Defense Daily Archive
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Monday, March 6, 2023
- Defense Watch: AFA, UKR Oversight, Sustainment CFT, FRC Delivery
- Army’s FY ‘24 Budget To Include ‘Multiple Requests’ For Large Multi-Year Munitions Deals, Bush Says
- Pyle: Navy Could Consider Adding Hypersonic Missiles To LUSVs, Wants To Upgrade Zumwalt Past Hypersonic Weapons
- U.S. Approves New $400 Million Weapons Package For Ukraine With More Ammunition
- Rolls-Royce F130 Engine for B-52 Fleet Begins Testing
- Tech Industry Reps See Thoughtful Approach To Regulations In Cyber Strategy; Liability Will Be Thorny
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Friday, March 3, 2023
- Regulation, Liability, National Power Tools Feature In New National Cybersecurity Strategy
- HII And Ocean Aero Announce Cooperation With Unmanned Vessels
- SDA Awards Raytheon and CesiumAstro Contracts for PWSA Network
- AM General Planning To Build JLTVs In ‘Some Very Non-Traditional Ways,’ CEO Says
- As Safety Measure, F-35 Program Orders Fleet Retrofit to Mitigate ‘Harmonic Resonance’
- GD NASSCO Delivers ESB-6 To Navy
- Raytheon Technologies Invests In Hyper-Resolution Radar Company
- State Department Approves Potential $619 Million Deal With Taiwan For F-16 Missiles
- Biden Issues Strategy For Countering WMD Terrorism, Advancing Rad-Nuke Security
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Thursday, March 2, 2023
- Army Set To Receive Common Tactical Truck Prototypes In Early January 2024
- Significant Increase in Kratos’ Annual Drone Production Possible, if Called to Meet Surge Demands
- Marine Corps Set To Start Testing Prototype Landing Ship In March
- MDA Seeking Industry Input On Why It Only Had One Bid For $3.3 Billion Contract
- Altamira Acquires Signals Intelligence Firm VaST
- Boeing Names McKenzie As New Chief Engineer; Hyslop To Retire
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Wednesday, March 1, 2023
- Ukraine Has Sought Up To 128 U.S. Fighter Jets But Not A Pressing Need, DoD Official Says
- Army Approved eLRV Prototype Requirement, May Not See EV Tactical Fleet ‘Until 2050’
- State Department Approves Sale Of 600 Javelin Missiles To U.K.
- USAF Awards Boeing $1.2 Billion for E-7A Wedgetail Rapid Prototyping
- Army Taps Five Firms For FTUAS Inc. 2 Prototyping To Inform Enduring Shadow Replacement
- DoD Fiscal 2024 Budget Likely to Address Shoring Up Industrial Capacity to Respond to Surge Demands
- HASC Vice Chair Doesn’t See ‘The Days Of Massively Increasing Defense Budgets’ Ahead
- BAE Tapped To Provide Maritime Indirect Fire Systems For U.K. Type 26 Frigates
- Commerce Department Opens Funding Opportunity To Catalyze Domestic Semiconductor Industry; Boost For DIB
- Raytheon’s Pratt & Whitney Holds Supplier Day on Capitol Hill for Proposed F135 Engine Core Upgrade
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Tuesday, February 28
- Leidos Names Rolls-Royce’s Bell As Next CEO; Krone To Retire
- Army Awards Maxar Contract To Continue Support One World Terrain Effort
- USAF Awards Contracts for Next Phase of Stand-in Attack Weapon Program
- Rivers: Navy Not Talking About ‘Walking Away’ From LPD Flight II
- China Likely To Hit U.S., Allies With Cyber-Attacks If It Attacks Taiwan, Easterly Warns
- US Still Waiting For Russia To Explain What Moscow’s Suspension of Last Nuke Treaty Means
- Northrop Grumman Receives New Production Order For Marines’ Next-Gen Handheld Targeting System
- Largest Middle East Naval Exercise Starts, Includes Unmanned Systems
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Monday, February 27, 2023
- Defense Watch: Taiwan Backlog, Tester To Run, Unmanned Exercise, Flag Moves
- Navy And Marine Corps Compromised On Medium Amphibs Requirements And Will Go Into Contested Environments, Officials Say
- F-35 Program to Undertake Mitigation Measures for Engine Harmonic Resonance, As F135 Deliveries Resume
- On One-Year Mark Of War, U.S. Approves $2 Billion In Weapons Aid For Ukraine With New Drones
- Healthy Defense Industrial Base, Supply Chain Part Of Biden’s Conventional Arms Transfer Policy
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Thursday, February 23, 2023
- Marine Corps Wants More LPDs, Does Not Support Early Decommissioning of LSDs
- Progressive Reps. Lee, Pocan Reintroduce Bill To Cut Defense Spending By $100 Billion
- U.S. Space Force Wants to Ramp Up Simulators for Training
- Lockheed Martin, Juniper Networks Demonstrate Advanced Networking To Prioritize Information Flow To Commanders
- USAF Finishes Flight Tests of F-16 Autonomous Gun System
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Wednesday, February 22, 2023
- Following Biden’s Visit To Kyiv, U.S. Approves $460 Million In New Security Aid For Ukraine
- Lockheed Martin Ventures Invests In Counter-Drone, Chip Companies
- Booz Allen Invests In Airspace Monitoring Company Hidden Level
- USAF Nearing Hypothesis on Numbers/Ratios of CCAs to Accompany F-35s, Manned NGAD
- Connecticut’s Murphy, West Virginia’s Capito Join Senate Appropriations Defense Panel
- Navy Secretary Directs New Long Term Infrastructure Plan
- Russia to ‘Suspend’ Participation in New START But Stick to Treaty’s Warhead Limits
- Court Will Wait Until Late Summer To Decide Fate of Lawsuit About S.C. Nuclear-Weapon Plant
- Fluor Earnings Rise During Quarter, Year, Although Mission Solutions Down
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Tuesday, February 21, 2023
- Defense Watch: GPS III Acceptance, KC-135 Inspections, Fresh BACN, DDG-102
- U.S. Space Force’s New Acquisition Approach Aims to Encourage More Launch Bidders
- Marine Official Dismisses Medium Amphib Survivability Concerns
- Austal Delivers Autonomous-Capable EPF-13 To Navy, CNO Downplays Quick Changes
- GOP Lawmakers ‘Urge’ Biden’s Budget Include Up To $2 Billion In Military Aid For Taiwan
- Russia Amped Up Cyber Campaigns Against NATO Countries In 2022, Report Says
- Pentagon May Award Performance-Based Logistics Contract for F-35 This Year
- Leidos To Upgrade Airport Body Scanners With AI Technology
- Army Taps GD OTS, American Ordnance For $993.8 Million Deal To Boost 155mm Ammo Production
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Friday, February 17, 2023
- Marine Corps’ 35-Ship Medium Amphib Requirement Means Nine Per Regiment, Based On Space Needs
- Delays Mount For Underground Lab Upgrades Seen As Critical For New Navy Nuke
- State Department Approves Potential $670 Million Deal With Netherlands For HIMARS, Munitions
- Northrop Grumman Performs Sentinel Wind Tunnel Testing
- Whitcraft, Paradigm Precision Combined To Form New Aircraft Engine Supplier
- AIA, CODSIA Detail Concerns With Potential Greenhouse Gas Mandate
- Livermore’s Next Subcritical Test Coming This Year
- Marine Corps Starts Evaluation Of Advanced Reconnaissance Vehicle Prototypes
- Biden Says Objects Shot Down Likely Not Surveillance Assets, Cites Improving Detection Capacity