Defense Daily Archive
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Tuesday, December 17, 2024
- McConnell: $900 Billion Defense Topline ‘Not Nearly Enough,’ Calls For ‘Significant’ Increase
- Democrats Introduce Bill to Spur System Sustainment by Military Services
- Capacity Not An Issue For DRS Land Systems If DoD Needs To Surge Air Defense Needs
- Poland and General Atomics Reach Deal on SkyGuardians
- Boeing Taps Former Terran, Virgin Orbit Executive To Lead Millennium Space Systems
- For Science, Keep It Subcritical, NNSA Defense Programs Head Says
- State Department Approves Sale Of Fire Control Systems For Korean Destroyers
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Monday, December 16, 2024
- Defense Watch: DoD AI Tools, Deportation Cost, Army Network Plan
- Army Details Successful PrSM Limited User Test
- Army, Navy Complete Successful Hypersonic Weapon Test
- Three HASC Republicans To Join House Appropriations Committee
- Rolls-Royce: F130 Engine for B-52 Passes CDR
- Viavi Solutions To Acquire Navigation Solutions Company Inertial Labs
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Friday, December 13, 2024
- Wittman: Pentagon ‘Must Become a Software-Centric Organization’
- DIU’s Kumar: Flexible Funding Should Be ‘Proliferated’ Across DoD To Support Rapid Innovation
- USAF Awards Leidos Up to $987 Million for Taiwanese F-16 Sustainment
- Frigate To Need Distributed Shipbuilding Like Subs, Early In Second Yard Search Says Navy Official
- eVTOL Aircraft Developer Archer Aviation Partners With Anduril On Hybrid Version For Defense
- DHS, FBI Still Can’t Verify Alleged Drone Sightings In New Jersey
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Thursday, December 12, 2024
- House Passes Final $895.2 Billion FY ‘25 NDAA
- CDAO Creates Rapid Capabilities Cell To Speed DoD Adoption Of Leading AI Capabilities
- Department of Air Force Has 20 Percent More Infrastructure Than Needed, Official Says
- Dynetics’ New IFPC Inc. 2 Production Contract Could Cover Up To 317 Launchers
- DIU Solicits For Speedy, Autonomous Counter-Drone Command And Control Capability
- Final Defense Authorization Bill Orders East Coast Missile Defense Site
- Navy Looks To Expand Unmanned ISR Opportunities
- Army Conducts Another Successful Patriot-LTAMDS-IBCS Air And Missile Defense Test
- Next-Gen OPIR GEO Enters System Testing
- DoD Awards First FY ’25 APFIT Funds To Transition Technologies Into Production
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Wednesday, December 11, 2024
- Thune: DOGE Cuts May Be Included In A Second GOP Reconciliation Package
- State And Local Law Enforcers Need Counter-Drone Authorities Given Limited Federal Resources
- Anduril Offers Software Development Kit For Lattice Networking Platform To Boost Interoperability
- Army Materiel Command Leader Fired After Investigation Into Promotion Board Interference
- MDA, Lockheed Martin Successful In First Flight Test Of Guam Defense System
- Manned NGAD Will Be Program to Watch in New Administration
- HASC’s Top Dem To Oppose FY ‘25 NDAA Over Inclusion Of Transgender Care Ban
- Acceleration of Commercial Space for National Security Likely Under Trump
- First Operational ORCA XLUUV To Be Delivered Early 2025
- Zumwalt Back In Water As HII Upgrades To Field Hypersonic Weapons
- Del Toro Optimistic Congress Will Pass Ships For America Act
- L3Harris Announces Completion of PDR for Company’s Tranche 2, Tracking Layer Satellites
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Monday, December 9, 2024
- Defense Watch: Nuclear C3, Anduril and Open AI, Deepfakes, Space Sensor Award
- Australia To Evaluate PrSM, Naval Strike Missile For Long-Range Maritime Strike Capability
- Wittman and Graves Prod FAA to Rectify ‘Extensive Delays’ in Commercial Launch Licensing
- USAF Asks Industry to Update NGAD Proposals, As Service Defers Decision to Next Administration
- CDAO Chief Outlines Needs To Scale Generative AI Use Across DoD Ahead Of Task Force Lima Report
- Navy Picks SNC To Develop More Prototype Logistics Drones
- BAE Signs $2.5 Billion In New CV90 Combat Vehicle Deals With Sweden, Denmark
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Thursday, December 5, 2024
- DOGE’s Ramaswamy: Focus On ‘Right Kind’ Of Defense Spending, Invest More In Drones, Hypersonics
- U.S. Air Force Commander Discusses B-21 Production Options
- HII To Acquire Assets Of Submarine Metal Fabricator To Increase Capacity And Production
- SASC Leaders Urge Navy To Help Push Funds From Large To Medium USVs
- Trump Picks Vance Adviser, Veteran Dan Driscoll For Army Secretary
- Anduril Nabs $100 Million Contract From CDAO to Scale Mesh Network Across Tactical Edge
- Sullivan Outlines Roadmap For Trump, Future Administrations To Continue Strengthening Defense Industrial Base
- Trump NASA Nominee: ‘The Second Space Age Has Only Just Begun’
- Johnson Rejects White House’s Request To Include $24 Billion In Ukraine Aid With CR
- Australia Approves First Businesses To Work In U.S., U.K. Sub Supply Chains
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Wednesday, December 4, 2024
- Army Exploring PrSM Inc. 5 Capable Of Ranges Beyond 1000 km, Potential Hypersonic Speeds
- Navy Awards X-Bow $60 Million To Modernize Energetics Facilities And Increase Capacity
- Army Nearing End Of Future Howitzer ‘Road Show,’ BAE Systems Details ‘Successful’ Demos
- Safran’s New U.S. Subsidiary Initiates Expansion, Modernization Drive
- GAO Says Half of Navy Amphibs In Poor Condition, 31-Ship Floor At Risk
- EPS-R Arctic Communications Payloads Operational, Northrop Grumman Says
- 3rd Marine Littoral Regiment Receives First Ground-Based Anti-Ship Missile System
- Two SASC Democrats Urge Biden Policy Directive Barring Unauthorized Use of Military for Deportations
- SNC Says Its Design for USAF SAOC Moving Forward
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Tuesday, December 3, 2024
- U.S. OKs $725 Million In New Weapons Aid For Ukraine, Includes Anti-Personnel Landmines
- State Department Approves $1 Billion Sale Of MH-60R Equipment To India
- GA-ASI Completes Final Qualification Test For Gray Eagle’s New HFE 2.0 Engine
- Quantum Information Company Received DoD APFIT Award For Precise Timing Technology
- Rheinmetall Vertically Integrated In The U.S. After Completing Acquisition Of Loc Performance
- Lockheed Martin Nabs $479 Million Japan FMS For Aegis Vessel Equipment
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Monday, December 2, 2024
- Defense Watch: Dept. of Space Force, CBP Drone Interest, SDA SBIR Award
- Trump Picks Donor, Financier As Navy Secretary
- Leidos Nabs $4.1 Billion Production Contract For Indirect Fire Capability
- U.S. Air Force Life Cycle Management Center Asks for Input on Support for AC-130J Precision Strike Package
- Future M1E3 Abrams Tanks To Be Army’s First Hybrid-Electric Combat Vehicle, Camarillo Says
- Feds Ask Judge to Vacate Order in Activists’ Nuclear Weapons Lawsuit, Keep Case in District Court
- Editor’s Note