Defense Daily Archive
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Tuesday, July 8, 2025
Volume 307 // Issue 4- Army Approves Officially Transitioning PrSM Inc. 1 Into Production Phase
- Malave’s Employment With Boeing Comes With Temporary Restrictions
- Marine Corps’ Budget Includes JLTV Procurement Pause In FY ‘26, Cites Delivery Backlog
- Build of RTX FET To Begin In Second Quarter Of FY 2026
- Space Systems Command Gives Nod to Boeing Over Northrop Grumman for Evolved Strategic SATCOM
- House Sends Massive Reconciliation Bill With $150 Billion For Defense To Trump’s Desk
- Lockheed Martin Delivers First SPY-7 Aegis Radar Shipset To Japan
- House Panel Wants Coast Guard To Examine UAS For Its Medium Endurance Cutters
- DoD OIG to Assess Effectiveness of U.S. Space Force Oversight of GPS OCX
- Shipbuilder Fincantieri Appoints New CEO For U.S. Subsidiary
- Moog Acquires Small Company To Complement Components Business
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Monday, July 7, 2025
Volume 307 // Issue 3- Defense Watch: NATO Nuclear Mission, GMTI, AV Raise, UKR Aid Pause
- Mingus: Army To Lead New Joint Interagency Task Force On Drones, C-UAS
- Palantir, BlueForge Alliance Partner To Accelerate Warship Production
- Lockheed Martin Wins Another $2.97 Billion Contract To Upgrade Aegis Over Next Decade
- Ursa Space, NV5 Nab First Luno B Awards By NGA
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Wednesday, July 2, 2025
Volume 307 // Issue 2- Forecast Launch of First Six Epoch 1s Delayed Until Fiscal 2027
- Parker Tapped To Lead Boeing’s Defense Business
- Army Details Progress Bringing Secure M-Code GPS To Commercial Chips
- Shield AI, RTX Partner On Collaborative Autonomy, Sensor Integration
- Army Exploring Hybrid-Electric Aircraft Propulsion Technology With Electra
- Senate Narrowly Passes Reconciliation Bill With $150 Billion For Defense, Sends To House
- Parsons Acquires Defense Technology Company CTI For $89 Million
- Cap on Contractor Indirect Cost Reimbursement to DoD for Commercial Launches Valid Through FY 2026
- SDA Issues Solicitation For Europa Experimentation Effort
- Planet Highlights Defense Momentum With $280 Million German Government Deal
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Tuesday, July 1, 2025
Volume 307 // Issue 1- Army To Prototype Two Autonomous Launcher Concepts For Both Offensive, Defensive Fires
- Grynkewich: Autonomous Drones, Mass ‘Essential to European Security’
- Ex-Lockheed CFO Malave Heads To Boeing For Top Financial Job
- HII Looks To Accelerate Shipbuilding With C3.ai Partnership
- Finnish MoD Looks to Purchase SAR Satellites From Iceye
- Space Force Solicits Industry Ideas On ‘Quick and Efficient’ SBI Deployment
- TransDigm To Acquire Simmonds Business From RTX For $765 Million
- U.S. Warns DIB Companies Of Potential Iranian Cyber Activity
- House Appropriations Panel Seeks To Slash GAO funding
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Monday, June 30, 2025
Volume 306 // Issue 62- Defense Watch: F-47 Choices, B-21 Production, Hyundai Ship Collab, FY ’27 Defense Topline
- Army Acquisition Chief Nom Supports Having ‘Right To Repair’ For All Capabilities
- Army’s ‘Invest To Divest’ Strategy For Transformation Plan Includes $4.9 Billion In FY ‘26 Cuts
- USAF Requests $387 Million for ARRW Production
- Maxar Intelligence Partnered With Satellogic On Luno A Order
- Space Force Awards SpaceX $81 Million Task Order for USSF-178
- DARPA Accelerates Flight-Testing For Unmanned VTOL Aircraft Effort
- F/A-XX and Frigate Future Not Yet Decided In Navy’s FY 2026 Budget Request
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Friday, June 27, 2025
