Defense Daily Archive
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Friday, January 23, 2026
- Pentagon Launches Pilot Waiving Fees For 400 Patents To Help ‘Productize’ Its Billions In IP
- After Review Of 60 Programs Last Year, 2026 Is SSC’s Year Of Execution, Purdy Says
- Houses Passes Final $839 Billion FY ‘26 Defense Spending Bill, Heads To The Senate
- DoD Names Golden Dome Deputy
- Appropriators Restore Funding For Several Of Army’s Planned Cuts, Rebuke JLTV Decision
- Stratolaunch, Varda Space Selected As Launch Providers For Hypersonic Test Bed
- DDG-1000 Finishes HII Builders Trials After Hypersonic Launcher Installed
- SDA Awards Starfish Space $53 Million For Deorbiting Services Of PWSA Satellites
- Anduril Expanding In Southern California With 1.2 Million Square Feet Of Space
- CACI Posts Strong Earnings Gains In Second Quarter
- NNSA’s Williams: President Trump Will Make Call On Nuclear Testing
- NNSA Explores Pilot Project With AWS For Genesis, Fed Spending Site Says
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Thursday, January 22, 2026
- Appropriators Fund More Multi-Years For Munitions, But Not All Of DoD’s ‘Very Late’ Request
- Lawmakers Boost LSM Spending, Confirm Fincantieri As Shipbuilder But Warn On Cost Growth
- Space GMTI Partially Moves To Procurement Funding Account
- Appropriators Direct F/A-XX EMD Contract Award While Boosting Funding To Nearly $1 Billion
- Blue Origin Reveals TeraWave LEO/MEO Constellation For Enterprise, Government Connectivity
- Navy Reschedules Modular Missile Industry Day
- Space Force To Undertake Pilot Acquisition Reform Program, Appropriators Say
- Hypersonic Testing Company Stratolaunch Raises New Capital
- Wittman Introduces Bill To Speed Arms Sales To Taiwan
- Space Systems Command Seeks Help With Satellite Ground Systems, Ops Centers
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Wednesday, January 21, 2026
- Defense Appropriations Conferees Provide $900 Million Boost For Boeing E-7 Wedgetail
- Final FY ‘26 Defense Spending Bill Has $8.4 Billion Increase, Addresses Some ‘Broken Glass’ Requirements
- Golden Dome Budget Data Still Lacking, Impeding Oversight, Appropriators Say
- George: Army To Keep Moving ‘Faster’ On Modernization Priorities With Potential FY ‘27 Spending Boost
- FF(X) Needs Five “Significant” Capability Adds, Navy Starts From Scrapped 11th NSC
- $528 Million For Two More GPS IIIFs, As Appropriators Seek DAF Annual Commitment To Program
- Singapore Gets Okay For $2.3 Billion Sale Of P-8 Aircraft And Related Equipment
- Defense Bill Provides $500 Million To Add Alternative Solid Rocket Motor Sources
- NRO Launches Twelfth Proliferated Architecture Mission
- Canadian Software Firm Focused On Arctic Security Raises $15 Million In Seed Round
- Minibus That Funds NNSA Passes Senate, Heads To Trump’s Desk
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Tuesday, January 20, 2026
- Defense Watch: SHIELD Grows, Navy CCA Demo, Lunday Sworn In, York Sets Price
- FF(X) Frigate Restricts Engineering To Single Digit Changes Over NSC, Containerize Extra Systems
- Mistral, UVision To Provide HERO 90 Loitering Munition For Army’s LASSO Effort
- Navy Should Consolidate Command-And-Control Platforms For Unmanned Vessels, Official Says
- Coast Guard Establishes Rapid Prototyping Office
- Estonian Conference This Month May Dovetail With Pentagon Swarm Forge Effort
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Friday, January 16, 2026
- Head Of U.S. Fleet Forces Command Outlines Navy Need For Larger Missile Stable
- Battleship Solves The Weapons Choice DDG(X) Faced, Navy Official Says
- Anduril To Deliver More Than 600 Bolt-Ms For Marines’ OPF-L Loitering Munition Program
