Defense Daily Archive
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Friday, April 7, 2023
- GAO Denies Sikorsky’s Protest Of Army’s Potential $7 Billion FLRAA Award To Bell
- Rise in Spare Parts Cost Cited As Major Factor Behind USAF Requested Increase in FY 2024 for Flying Hours
- USAF Decision May Come This Summer on Gapfiller Tanker Between KC-46 and NGAS
- NRO Awards Options To Four Commercial RF Satellite Companies
- Coast Guard Hoping For Updated Icebreaker Production Timeline From Bollinger Later This Year
- Space Security Company True Anomaly Emerges From Shadow With $30 Million In Financing
- NNSA Administrator: ‘I Want To Scream From The Mountaintop’ No Future Nuke Testing
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Thursday, April 6, 2023
- U.S. Space Force Plans to Field Hypersonic Tracking Sensors in 2020s
- Coast Guard Releases Unmanned Systems Strategy; Expects To Contract For Services
- Fairbanks Morse Defense Launches Program To Nurture And Leverage Emerging Tech Companies
- Army Approves GM Defense’s Infantry Squad Vehicle For Full-Rate Production
- F-35C Sees ‘Significant Improvement’ In Mission Capability
- Deloitte Launches Space Practice
- Nuke Agency Filling Slots In New Contractor Liaison Office
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Wednesday, April 5, 2023
- Navy Readies To Scale Use Of Unmanned Systems, Expanding To Fourth Fleet In July
- DoD Official Touts U.S. Military Power In Arctic; Says More To Come With Allies
- Navy Begins Underwater Testing Of First Orca XLUUV
- Tournear: Demand Likely to Grow for Commercial Deorbiting Systems
- U.S. Approves $2.6 Billion In New Weapons Aid For Ukraine
- Apple VP Doug Beck Named New DIU Director, Will Report Direct To SecDef
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Tuesday, April 4, 2023
- Army Awards Potential $4.5 Billion Multiple-Year Deal To Lockheed Martin For JAGMs, Hellfires
- Gilday Says Navy’s Project Overmatch ‘In Full Swing’ With Carl Vinson Strike Group, Looking To Scale
- U.S. Navy Studying Utility of Equipping Poseidon with AARGM-ER
- Australia Selects Lockheed Martin for Sovereign Defense Satcom Project JP9102
- Insitu Introduces VTOL Capability For Fixed-Wing Integrator UAS
- BlueHalo Adds To Counter-Drone Portfolio With Acquisition Of Verus Technology Group
- Marine Corps May Decide On ARV Path Forward By Late Summer, BAE Systems Official Says
- Northrop Grumman Announces Teammates For Navy TACAMO Recap
- BAE Systems Announces Receiving $491 Million for Block 4 EW Suite for F-35
- Aegis Combat System Successfully Intercepts Target During Flight Test, Lockheed Martin Says
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Monday, April 3, 2023
- Defense Watch: Fighter Fall, Explosive Capacity, Remote ID Award, C-UAS
- BAE Systems Details Moves To Expand AMPV, ACV Production Capacity At York Facility
- MDA Tests Aegis SM-6 Against MRBM Target
- Boeing Announces KC-46A Advanced Communications Contract
- Navy Awards HII $1.3 Billion Contract For LPD-32
- Raytheon Nabs $650 Million Contract For 15 Next-Gen Jammers
- Three Former Austal USA Employees, Including President, Indicted For Accounting Fraud On LCS Program
- DoD Studying Congressional Mandate For New Cyber Office As Nominee Awaits
- SDA is Ready to Demonstrate PWSA Capabilities With the First Tranche 0 Launch
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Friday, March 31, 2023
- Army’s Stryker-Mounted 50KW Laser Headed For User Assessment In Early FY ‘24
- SECNAV: Columbia Sub 10 Percent Behind, Virginia Subs Improving But Still Behind
