Defense Daily Archive
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Wednesday, September 17, 2025
- State Department Will Review UAS Export Requests As It Does Manned Fighters
- Eastern Shipbuilding Confirms Subcontracting With HII For Destroyer Builds
- ‘Longest Known’ AMRAAM Shot Last Year, Production Increase of Nearly 50 Percent, Raytheon Says
- Ukraine Drone Autonomy Firm Swarmer Raises $15 Million From U.S. Investors
- Peruvian Air Force to Get 14 Block 70 F-16s, Related Equipment for $3.42 Billion
- Cloture Filed on Block of Nuclear Noms, Vote Early as Wednesday
- DIU Seeks Non-Lethal Solutions To Thwart Small Watercraft In Homeland Waters
- Anduril and Impulse Space Plan to Run RPO in Geosynchronous Orbit Next Year
- Navy Continues Push For New Second Landing Craft Builder
- BlackSky Nabs Second Luno A Order From NGA For Change Detection Analytics
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Tuesday, September 16, 2025
- DoD Taps Three Vendors For Funds To Expand Solid Rocket Motor Capacity
- U.S. Space Force Space Systems Command Preparing for MGEO Solicitation
- Navy Industrial Base Program Partners With Nikon On Large Format 3D Printing System
- Marine Corps Explores New Radars For MADIS
- Australia Commits $8 Billion To Shipbuilding And Sustainment Facility Supporting AUKUS
- Kopin Nabs Award To Build Color MicroLED Displays By 2027, As Army Eyes Tech For SBMC
- House Wants Annual USAF Minuteman III Sustainment Plan Until Sentinel Reaches Full Deployment
- Digital Manufacturer Divergent Technologies Raises $290 Million In Funding Round
- Missile, Munition Sales To Belgium, Norway Okayed By State Department
- NATO Adopts Front Door Approach to Engage With Space Startups
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Monday, September 15, 2025
- Defense Watch: Norwegian Deal, Fuchs JAGM, AV in Europe, HADES
- Epirus Details IFPC-HPM’s 100% Success Rate At Recent Demo, Knocked Out Drone Swarm
- Machinists Reject Boeing’s Latest Offer, Continuing Strike
- AFGSC: Stock of Minuteman III Silos Sufficient, As USAF Prepares for Sentinel Transition
- Investors Buoyant As Apex Raises $200 Million To Expand Satellite Bus Production Capacity
- HII Expands Ingalls DDG Outsourcing Partners, Announces Thales And Babcock Work With Remus UUV
- Navy Issues RFP For Next Gen Logistics Ship Designs
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Friday, September 12, 2025
- Joint Chiefs’ Vice Chair Nom Offers Support For Congress’ Acquisition Reform Proposals
- Anduril Wins $1.12 Billion Australia Contract For Ghost Shark USV
- Second B-21 Raider Bomber Arrives at Edwards, As USAF Plans Increase in Flight Tests
- USAF Testing Leidos’ AlphaMosaic AI Battle Management, As Company Looks to 2027 for Fielding
- Redwire Opens New Facility To Support Space-Based Defense
- General Atomics, AeroVironment Demonstrate Loitering Munition Launch From MQ-9 Drone
- Leidos Stays Mum During Navy MASC USV Review, But Combining Sea Hunter And Overlord USVs
- Houses Passes FY ‘26 NDAA With $848 Billion Pentagon Topline, Major Acquisition Reforms
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Thursday, September 11, 2025
- Tranche 1 Transport and Tracking Layer to Be Up and Running by 2027
- Flurry Of Companies Publicize Navy MUSV Options
- Boeing Machinists In St. Louis To Vote Friday On Latest Contract Offer
- AV Swings To Loss In First Quarter On BlueHalo Deal As Sales Soar
- Ursa Major Developing New Solid Rocket Motor Test Site
- Coast Guard Taps Beautiful Bill Funds To Award Bollinger Contract For 10 FRCs
- White House Seeks $3.93 Billion Anomaly In CR For Procurement Of Columbia-Class Sub
- F.E. Warren AFB to Be Test Site for New Sentinel Silos