Volume 306 // Issue 61- Army Seeks $2.4 Billion In FY ‘26 To Flexibly Move Around Drones, C-UAS, EW Portfolios
- DoD Cites ‘Flexibility’ In Defending Use Of Reconciliation For Budget, Including Golden Dome, Shipbuilding
- DoD Says Budget Request Includes $13 Billion For Autonomy And Related Systems
- DoD Cites E-7 Wedgetail Unit Cost Increase from $588 Million to $724 Million
- U.S. Space Force Halts Tranche 3 of Transport Layer, Looks Into New Communications Options
- DTRA Scrutinized Fordow for More Than 16 Years Before June 21 B-2 Strikes
- DHS Hosting Industry Tech Challenge For Remote Identity Validation
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Thursday, June 26, 2025
Volume 306 // Issue 60- Updated Defense Reconciliation Bill Adds Industrial Base Support, Reduces Border Support Funds
- SAIC Unseats KBR as Air Force TENCAP HOPE Contractor
- Navy Leaders Tell Lawmakers Columbia Sub About 17 Months Late
- SpaceWERX Announces Winners For Sustained Maneuver Challenge
- Cotton Plugs Bill to Increase COCOM Counter-Drone Authority
- House Appropriators Approve $66 Billion DHS Bill For FY ‘26
- AeroVironment Posts Strong Fourth Quarter, Sees More Of the Same In New Year
- Maxar Releases Geospatial Monitoring Solution For Predictive Intelligence
- $250 Million for Penetrating Munitions in DoD Reconciliation Bill Takes on New Light After Strikes on Iran
- Startup Developing Reusable Satellite Bus Emerges From Stealth
- NATO Releases its First Commercial Space Strategy
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Wednesday, June 25, 2025
Volume 306 // Issue 59- U.S. Needs to Examine First Person View and Kamikaze Drones, Grynkewich Testifies
- Smith: HASC’s Acquisition Reform Bill Aimed At ‘Blowing Up The System,’ Not Making Tweaks
- Navy Using SM-3s At ‘An Alarming Rate,’ Kilby Says
- As Army Plans JLTV Cut, Commandant Says Marines Will ‘Buy Less’ Without Budget Increase
- NGA Awards BlackSky Potential $24 Million Luno A Task Order For AI-Based Analytics
- LRDR Tracks First ICBM Target Flight
- Dragoon Tactical Comms Satellite Successfully Deployed For SDA Demos
- Space RCO Wants Budget Commitment on 12 SCAR Antennas
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Tuesday, June 24, 2025
Volume 306 // Issue 58- NATO Members Set To Agree On New 5% Of GDP Defense Spending Target
- GD Nabs $621 Million Order For SGT Stout Stryker-Mounted SHORAD Platforms
- Senators Introduce Bipartisan Bill To Streamline AUKUS Defense Industrial Base Collaboration
- BAE Signs CRADA With Army DEVCOM To Further Develop M109-52 Howitzer Prototype
- SRC Sees Delivery Moving Forward Of Counter-Drone Equipment To Qatar
- AFRL Wants To Gauge State of Propulsion Innovation
- New Frontier Aerospace Hot Fires 3D-Printed Rocket Engine
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Monday, June 23, 2025
Volume 306 // Issue 57- Defense Watch: Joint Integrated Fires Exercise, Bomber Task Force Model,
- Army Chief Says Organic Industrial Base Could Manufacture Drones And Related Parts
- B-52Hs May Have Role, If Iran Strikes Ordered
- Lead Wing for LRSO is 2nd Bomb Wing
- Saab Taps Anduril To Supply Rocket Motors For Ground-Launched Small Diameter Bomb
- USAF Mechanics Take On Aircraft Born Five Decades Before They Were
- Austal USA Launches First Steel Ship, the Navajo-class T-ATS 11
- Space Force Meadowlands Development in Parallel with Production For L3Harris
- Northrop Grumman Unveils Testbed For Autonomy Software
- EnergySec Grilled on Cutting National Lab Funding, Says ‘Open’ To Expanding
- SASC Member Says B61 Aboard Aircraft Carrier Better Option Than SLCM-N