Defense Daily Archive
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Thursday, July 9, 2026
- Space Force NSSL Phase 3, Lane 1 Field Now At Seven With Two New Companies Added
- Trump Says U.S. Will Grant Ukraine License To Build Patriot Interceptors
- Navy Previews Second MUSV Variant
- York Space And All.Space CEOs Detail Resilient Communications Vision As Acquisition Closes
- NATO To Buy Up To 10 Saab GlobalEye Aircraft To Help Replace Alliance’s AWACS Fleet
- UK Plans To Join U.S. Army’s PrSM Program, Will Invest $254 Million
- Raytheon Working With European Firms To Build Stingers In Netherlands, Double Production Capacity
- Raytheon Qualifying More European Suppliers for AMRAAM, Company Says
- Venus Aerospace Raises $91 Million To Get New Rocket Engine Ready And Begin Scaling
- HII Adds Halimar To Romulus USV Production Network
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Wednesday, July 8, 2026
- Trump Will ‘Consider’ Turkey Rejoining F-35 Program, Says U.S. Will Lift Sanctions
- Lockheed, Rheinmetall Sign Agreement To Work On ATACMS Co-Production In Germany
- Zelenskyy: Ukrainian Drones Responsible For Most Russian Deaths And Destroyed Equipment
- Aurelius, Rheinmetall Partner On Ground Robot-Based Laser Drone Defense
- GAO Shows More Orca XLUUV Delays, Points To Better Choices For DIU CAMP XLUUV
- HII Nabs Contract To Extend Lionfish Small UUV Production
- BAE Gets $16 Million DoD Investment To Expand U.S. Rad Hardened Chips
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Tuesday, July 7, 2026
- USAF Solicits Rapid Prototyping Of Supersonic, Ground Launched Counter Air Missile
- GAO: Nuclear Modernization Programs Show Mixed Progress
- Lockheed Martin To Acquire ASW Technology Developer Ultra Maritime For $3.5 Billion
- Congressional Marks So Far Contain Full Funding For DARC, Despite Program Struggles
- AV’s New C-UAS Deal Begins With $80 Million Titan Order To Air Force Global Strike Command
- Ondas Acquires DZYNE, Adding Long Range UAS, More C-UAS, And Launched Effects
- AARGM-ER Delays Push IOC To September 2026, GAO Says
- BWXT Completes Precision Components Group Acquisition
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Monday, July 6, 2026
- Defense Watch: E-7 Challenges, T-AGS(X) RFI, Ukraine Biz News, Saronic Testing,
- Coast Guard Finalizes $3.3 Billion In Arctic Security Cutter Contracts With Bollinger And Rauma
- Drone Challenge Program Selects 19 Vendors To Compete In Second Gauntlet
- Navy Re-Issues RFI For Longer Anti-Radiation Missile
- USAF Point Defense Battle Lab Wants Performance Data On C-sUAS
- AM General Details JLTV A2 Ramp Up To Full-Rate Production, 12-Month Shift In Fielding To Early ‘27
- Ukraine And European Union Discussing Drone Deal, As Kamikaze Drones Hit Russian Supply Lines
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Thursday, July 2, 2026
- Hegseth Establishes New Czar To Oversee Pentagon’s Unmanned Systems Work
- SDA, RCO Missions Staying Within Portfolio Acquisition Executives, Space Force Official Says
- Army Awards $3 Billion Deal To Lockheed For Sentinel A4 Radar Production
- Auriga Space Introduces Hypersonic Materials Testing; Notches First Customer
- Private Equity Firm Arcline Investment To Acquire Avantus Aerospace Group
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Wednesday, July 1, 2026
- Duffey: F-47 “At the Cutting Edge of Technology” and Government, Industry Collaboration
- House Heads For Recess Without Moving On NDAA After Procedural Vote Fails
- Army Rapidly Boosting UAS Component Production At Tobyhanna As It Moves Beyond SkyFoundry
- Bipartisan Group Of House Members Introduce U.S.-Ukrainian Co-Production Bill For Unmanned Systems
- Pentagon Office Of Strategic Capital Expanding, Focusing On Loans Between $1 Billion And $5 Billion
- UK Replaces Plans For Future Destroyer With Drone Controller Ships
- Canada’s Dominion Dynamics Raises $100 Million To Scale C2 System, Collaborative Drone
- Space Force Command Operationally Accepts Satellite Jammer
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Tuesday, June 30, 2026
- Rocket Lab’s End-to-End Vision Comes Into Focus With ‘Transformative’ Iridium Deal
- Projected NGAL Wingspan And Carriage Fall Within Those Of C-5 And C-17
- Overland Nabs $20 Million Award To Produce Autonomous Resupply Vehicles
- Will $4 Billion For SB-AMTI/Space Data Network Backbone In Supplemental Reduce Or Add To Planned Funding For Systems In Reconciliation?
- Honeywell Aerospace Begins Trading On Nasdaq
- RTX Nabs $1.1 Billion Mod For Nearly 2,000 Sidewinder Missiles
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Monday, June 29, 2026
- Defense Watch: PAC-3 Plant, Quantum Tech Investment, Military Labs Review, ULTV Order
- House Appropriators ‘Concerned’ With JLTV A2 Delays, Shift Funds For Marines’ Second Supplier Effort
- OMB Director Calls For Fifth Public Shipyard, Doubles Down On Foreign Shipbuilding
- PACAF Evaluating Boeing MQ-28 Ghost Bat In Valiant Shield
- U.S. AFRICOM Experimenting With ‘Zone Defense’ Concept For Countering Drones
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Friday, June 26, 2026
- House Appropriators Approve $1.07 Trillion FY ‘27 Defense Bill Amid Reconciliation Uncertainty
- Lockheed Secures $8.4 Billion PrSM Ceiling Increase To Support Production Boost Framework
- USAF Considering EO/IR Upgrade for MH-139A
- House Appropriators Uncertain Navy Will Award F/A-XX Contract By August
- NNSA introduces AI flight test vehicle
- Longtime Space Force senior heads to Nuclear Weapons Center
- Mitsubishi Electric Contracts MDA Space for Digital Payload for Japanese Defense Satellite
- Capella Prepares to Validate Mynaric Optical Terminal on Latest SAR Satellite
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Thursday, June 25, 2026
- White House’s Supplemental Request Seeks $67.1B For Iran War Costs, Including $21B For Munitions
- House Appropriators Concerned With ‘Risky’ Reconciliation Approach To Fund Munitions, F-35 Plans
- Lockheed Martin Nabs $35 Billion THAAD Contract For Framework Agreement
- Space Force Awards Boeing $2 Billion MUOS Service Life Extension Contract
- House Appropriators Add Restrictions And Reporting Requirement To Battleship, Reject Cut
- $300 Million for FAMM Pulled Forward By House Appropriators
- Lawmakers Push Shipbuilding Accountability And Submarine Reports In House Appropriations Bill
- BAE Systems to Build Buses for Vantor’s Vantage Imaging Satellites