Defense Daily Archive
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Wednesday, March 13, 2024
- F-35 Enters Full-Rate Production Nine Years After Beginning Service
- Navy Leaders Predict Reaching Two SSNs Per Year By 2028, Columbia May Be Delayed
- USAF Boosts NGAD/CCA Request by $980 Million in Fiscal 2025
- Army Cancels ERCA Development, Will Assess Industry’s Existing Capabilities This Summer
- Poland Orders $3.7 Billion In U.S. Missiles
- Navy Looks To Retire 10 Ships Early In FY ‘25
- Pentagon Plans To Spend $1 Billion On Replicator Over Next Two Years
- USAF Boosts NGAD/CCA Request by $980 Million in Fiscal 2025
- USAF Budgets $375 Million for SiAW in Fiscal 2025
- Shield AI Gets Navy Contract To Integrate AI Pilot On Aerial Target
- New NORTHCOM Chief Initiates Capabilities Assessment
- U.K., Canadian, and French Space Command Officials Push the Importance of Space Security
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Tuesday, March 12, 2024
- Pentagon’s $849.8 Billion FY ‘25 Budget Rolled Out Amid Uncertain Spending Environment
- Army Details $185.9 Billion FY ‘25 Budget Request, Plans $4.5 Billion Aviation Reinvestment In Coming Years
- Navy Says FY 2025 Budget Caps Imposed ‘Hard Choices’ To Lower Ship Procurement
- Navy Budget Caps Caused Cuts And Delays in USVs And NGAD, Officials Say
- Department of Air Force Budgets $3.7 Billion for Sentinel in Fiscal 2025, Re-Examines Requirements Looking to Fiscal 2026
- Coast Guard Seeks Two More FRCs In FY ‘25 Budget To Enhance Indo-Pacific Presence
- FMS Deals Approved For Korea, North Macedonia
- Kendall: Fiscal Responsibility Act Constraints Will Slow U.S. Space Force Programs
- CBP Requests Less Funding For Border Security Technology
- Stratolaunch, With Ursa Major’s Hadley Engine, Completes First Powered Talon-A Hypersonic Flight
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Monday, March 11, 2024
- Defense Watch: Fixed Price Vs Cost Plus, Indemnification, VC Cheers Palantir Win, Drone Corps
- BAE Systems Delivers New AMPV Turreted Mortar Prototype To Army For Testing
- Marine Corps Awards Deals To GD, Textron For Turreted ARV-30 Prototypes
- IFPC-HPM Prototype Deliveries Complete, Epirus Eyes Engineering Tests Ahead Of Potential Deployment
- U.S. And Japan To Finalize Hypersonic Defense Co-Development Agreement
- DoD Strategic Capital Office Releases Investment Strategy And Initial Priority Areas
- EO/IR Cubesat Tech Demo on SpaceX Transporter-10 Mission
- V-22s Cleared To Fly Again
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Friday, March 8, 2024
- Army To Stand Up New Cross-Functional Team Focused On Deep Sensing
- In First, MDA Directed Not To Brief On FY25 Budget; Prefers Extra Funds On Higher Interceptor Numbers
- Third All-Up-Round Test to Conclude Rapid Prototyping for ARRW
- CENTCOM Chief Wants More Directed Energy Weapons In Theater
- USAF May Finalize ‘Gapfiller’ Tanker Strategy This Summer
- Army To HASC Panel: Unmanned Systems Embrace, Industrial Base Risks Factors In FARA Cancelation
- HASC’s Wittman Confident House Takes Up Foreign Aid Bill After Finishing Approps
- State Department Approves $309 Million In Foreign Military Sales To South Korea, Canada
- U.K. Space Agency Lead Emphasizes National Priorities at Space-Comm Expo
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Thursday, March 7, 2024
- Palantir Beats Out RTX To Continue Developing Army’s TITAN Intel Ground Station
- Commission Reviewing DoD Budget Planning Releases Final Report, Calls For Implementing New System
- Officials Detail ‘Monumental’ Data Sharing Between Joint Force, Allies At Army’s Project Convergence
- Saildrone And Austal Launch First Surveyor USV From Mobile; CNO Visits Gulf Coast Yards
- SEC Requires Public Companies To Disclose Certain Greenhouse Gas Emissions