- USAF Proposed Retirement of 32 Block 20 F-22s Accounts for More Than $400 Million in Service’s $2.3 Billion NGAD Request
- Administration, Private Sector Meet On Space Systems Cybersecurity; Plan Further Collabs
- USAF Considering Reuse of Previous Backscatter Sites
- Cyber Command’s Hunt Forward Operations Popular With Partner Nations, Nakasone Says
- DISA Begins Pilot Effort To Harden Perimeter Of DoD Information Network
- Senators Still Favor Nuclear-Tipped Sea-Launched Cruise Missile That Was Zeroed Out In Biden Budget
- Space ISAC Stands Up Operational Watch Center to Respond to Threats in Real Time
- Navy Plans To Reopen Puget Sound Dry Docks Within Months After Seismic Repairs
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Thursday, March 30, 2023
- Berger Added LPD-33 To UPL Due To Navy Plans, Navy Says Latest Amphib Study Looking At Costs, Over Requirement
- Sen. Murkowski Concerned That Polar Security Cutter Program In Major ‘Trouble’
- Army’s Nearly $2 Billion FY ‘24 Unfunded List Includes IVAS, More Abrams Upgrades
- Army Officially Seeking Prototype Proposals For Robotic Combat Vehicle, Firms Detail Interest
- GAO Raises Questions on Engine Upgrade for F-35
- Army Eyeing Readiness Impacts of Artillery Ammunition Supplies to Ukraine
- Lockheed Martin And Raytheon Picked To Develop HALO Hypersonic Anti-Ship Missile
- Funding Request For Checkpoint CT Would Delay Build Out Until 2042, Pekoske Says
- Army Forms New Cross-Functional Team Focused On Contested Logistics
- DISA Awards Initial Task Orders Under $9 Billion Enterprise Cloud Program
- Lockheed Martin Debuts Crescent Space Subsidiary and Parsec Lunar Constellation
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Wednesday, March 29, 2023
- Army Eyes Cost Savings Percentage In ‘High Single Digits’ With Potential GMLRS, PAC-3 Multi-Years
- Army Aims To Boost 155mm Ammo Production To 85,000 Rounds Per Month By 2028
- Navy Seeks $2 Billion in 2024 Unfunded List
- Austin Rejects Mandate For Unfunded Priorities Lists
- Kendall: Collaborative Combat Aircraft ‘Essential’ to USAF Future
- Reaper Drones Not Survivable In Hostile Airspace Over Ukraine, Defense Chiefs Say
- IBCS Full-Rate Production Decision Set For April 10, Poland Will Be Operational By End Of Summer
- Army Taps Lockheed, Raytheon To Work On Stinger Missile Replacement Prototypes
- Labor Shortage Outlasts COVID, Delays Nuclear-Weapons Infrastructure, NNSA Administrator Says
- Leonardo DRS Posts Higher Earnings On Flat Sales In Fourth Quarter
- CL-20 Used in Switchblade 300, May See Wider Use in JASSM-ER, LRASM, Other Munitions
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Tuesday, March 28, 2023
- Lockheed, Raytheon Developing Missiles To Inform Army’s Future Long-Range PrSM Inc. 4
- MDA Set To Move Hypersonic Defense From Analysis To Hardware, Technology Development
- USAF Plans Sensor Testing for Autonomous F-16s
- Biden Issues Determination To DoD To Strengthen Industrial Base For Microelectronics
- Lockheed Martin Awards Contract To Aerojet Rocketdyne For THAAD Components
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Monday, March 27, 2023
- Defense Watch: UKR Aid, Trust in IVAS, Counter-Drone Support
- Two F-15Es Strike Militia Targets in Syria with 20 SDBs
- Lawmakers Look Into Advanced Energetics for Munitions
- CVN-79 To Be Delivered One Year Later Than Planned
- New DDG(X) Land-Based Test Site Opens In Philadelphia
- CBP Releases Draft Solicitation For Anomaly Detection Algorithm For Scanners
- Too Few Employees Contributed to Delays in Y-12 Uranium Processing Facility