Defense Daily Archive
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Friday, May 9, 2025
- Lawmakers Press Army Under Secretary Nom Obadal On Retaining His Equity In Anduril
- Kratos Introduces Landing Gear Variant Of Valkyrie Tactical Drone
- Ursa Major Validates Rocket Motor Manufacturing Process With Denser Propellant Arrangement
- CACI, General Atomics, Viasat Move On In Space Laser Communication Effort
- Rheinmetall and ICEYE to Create Satellite Production Joint Venture in Germany
- Army Ends ITEP, FTUAS, RCV Development, HAC-D Seeks Details On Planned Cuts
- Battery Manufacturer Lyten Launches Unit Focused On Drones
- Rocket Lab To Conduct Return-To-Earth Cargo Mission For Air Force With Neutron Rocket
- Air Force Secretary to Submit Formal Congressional Notification of Significant Nunn-McCurdy Breach on B-52 RMP Before May 24
- Mid-Band Spectrum Crucial For Golden Dome, Arrington Tells Hill
- Navy Seeks Industry Help For Foreign Partner Long Range UAV
- Amentum Reports Increased Earnings, Cites Nuclear Biz
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Thursday, May 8, 2025
- Army Aims To Speed Up FLRAA To 2028, No Commitment On Another Black Hawk Multi-Year
- B-52 Radar Modernization Program in Significant Nunn-McCurdy Breach
- MDA’s Next-Gen Interceptor And First Hypersonic Defense Systems Already Running Late From Early Downselects
- First Production Unit of B61-13 Gravity Bomb Could Be Out This Month, NNSA Exec Says
- Coast Guard Interested in High-Power Microwaves To Stop Small Craft, Drones
- No Decision Made Yet on Reusing Minuteman Siloes for Sentinel, Commander Says
- USAF ‘Driving Toward’ 465 Tankers, As Service Accounts for 18-Month RVS 2.0 Delay for KC-46
- Quantum Computing Company IonQ to Acquire Capella Space
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Wednesday, May 7, 2025
- Calvert: ‘We Can’t Afford a Repeat of the F-35 Program’
- MDA Moves To Prioritize Directed Energy Lasers For Missile Shield
- DIU Launches Replicator Effort To Evaluate, Quickly Scale Low-Collateral C-UAS Solutions
- Bollinger, Edison Chouest Partner To Pursue Coast Guard’s Arctic Security Cutter
- Leidos Posts Strong First Quarter Across Enterprise; Details Growth Strategy
- Space Systems Command Awards SciTech New FORGE Framework Contract
- Space Force Taps 12 Space & Satellite Companies for Latest STP Contract
- BWXT Has Strong Quarter, Sees ‘Robust’ Opportunities From Oak Ridge Land Purchase
- Australian PM Says ‘Warm’ Phone Call With Trump Included AUKUS, Tariffs
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Tuesday, May 6, 2025
- HASC’s Top Dem Calls Army’s New Transformation Plan With Program Cuts ‘A Positive Step’
- DoD Initiates 90-Day Sprint For New Plan To ‘Fast Track’ Software Acquisition
- Anduril Acquires Tactical Computing Firm Klas, Details New Menace-T Rugged C4 System
- Machinists On Strike At Pratt & Whitney In Connecticut
- Navy Establishes USV Squadron 7 For Small Vessels
- NATO Seeks Solutions To Counter Fiber Optic-Controlled FPV Drones
- DoD Flies Hypersonic Test Vehicle Again, Demonstrating Reusability
- USAF Awards ALQ-172 Field Engineering Services’ Follow-On to L3Harris for B-52s
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Monday, May 5, 2025
- Defense Watch: ALPV Update, Russian EW, Sentinel, Blue UAS Revamp, HPM
- GOP Lawmakers Knock White House’s Use Of Reconciliation To Reach $1 Trillion Defense Request
- Nuclear Modernization and Space Resilience Top Challenges Lohmeier Says He Plans to Address
- Administration’s ‘Skinny Budget’ Request For DHS Relies On Reconciliation For Boost
- Navy Performs First Hypersonic Test Using Future Sea-Based Launch Systems
- V-22 Official Expects Normal Ospreys Ops Return By End Of 2026 After Fixes
- Army Cancels Procurement Of M10 Booker Combat Vehicle
- Air Force Taps Ursa Major To Integrate Tactical Flight Demonstrator For Hypersonic Uses
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Friday, May 2, 2025
- Hegseth Directs Army Scrap ‘Outdated’ Systems, Cuts Include JLTVs, AH-64Ds, Gray Eagles
- New Memo Orders Army To Merge Futures Command And TRADOC, Pursue Acquisition Reforms
- HII’s Earnings, Sales Dip In First Quarter; Cites CVN-30 Supply Chain Hiccup
- Beale AFB to Be Deployment Center for CCA, As USAF Begins Ground Tests
- DIU To Issue Solicitation For Low-Collateral Effects Counter-Drone Solutions