- Warren and Malmstrom Sentinel Missile Wings Construction Plans OK’d, Hoeven Says
- Potential $1 Billion AMRAAM Sale To Finland Gets State Department Nod
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Wednesday, September 10, 2025
- SDA Looks to Next Year for Operational Utility of Tranche 1, Transport Layer
- Army To Receive First M1E3 Abrams Tank Prototypes In 2026, George Says
- Leidos Starts Building New Small USV In Australia, Faster Variant Of Marine Corps ALPV
- MQ-4C Approved For Initial Use Despite Deficiencies That Could Prevent Mission Success, Says Pentagon Auditor
- Two-Year Effort to Design, Build, Test USAF Next Generation Penetrator Prototypes to Begin
- Lockheed Martin, BAE Systems Advanced R&D Groups Partner On Autonomous Aircraft Systems
- Ernst Says Democrats Stalling On New SBIR Bill
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Tuesday, September 9, 2025
- Army Taps Anduril, Rivet For IVAS Follow-On, Luckey Sees Potential Scaled Deliveries In 2027
- USAF APKWS Getting Software Upgrade for Counter Drone Operations
- Varda, LeoLabs, And Anduril Demonstrate Tracking Of Orbital Maneuvers Prior To Hypersonic Reentry
- Northrop Grumman/U.S. Army Negotiating ITDS Scope to Meet Service Fielding Goals
- FPS-117 Radomes for North Warning System ‘Experiencing Serious Panel Decay’
- Philippines Marks Re-Opening Of Subic Bay Shipyard With Korea’s HD Hyundai
- AeroVironment Nabs $240 Million Order For Space Long-Haul Laser Comms System
- RTX Nabs $205 Million Contract To Keep Building Phalanx CIWS
- AIRO, Ukraine’s Nord Drone, Plan On Joint Venture To Scale Production, Increase Offerings
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Monday, September 8, 2025
- Defense Watch: Department of War, BlueForge Leadership Change, MIB Anniversary, Shift 5 Investment
- Boeing Says MQ-28 Demonstrations Prove Operational Effectiveness
- SECNAV Establishes New Robotic And Autonomous Systems Program Office, Consolidating Portfolios
- Leidos Reveals Sea Dagger Commando Craft For U.K. Bid
- Congress Add for Northrop Grumman IVEWS May Top More Than $400 Million
- AEVEX Acquires RapidFlight Assets, Adding Drone Manufacturing At The Edge Capability
- Anduril Confirms Selection For Navy Carrier-Based CCA Design Development
- Overland AI To Use New SPARK Upfit Kit For Army’s ISV Autonomy Program
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Friday, September 5, 2025
- LITENING Modernization May Be Big Ramp-Up Opportunity for Northrop Grumman
- Austal Signs Outsourcing Agreement With Master Boat Builders
- AV Hands Over ISV-Mounted 20KW Laser Prototypes To Army, Delivering JLTV Version Next Month
- Tax Benefit Boosts SAIC’s Income In Second Quarter But Sales Dip On Federal Contracting Challenges
- Safran’s U.S. Business To Acquire Sensing Company Attollo Engineering
- Austal USA Awarded Long-Lead Options For Three Offshore Patrol Cutters
- PBS Aerospace Opens Turbojet Engine Facility In Georgia
- House Energy and Water Apps Bill Passes by Single Vote
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Thursday, September 4, 2025
- Army Awards Lockheed Martin $9.8 Billion PAC-3 MSE Contract
- Marine Corps Awards RTX $380 Million Deal For MRIC Full Rate Production
- Five Organizations Get Green Light on SLCM-N Prototype Designs
- MDA Investigating Low Cost Missile Defense Interceptor Under $1 Million
- Lockheed, RTX Nab $900.5 Million Javelin Order, Includes Missiles For Brazil, Tunisia
- House Committee Passes Bill Extending And Expanding Counter-Drone Authorities
- Startup Developing Autonomous Laser System For Drone Defense Raises $10 Million
- U.S. Space Force’s 30th Security Forces Squadron to Buy Dronebusters