track For Flight Tests In 2027
- USAF Discussing CCA, Increment 2 Attributes
- Navy Awards Boeing First MQ-25 Production Contract
- Fischer Says Golden Dome Boosters Need To Increase Capitol Hill Support With Information, Warns Against Counting On Reconciliation
- F-35s Operating In Middle East Maintaining High Mission Capable Rates, ACC Official Says
- Interview with Air Force Lt. Col. Jared “CLiF” Bindl, Chief Innovation Officer, U.S. Africa Command to Discuss AMTEC