Defense Daily Archive
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Monday, November 25, 2024
- Defense Watch: UKR Production, Israel Arm Sales, NATO VC, Indo-Pacific BDA
- SNC Conducts First Flight Of RAPCON-X ISR Jet Selected For Army’s ATHENA-S
- Anduril Static Fires New Rocket Booster, Signaling New Competitor In Hypersonic Arena
- Lockheed Martin Receives Nearly $870 Million in Long Lead Funding for F-35 Lot 20
- DOT&E Report Noted F-35 Deficiencies A Month Before Full-Rate Pentagon Go Ahead
- Navy Orders $1.7 Billion In Seven More International Boeing P-8As
- Australia and Canada Commit To Research Missile Defense Together
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Friday, November 22, 2024
- McConnell To Take Over As Senate’s Top Defense Appropriator In Next Congress
- SpaceX’s Starshield Has Received Most Task Orders in $660 Million for Space Force pLEO Services So Far
- Some GPS Launches Awaiting Vulcan Certification
- Incoming Senate GOP No. 2 Backs SecDef Nom, As Hegseth Faces Sexual Assault Allegations
- Textron To Deploy Aerosonde UAS On More Ships
- INDOPACOM Commander Admits Allied Transfers Eating Into Weapon Stocks
- Skunk Works Partnership Demonstrates Airborne Battle Management With AI-Controlled Aircraft
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Thursday, November 21, 2024
- DIU Announces Awardees For Replicator Command And Control, And Autonomous Teaming
- LM 400 Satellite To Fly By Middle of 2025 on Firefly Alpha Rocket, Lockheed Martin Says
- Red Cat Wins Army’s Short Range Reconnaissance Small UAS Production Deal
- Cargo Delivery From Space Startup Inversion Raises $44 Million In Funding Round
- U.S. OKs $275 Million In New Weapons For Ukraine Amid Push To Use Remaining Assistance
- Lockheed Martin Part of ICEYE Consortium to Provide ATR for F-35
- Drones Not Enough To Secure An Indo-Pacific Conflict, Says INDOPACOM Commander
- Navy Ramps Up SLCM-N With Industry Research
- Nuke Agency Refutes Anti’s Court Claims, Says Feds Looked at Environmental Effect of Making Warhead Cores in New Mexico
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Wednesday, November 20, 2024
- Tournear: ‘Majority’ of DoD Systems Could Use SDA Acquisition Approach
- AeroVironment Postures As Alternative Defense Prime With Deal To Acquire BlueHalo
- Startup Developing Optical Gyro On A Chip For GPS-Denied Ops Gets Funding With Lockheed’s Help
- Ukraine Fires U.S.-Made ATACMS Long-Range Missiles Into Russia For First Time
- NRO Looks to Bolster Satellite Cyber Protection
- Navy Investigates More Frigate Design And Construction Sources Amid Major Delays
- U.S., Australia And Japan To Increase Trilateral Aerospace And Autonomous R&D
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Tuesday, November 19, 2024
- McCord Sees 2028 Goal To Pass Audit As ‘Achievable,’ As Pentagon Falls Short For 7th Year
- Sub Official Vows First Columbia Boat On Patrol By 2030
- AUKUS Partners Sign Hypersonic Agreement
- ONCD Works to Operationalize Cyber Guidance for Space Systems
- AFRL Picks Silent Arrow to Demo 200 Mile Autonomous Delivery, Yates Says
- DoD Launches Public-Private Maritime Security Consortium To Aid Southeast Asian Allies
- SiAW Test Missile Delivered to USAF, Northrop Grumman Says
- DIU Awards Vannevar Labs Contract To Transition Data Analysis Solution Into Production
- Navy Looks Into More Low Cost Unmanned Vessel Prototypes
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Monday, November 18, 2024
- Defense Watch: Duckworth on Hegseth, Gray Eagle Demo, UAS Prohibition
