Defense Daily Archive
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Tuesday, September 1, 2026
- GD Signs Framework Deals With Pentagon To Boost PAC-3 MSE, THAAD Component Production
- Anduril Ramping Up Undersea Drone Production Line Through 2027; Aims To Ready Extra Large Production Line By End of Year
- Yearly Production Capacity Of More Than 100 AE 1107F Engines For MV-75, Rolls-Royce Says
- Lockheed, RTX Plan Javelin Co-Production Effort In India With Tata Advanced Systems
- Drone Company Easy Aerial Raises $20 Million To Scale Production, Global Business
- SAIC’s Earnings Dip In Second Quarter On Higher Taxes
- Interview with Rolls-Royce’s AE 1107 Program Director, Scott Ames provides updates on the development of the AE 1107
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Monday, August 31, 2026
- Defense Watch: NGI Concerns, Valkyrie CCA, ESB-8 Delivery, Counter-Drone Partners
- Rolls-Royce Plans To Deliver 20 F130 Flight Test Engines For B-52 CERP Starting Next Spring
- Firehawk Live Fires Hydra-70 Rockets Shortly After Army Award
- DoD Adds To Equity Stake In Alumina Refiner, Makes Equity Investment In Metals Company
- REGENT Raises $240 Million To Transition Seagliders To Manufacturing
- Trump Directs Establishment Of United States Space Academy
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Friday, August 28, 2026
- AV Nabs $51 Million Switchblade 600 Order With Deliveries To U.S. Army, FMS Customer
- L3Harris Adding Shield AI’s Computer Vision Tech To Strengthen VAMPIRE C-UAS Platform
- Small Drones Improve Border Patrol’s Operations But Limitations Exist, DHS IG Says
- Q-CTRL Demonstrates GPS-Free Navigation At Sea
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Thursday, August 27, 2026
- Marines Plan OPF-L, Organic C-sUAS Fielding Soon Amid Ground Combat Element 2040 Push
- Castelion Nabs Another $90 Million Navy Order To Fund First 50 Blackbeard Weapons
- Raytheon Awarded $603 Million For New Radar For B-52
- Army Chooses Five Companies To Build Janus Reactors At Military Sites
- Smaller Space Companies Want To See Programs Of Record For Their Investments
- Navy Seeks Prototypes For New Air-Launched Torpedo
- Counter-Drone Startup Mara Raises $7 Million To Advance Spike, An Integrated System
- Marine Corps Warfighting Lab Accepts First Aussie-Designed Prototype Surface Craft
- LeoLabs To Provide Space Force With Surveillance Radar
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Wednesday, August 26, 2026
- Ursa Major Going Public To Scale Hypersonic Weapon, Rocket Motors And Engines
- Oshkosh Invests $50 Million-Plus To Support Potential JLTV ‘Bridge’ Production For Marines
- MDA Looking To “Dramatically” Lower Costs Of Missile Defense Kill Vehicles
- SDA Director Says Constellation’s Tranche 1 Checkouts Progressing Faster After Slow Start
- Auriga Fires Containerized Electromagnetic Launcher In First Field Test
- Air Force Mulls Draft Solicitation On Future Air Operations Center Weapon System
- SecNav Creates New Defense Industrial Base Office
- White House Links Nuclear Energy To National Security And Deterrence
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Tuesday, August 25, 2026
- Navy Unveils New AIM-424 Long-Range Air-To-Air Missile
- Army Eyes Deal To Boost GMLRS Production To 19,000 Rockets Annually Between FY ‘28-’34
- Collins Aerospace Says Company Completed Altitude Testing of EPACS
- Army Begins Assessing Counter-Drone Technology To Aid Countermine Efforts
- Defense Department Invests $750 Million To Help Secure Access To Rare Earth Materials
- Union Ratifies New Five-Year Agreement With GD Bath Iron Works
- Interview with Col. Burges and Col. Monaghan on Recent Army Sandhills Autonomous Mine Clearing Family of Systems Demo
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Monday, August 24, 2026
- Defense Watch: MQ Next, DOT&E Concerns, SSN Shakedown, Army Motors
- USAF Working on CCA Increment 2 Acquisition Strategy, As Service Considers An Evolution Of Increment 1
- Guetlein On Golden Dome: ‘We Cannot Protect This Nation And Bankrupt It At The Same Time’
- C-UAS Marketplace Is ‘Accelerating Rapidly,’ JIATF-401 Director Says
- White House Targets Support For 1,000 Launches Per Year by 2030
- Interview with Rep. Jeff Crank (R-Colo.), co-chair of the Golden Dome Caucus
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Friday, August 21, 2026
- Qatar Could Become Fourth Country With KC-46As, As State Department Okays $4.5 Billion Sale
- Army Eyes Plans To Begin Production Of New T901 Helicopter Engine By 2031
- Saildrone And Lockheed Martin Test Fired Missiles Off USV During RIMPAC
- Castelion Raises $1 Billion To Produce Hypersonic Weapon Sooner, Develop New Weapons
- ThinKom Nabs Army Award To Begin Testing Prototype High-Power Microwave For Countering Drones
- Space Force PAE For Infrastructure Completing Move To Colorado Springs
- Portal Space Plans First Launch Of Transorbital Supernova Spacecraft In 2028
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Thursday, August 20, 2026
- DoD Declined To Brief CBO On Golden Dome
- X-Bow Planning Flight Test Of Low Cost Interceptor For MDA In Early 2028
- Air Force Interested In New, Lower-Cost Aerial Targets
- Hanwha Defense USA To Deliver First K9 Mobile Howitzer Prototype To Army This Fall
- Army To Test And Evaluate Elroy Air’s Hybrid-Electric VTOL Under New Contract
- REGENT Demonstrated Autonomous Seaglider At Navy Drone Event
- U.S. Innovation Technology Fund Lists More Than $1.5 Billion Raised In Private Equity Sale
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Wednesday, August 19, 2026
- Anduril Says 2nd CCA Exercise With Air Combat Command’s EOU Featured Multiple Daily Sorties Of YFQ-44A
- E-2D Block II Passes Critical Design Review
- Army Picks Hanwha Defense USA To Deliver K9 Mobile Howitzers For Rapid Prototyping Effort
- Aerospace Report Examines Defense And Space Growth In FY ‘27 Budget Request
- F.E. Warren’s 90th Missile Security Operations Squadron To Buy DJI Drones For Counter-UAS Testing
- Australia Picks Amentum Joint Venture To Develop New AUKUS Sub Shipyard
- Saildrone Boosting Presence In Europe To Support USV Growth
- Smack Raises $61 Million To Expand Scope Of Edge Autonomy Platform
- CVN-79 Carrier Finishes Acceptance Trials