Defense Daily Archive
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Wednesday, March 19, 2025
- Wittman: Defense In Budget Reconciliation May ‘End Up’ Above $100 Billion, Cites CR Impact
- U.S. Air Force and Navy Brief Trump and Congress on NGAD
- HASC To Emphasize Acquisition Reform In Next NDAA, Vice Chair Says
- USAF Wants to ‘Stop the Bleeding’ in Sustainment Accounts
- Wittman Says OMB Director Seems Open To SAWS-Type Shipbuilding Workforce Effort
- Booz Allen, Shield AI Partner On Autonomous Solutions For U.S. Military
- Mach Industries To Manufacture UAS For HevenDrones In New Partnership
- Brits Receive First Autonomous Anti-Mine Vessel
- DoD Officials Discuss Progress In Workforce Reductions
- GAO Recommended NNSA Improve ‘Decentralized’ Reporting On Risks To Industrial Base
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Tuesday, March 18, 2025
- Despite Mixed Signals, SAIC Seeing No Major Impact To Business From Trump Efficiency Effort
- Army Seeks White Papers To Inform New Air-Droppable Air Vehicle Development
- South Korea Finishes First Major Maintenance Service on U.S. Navy Replenishment Ship
- Albedo Space Says Clarity-1 to Show VLEO Is ‘Next Frontier’
- Navy And Marine Corps Officers Detail Downsides Of Full Year CR
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Monday, March 17, 2025
- Defense Watch: FPV Drones, Portugal Fighters, Reaper Pod, Office of Net Assessment Closes, McAleese Conference
- General Electric May Receive Up to $5 Billion for F110-129 Engines for Foreign F-15s
- Army Expanding TiC Rapid Fielding Initiative To Multi-Domain Task Forces
- DIU Selects Companies To Rapidly Prototype Long-Range Loitering Munitions For Contested Environments
- USAF Awards Lockheed Martin More Than $1.9 Billion for JASSM and LRASM
- U.S. Air Force Surveying Industry on Mature Counter UAS
- Ursa Major Nabs Award To Develop In-Space Propulsion Capability
- Amphib Ship Maintenance Plans Work Better If COCOMs Do Not Extend Units, Marine Corps Commandant Says
- Lawmakers Introduce Bill To Create Shipbuilding Commission
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Friday, March 14, 2025, vol. 305, Issue 47
- Boeing Tapped To Advance In Army’s IFPC Inc. 2 Second Interceptor Effort
- BlueHalo Details Successful Live Fire Of Offering For Army’s Next-Gen C-UAS Missile
- Firestorm Labs Selected For STRATFI Funding To Scale Modular UAS, 3D Printing Cell
- SASC Chair Suggests Reconciliation Should Include $175 Billion For Defense
- DIU Selects Slew Of Awardees For Quantum Sensing To Address PNT
- Transfer of Four KC-135s to Eielson in the Works, USAF Says
- Saildrone Becomes Third Defense Startup To Partner With Palantir
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Defense Daily, Thursday, March 13, 2025, Vol. 305, Issue 46
// PDF View- Army Vet, Anduril Exec Michael Obadal Nominated To Be Army Under Secretary
- Civilian Cuts To Space Force Workforce Will Challenge Acquisitions, Purdy Warns
- Arlington Capital Launches GRVTY, New Defense Technology Company
- U.S. Space Force Looking for Cost Estimates on PTES Modifications
- Hoeven Wants USAF Budget to Fund Updates for LRSO at Minot and Concurrent Upgrades to ICBM Bases for Sentinel
- Rocket Lab To Acquire Laser Comms Supplier Mynaric To Strengthen Supplier Base
- MDA Looks To Add Competition To SM-3 IIAs in RFI
- Senate Foreign Relations Top Dem, Senior SASC Member Shaheen Won’t Seek Reelection
- Workforce And Wage Increases Needed To Fix Shipbuilding Problems, Navy Official And Analysts Tell Lawmakers
- Shield AI Brings In Seasoned Executive To Help Scale Company
- CR Includes Slight Boost To Navy Shipbuilding, Adds Funds For Third Destroyer
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Wednesday, March 12, 2025
- Space Acquisition Chief Assessing Commercial Options For Situational Awareness, Comms, Other Needs
- Army Rebrands IVAS Next, Plans Open Competition For Prototyping Period
- DoD Looks for Launch Alternatives, as Launch Emerges As ‘Long Lead Item’
- Responding to DoD Direction, DiSCO Not Focused on Specific Platform
- U.S. Lifts Pause On Security Aid For Ukraine, As Kyiv Backs Ceasefire Proposal
- HII Wins Australian Contract To Help Aussies Qualify as Sub Suppliers
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Tuesday, March 11, 2025
- NGA’s Latency For Imagery Improves But More Data Requires More Compute, Whitworth Says
- Construction Halted On Last National Security Cutter Over Conformance Issues
- Space Development Agency Independent Review Team Begins Work
- Anduril Wins $642.2 Million Marine Corps Deal For Capability To Protect Bases From Small Drones
- House GOP’s Full-Year CR With Defense Boost Faces Narrow Path, Senate Dem Pushback
- Australia’s New Submarine Industry Strategy Plans For $19 Billion Domestic Investment
- Sikorsky Details Successful ‘Full Mission Profile’ Demos With Rotor Blown Wing UAS Concept
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Monday, March 10 2025
- Defense Watch: Sentinel Static Fire, Spartan Mace, Guam Challenges, Maven
- Collins: Missile Defense ‘Magazine Depth Is Going to Be Crucial’
- Hegseth Signs Memo Directing DoD ‘Maximize’ Use Of Tools To Rapidly Deliver Software
- Palantir Delivers Two More TITAN Intel Ground Station Prototypes To Army
- Rapid Prototyping Key in NC3 Modernization
- DHS Wants To Take Counter-Drone Activities Nationwide
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Friday, March 7, 2025
- Runway Size, Long-Range Fuel Delivery, and Signature Considered by USAF in NGAS AoA
- DARPA Launches Prototype USV Designed For Zero Sailors
- Army Approves Collins Aerospace’s MAPS Gen II For Full-Rate Production
- York Space Systems Completes Environmental Testing For Experimental National Security Mission
- U.K. Administered Fund For Ukraine Contracts With Anduril For Loitering Munitions
- Small Startup With Natural Language Processing Tool Launches AI-Powered Public Sector Offering
- Shield AI Raises $240 Million In New Round That Includes L3Harris
- National Security Space Association Pushes for Doubling of Space Force Budget by FY 2030
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Thursday, March 6, 2025
- SASC Chair ‘Encouraged’ By Trump’s Plan For New White House Shipbuilding Office
- U.S. Space Force Expects GPS OCX Fielding Decision This Year
- HASC’s Crow, Wittman Suggest Pushing More Procurement Authority To COCOMs
- CCA Builders Believe Commercial Engines Will Reap Big Savings
- NTS-3 May Launch This Year on Vulcan Centaur
- AeroVironment Swings To Loss In Third Quarter; Cali Fires Clip Sales
- Epirus Raises $250 Million To Boost Leonidas Production, Strengthen Supply Base
- Design Nearly Complete On Polar Security Cutter, Full Rate Production Still Ahead
- OMB, DHS On Board With Coast Guard’s Goal Of $20 Billion Budget, Official Says
- Thunderforge Award Goes To Scale AI, Bringing Artificial Intelligence To Military Planning