- Top SASC Dems Urge Probe Of Musk’s Reported Putin Talks, Potential Review Of SpaceX Deals
- CCA Challenge: Accommodating Sensor Processing to Meet Size, Weight, Power, Cost Goals
- Navy Pushing Through Obstacles To Two Attack Subs Plus Columbia By 2028, Boosting Industrial Base By 140,000 Workers
- MDA Awards Northrop Grumman $541 Million In Hypersonic Missile Defense Work After Downselect
- To Support Sentinel in F.E. Warren Missile Fields, USAF May Build 1,600 to 2,000 Miles of Utility Corridors
- Coast Guard Announces Preferred Basing Option For Future Polar Icebreakers In Seattle
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Friday, November 15, 2024
- USAF Options for Manned NGAD Include Quick Refueling, Shorter Landing Zones at Protected Bases
- Coast Guard Expects DHS Approval Shortly To Begin Icebreaker Construction But Needs More Funding
- Navy Plans Virginia Subs Go To Block Eight Before SSN(X) Starts
- Hypersonic Weapons On Zumwalt Destroyer Pushed Back To 2027
- Launch Industry May Benefit from FAA Review of Commercial Rules
- LaPlante To Industry: Assess What It Takes To Get After Five-Fold Production Rate Increases
- DIU Component Selects 10 Companies To Protect Navy’s Operational Technology
- Teledyne FLIR Defense Nabs $168.3 Million Deal To Upgrade Army’s M1135 NBCRV Strykers
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Thursday, November 14, 2024
- DoD’s Replicator 1.2 Includes Small UASs, Loitering Munition, Drone Development Effort
- Anduril Touts Lattice Integration With Multiple Sensors In CENTCOM’s Desert Guardian
- U.S., Canada And Finland Formalize Effort On Polar Icebreaker Development And Production
- USAF Eyes $100,000 Per Copy Munitions
- Rocket Lab Signs First Neutron Launch Contract, Posts 55% Growth in Q3
- U.S. Air Force to Refine CCA Increment 2 Concept, As Service Announces Buy of More Increment 1 Aircraft
- SDA Taps Kratos For Missile Defense Fire Control Ground Infrastructure
- New Senate GOP Leader Thune Open To Recess Appointments, Analysts See ‘Difficult’ Path For SecDef Pick
- Starfish Gets $29 Million In New Funding To Complete Development Of Otter Spacecraft
- Navy Awards Kongsberg $961 Million Contract For Naval Strike Missiles
- Elon Musk’s New Government Efficiency Job: Pros and Cons for the Satellite Industry
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Wednesday, November 13, 2024
- Trump Picks HASC Member, China Hawk Mike Waltz As National Security Adviser
- House’s Top Defense Appropriator Calvert Projected To Win Reelection
- Autonomous KC-135 Flight Testing May Begin Next Year
- Textron Nabs $394 Million Mod For Nine More SSC Landing Craft
- India’s JSW Group To Invest $90 Million In Shield AI, Manufacture V-BATs
- Firefly Closes $175 Million Funding Round To Scale Production, Accelerate MLV Development
- AUV Startup Vatn Systems Raises $13 Million In Seed Round That Includes Lockheed, RTX, And SAIC
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Tuesday, November 12, 2024
- Defense Watch: NGA AI Strategy, UKR Aid, ACV-30, More ASTs
- Kratos’ DeMarco Bullish On What Trump, With Help From Musk, Means For Startups And Non-Traditional Defense Companies
- Army Awards Repkon USA Potential $435 Million Deal To Build New TNT Factory In Kentucky
- U.S. Space Force Examining Follow-On Support for WGS and DSCS
- DoD Awards New CHIPS Funds To Microelectronics Commons Hubs
- BlackSky Acquires Full Stake in LeoStella Ahead of Gen-3 Constellation
- New Team Forms To Compete For CVN-75 Carrier Dismantlement