- Some Democratic Lawmakers Ask for DoD IG Review of Golden Dome
- AeroVironment Completes BlueHalo Acquisition; Creates Two Operating Segments
- Navy Awards Billions GD And HII Billions To Finish Last Two Block V Virginia-Class SSNs and Shipyard Support
- Leonardo DRS Opens 2025 With Strong Results
- Coast Guard Approved For Full Production Of First Polar Security Cutter
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Thursday, May 1, 2025
- Marines To Outfit First Platoon With New MRIC Cruise Missile Defeat System By End Of FY ‘25
- Marine Corps Outlines LSM Future: First Within Five Years, Sharing Second Test Ship With Australia, Hybrid Crewing T-EPFs
- True Anomaly Raises $260 Million To Support Growth
- Airbus, Shield AI Partner On Unmanned Lakota For Marines’ Aerial Logistics Connector
- House Transportation Panel Approves $22 Billion In New Coast Guard Funds
- Fourth Plane for USAF SAOC Program Arrives at SNC’s Dayton Site
- Operational Assessment Testing of IVEWS on F-16 Completed, Northrop Grumman Says
- VTG Acquires Cyber And Signals Intelligence Firm Triaplex
- State Approves Software Deal To India, Patriot Upgrades to Kuwait
- Govini Tapped For Navy Nuclear Submarine Industrial Base Software
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Wednesday, April 30, 2025
- Trump Announces 21 F-15EXs to Replace A-10s at Selfridge
- $2 Billion for Space-Based AMTI Proposed in DoD Reconciliation Bill
- Anduril Adds To Pulsar EW Family With Lightweight System That Counters Drone Swarms
- Satellite Manufacturer Apex Raises $200 Million To Pursue Vertical Integration, Build Inventory
- HASC Advances $150 Billion Defense Boost Bill, As Top Dem Objects
- DoD Industrial Base Nominee Would Prioritize Munitions Production
- House T&I Committee Proposes $15 Billion For Coast Guard Shipbuilding
- Epirus Delivers Prototype Counter-Swarm Energy Weapon To Navy
- State Approves $1.3 Billion AMRAAM Deal To Poland
- Marines Places First Production Orders For BAE’s Turreted ACV, ‘No Plans’ For New Variants
- Amazon Project Kuiper Deployment Begins With First ULA Launch
- Ability To Detect And Track Drones At Domestic Bases Varied And Insufficient, DoD Official Says
- Gray Eagle Became MGUE Aviation Lead Platform Due to Development Challenges with B-2
- Firefly Mission Loses Lockheed Martin LM 400 Satellite in Anomaly
- State Approves $280 Million Patriot Deal To Romania
- Garamendi Amendment To Delay Sentinel Fails
- Phelan Pitches Dual-Use Shipbuilding And Investment in U.S. Shipbuilding During Japan Visit
- Slingshot Aerospace Offering Sovereign Space Domain Awareness Capabilities To Nations
- NNSA No. 2 Nom Questioned on Workforce Needs
- Radian Aerospace Introduces Reusable Space Platform For Hypersonic Testing, Orbital Use
- SLCM-N Draft Request for Solutions Released By Government
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Friday, April 25, 2025
- USAF Air Superiority Concept ‘Evolving,’ As FY 2026 Budget to Show Whether Service Had to Make Trade-Offs to Afford F-47
- Oshkosh Defense To Deliver JLTV Variant To Netherlands
- Earnings Up, Sales Dip At L3Harris In First Quarter
- Army Looks To Boost GMLRS Production To 19,000 Rockets A Year Starting In FY ‘28
- SAIC Nabs Potential $55 Million SDA Award To Be Tranche 3 Integrator
- Lockheed Martin to Receive Sustainment Contract for FPS-117 Radars
- CG-71 Returns To San Diego After Vigor Modernization
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Wednesday, April 23, 2025
- Army Vice Chief Eyes Flexible Funding For Any Tech Improving Faster Than Budget Cycle
- Boeing Selling Some Of Its Digital Aviation Solutions Business For $11 Billion
- Northrop Takes $397 Million B-21 Charge To Accelerate Production Rates, Prep For Program Increase
- USAF Eyes Sustainment Contract for BACN Aircraft
- Earnings Dip Despite Higher Sales At RTX On Divestiture; Sees Potential $850 Million Hit From Tariffs
- Lockheed Martin Has Received Contracts for 19 TPY-4 Radars for USAF So Far
- Lockheed Martin Nabs $180 Million To Convert Three F-35s To Test Variant
- Army, GD OTS Open New 155mm Ammo Final Assembly Facility
- Lockheed Will Leverage NGAD Investment For F-35+ To Approach 6th Gen Aircraft At Half Cost
- IAEA Head Says U.S.-Iran Nuclear Talks ‘Fraught With Opportunity,’ IAEA Involved ‘Sooner or Later’