- USAF To Pursue Degraded Visual Environment System For HH-60W Without Helmet Mounted Display
- U.S. OKs Potential $1.5 Billion Deal With Peru For Naval Base Work, New FMS With Kuwait, Iraq
- HII Doubles The Size Of UK Unmanned Vehicle Facility
- Parsons Acquires Altamira For $375 Million, Strengthening Defense And Intelligence Work
- Seasats Discloses $24 Million APFIT Award For Lightfish ASVs
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Thursday, January 15, 2026
- “Wartime Footing” Message Not Reaching Some In Industry, Phelan Says
- CNO Supports Battleship Lasers, Foresees Them Reaching One Megawatt-Power Level
- HASC Seapower Chair Backs Battleship Concept, Reiterates Support For Navy’s F/A-XX
- CNO Seeks Defense Spending Over Four Percent Of GDP, Says Adding Nuclear Power To Battleship Would Delay It
- Lead Landing Ship Medium Contract Award Planned For Mid-2026
- DHS Official Sees Path To Boosting Buys Of Coast Guard NSCs, OPCs and Future Arctic Cutter
- Northrop Grumman Says It’s In Tune With Rapid Production Goal In DoD-L3Harris Agreement
- Army’s First HADES ISR Jet Prototype To Begin Flying This Spring, SNC Says
- Lockheed Martin, Saildrone Eye Missile Launch From USV This Summer During RIMPAC
- DIU, DAWG, Navy Launch $100 Million Challenge For Autonomous System Control
- Navy Marks Progress On Flight IIA Destroyer Modernization Effort
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Wednesday, January 14, 2026
- Duffey: “We’re Picking Speed” In $1 Billion Investment In L3Harris SRM Spin-Off
- Hegseth Directs ‘AI-First’ Military Strategy
- Lockheed Conducts Successful First Flight Test Of Stinger Replacement Offering
- DoD Counter-Drone Task Force Makes First Replicator 2 Purchase, Fortem’s DroneHunter
- Zumwalt Installs Of Hypersonic Weapon Tubes On Pace, Testing For IOC Unclear
- Hegseth Puts Chief Technology Officer In Charge Of DoD Innovation Efforts
- Robotics Upswing in Navy Shipbuilding Will Boost Job Numbers, Navy Official Says
- SNC Buys A Fourth Global 6500 Jet To Be First Non-Prototype For Army’s HADES Program
- Venture-Backed Data Management Company Onebrief Closes $200 Million Round; Acquires Battle Road Digital
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Tuesday, January 13, 2026
- Record F-35 Deliveries, PAC-3 Production Framework Show Lockheed Martin Stepping Up, Hegseth Says
- New Two-Bill Spending Deal Has $1 Billion Foreign Military Financing Boost, With Israel, Taiwan Funds
- X-Bow Systems Completes Preliminary Design Review For Standard Missile Motors
- DHS Creates Program Executive Office for Drone and Counter-Drone Systems
- 13th Hawkeye 360 Satellite Trio In Orbit
- Hanwha And HavocAI To Develop 200-Foot Autonomous Ship Aimed At Navy MASC
- Adkins Becomes NRO’s Principal Deputy Director
- DoD Strategic Capital Office Seeks Solutions To Better Engage With Technology Ecosystem
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Friday, January 9, 2026
- Trump Directive Halts Dividends, Stock Repurchases By “Major Defense Contractors”
- Department Of The Air Force Gets In Line With Hegseth Acquisition Reform Plan
- Work To Begin Building First FF(X) Frigate Is ‘Imminent,’ HII CEO Says
- HASC, SASC Chairs Back Trump’s Call For $1.5 Trillion Defense Budget In ‘27
- HII CEO Expects New Details On BBG(X) Battleship’s Design Schedule In Next 30-60 Days
- Lockheed, M1 Also Advance In Army’s Flight School Next Effort, As Lawmakers Seek More Info
- Marine Corps Awards Northrop Grumman MUX TACAIR Contract
- Lockheed Martin Announces “Record Breaking” Delivery Of 191 F-35s In 2025
- Mach Industries Adds Counter Drone System To Product Portfolio
- Karman To Acquire Composites And Material Sciences Companies To Boost Navy Work
- Bipartisan Appropriations Minibus That Includes Energy And Water Passes House