- TSA, DHS S&T Set To Live Test Passenger Checkpoint Self-Screening System
- Department of the Air Force Likely to Follow U.S. Army Lead on Tactical Electrical Vehicles
- Royal Bahraini Air Force Receiving First ‘Ferry’ of F-16 Block 70s
- Boeing Receives US Space Force Contract for WGS-12 Satellite
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Wednesday, March 6, 2024
- Army Accepting Proposals For Electric Light Reconnaissance Vehicle Prototype Effort
- Loitering Munitions Business Helps Propel AeroVironment To Record Third Quarter
- GD Submits Bid For Army’s SMET Inc. II To Continue Supplying Ground Robots
- Special Operations Personnel and Airmen Rehearse Palletized Munitions Delivery
- USAF Lays Out Details of Possible HH-60W Upgrades
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Tuesday, March 5, 2024
- Terran Mulls Lockheed Offer; Adopts Poison Pill Defense To Keep Options Open
- Army To Work With Multiple Vendors On Developing New Automated Fires Targeting Software
- Coast Guard Moves Closer To Acquiring Commercial Polar Icebreaker
- BlackSky Heralds Win of DoD Contract for Moving Target Analysis
- SECNAV Continues Asian Tour To Attract Shipbuilding Investments
- Lockheed Martin Makes Bid For Terran Orbital Valued at $606 Million
- Army Seeks Industry’s Info On Gun-Based Counter-Drone, New Small UAS Solutions
- Last LPD Flight 1 Amphib Passed Acceptance Trials
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Monday, March 4, 2024
- Defense Watch: Emphasis On Space Ground Systems, SBIRS High, DHS CUAS Testing, Firefly Expansion
- AFRL Solicits Input on Adaptive Artificial Intelligence and Future Distributed Command and Control
- Poland Signs $2.5 Billion Deal With U.S. For More IBCS Equipment
- SECNAV Lobbies South Korean Shipbuilders To Invest In U.S. Yards
- HASC Republicans Push For Multi-Year Amphibious Ship Procurement
- Biden Signs CR To Avoid Shutdown, As Lawmakers Ready Six Spending Bills For Next Week
- BigBear.ai Closes $70 Million Acquisition Of Pangiam, Adding To Computer Vision Expertise
- Space Force Awards Four Contracts For Ground Station C2 Architecture
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Friday, March 1, 2024
- STRATCOM Head Wants Examination of Multiple Warhead ICBMs, Conventional Long-Range Strike Missile
- Anduril, Hanwha Team On Bid For SMET Inc. II, Army Eyes Prototype Award Later This Year
- Coast Guard Sees Cyber Vulnerabilities In Chinese-Built Port Cranes But No Signs Of Malware
- Boeing Nabs $3.4 Billion Contract For 17 International P-8A Poseidons
- Navy Awards Sigma Defense $19 Million Contract To Integrate Autonomy Software For Unmanned Vehicles
- Boeing Agrees To $51 Million Settlement To Resolve Export Violations That Include China And Russia
- Australian Parliament To Scrutinize Space Treaty for U.S. Launches Down Under
- Thales Delivers First Frigate-Bound Anti-Sub CAPTAS Sonar
- Rocket Lab Grows Revenue 16% in 2023, Debuts Spacecraft Bus Lineup
- BlackSky’s 45% Revenue Growth in 2023 Fueled by International Customer Gains
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Thursday, February 29, 2024
- Services Warn Against A Full Year Continuing Resolution, Would Need Tens Of Billions In Reprogramming
- SOCOM Continuing Cuts To Vehicle Fleet Citing Budget Constraints, New Operational Priorities
- Lockheed Martin Passes Another NGI Milestone On The Way To Critical Design Review
- Navy Experts Outline AI Challenges
- NRO Adds Umbra To Next Stage Of Commercial RF Sensing Contract
- Sparking U.S. Defense Industrial Base to Meet Ukraine Defense Is Key Challenge, J-4 Says
- State Department Approves $281 Million Sale Of L3Harris Radios To Germany
- Metallus In $99 Million Deal With Army For Expand Metals Capacity For Artillery Shells
- BWXT Earnings Rise in 2023, Fourth Quarter; DoE Award a ‘Wild Card’