Defense Daily Archive
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Monday, May 23, 2022
- Defense Watch: UKR Aid, Aerospike, Counter UAS Pilot, Aerojet Battle
- Lockheed Martin Will Likely Need to Speed Production to Meet 148 F-35 Delivery Goal This Year
- Navy: Reducing Super Hornet Life Extension Work Time To Improve Shortfall
- Next DHS Biometric Rally To Focus On Face Recognition In Small Groups
- Sen. King Says Biden’s Warning To Putin Last Summer Deterring Cyber-Attacks Now
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Friday, May 20, 2022
- New Air Force One Encountering Two- to Three-Year Delivery Delay
- F-35 Program Could Achieve Significant Sustainment Cost Savings, GAO Says
- House Committee Passes Cyber, China, CBP Safety Bills
- DHS Adds $450 Million, Extends Small Business Program Management Contract
- Plutonium Pit Master Sked Coming This Year; First W80-4 Cruise Missile Warhead Likely Late, NNSA Admin Testifies
- Heckl: Reduction Of 31 to 24 Amphibs Adds Risk, Mostly Outside Indo-Pacific Region
- Army, International Partners At EDGE22 Express Interest In Opportunities To Collab On FVL Development
- Cruiser Vicksburg Is Almost Done With Modernization, But Still Set For Decommissioning
- State Department Approves Potential $691 Million Deal With Egypt For TOW-2A Missiles
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Thursday, May 19, 2022
- USAF Moving to Organic Adversary Air Training at Nellis AFB
- Navy: Delay From LHA-9 To LHA-10 Will Increase Cost And Impact Industrial Base
- Army Cut Strategic Long Range Cannon S&T Project Due To Cost, Redundancy Concerns
- CBP Still Targeting FY ’23 For Dramatic Increase In Scanning Of Cars, Cargo At Ports Of Entry
- Uranium Processing Facility Will Be Eight Months Late, NNSA Says
- Launch Cost Reduction, Hybrid Space Architecture Drive Higher Risk Threshhold for Development of U.S. Military Space Systems
- Without Budget Increases, Finishing Checkpoint CT Acquisition Will Take Until 2036, Pekoske Says
- Plan To Get Plutonium-Pit Factories Back On Track Coming In ‘Early Fall,’ Official Tells Lawmakers
- Space Development Agency Director Tasks Industry for Cyber Solutions
- CACI Demonstrates Optical Intersatellite Links for DARPA, SDA
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Wednesday, May 18, 2022
- No Plans To Downgrade Army Futures Command Following Recent Memo, Wormuth Says
- GAO Finds Navy SIOP Dry Dock Costs Increased Over 400 Percent
- CISA Gaining Increasing Visibility Into Federal Networks, Official Says
- Pentagon Fiscal 2024 Budget May Lay Out Future Path for F-35 Engine
- Prototype ARRW Notches Hypersonic Testing Success, USAF Says
- Army Acquisition Exec Details Options For Accelerating Abrams Tank Deliveries To Poland
- House Passes Trio Of Homeland Security Bills
- LEO Operators and Manufacturers Wrestle with Supply Chain Cybersecurity
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Tuesday, May 17, 2022
- Big Civilian Nuke Sites Contract Canceled Amid Conflict of Interest Controversy
- Aerojet Rocketdyne Chief Says Dissident Chairman Openly Explored New CEO, Approached Leidos For Deal
- Army Advances New FVL Tech, Flies Largest ‘Wolf Pack’ Drone Swarm At EDGE22 Experiment
- Pappano Says Navy Evaluating Up To 5 Ohio SSBN Sub Extensions, Also SSGN Extensions
- Carlyle To Acquire ManTech For $4.2 Billion
- U.S. Space Force Evaluating Options for Incorporating Guard Units
- Raytheon, Kord’s Stryker-Mounted 50KW Laser Takes Out Mortars, Drones During Recent Army Tests
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Monday, May 16, 2022
- Defense Watch: HASC NDAA Schedule, R&E Reorg, Hypersonic Missiles
- CNO Argues Decommissioning Ships Goes To Fund Maximizing Weapons Production Lines
- Navy Informs Congress Of Nunn-McCurdy Cost Breach Tied To Cutting LCS ASW Modules
- USAF Plans to Iron Out Block 4 Problems Before Increasing F-35A Buy
- Space Force Offers Free Cyber Scanning to Commercial Satellite Vendors
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Friday, May 13, 2022
- CNO: Private Sub Shipyards Maintenance Work Over Cost And Schedule
- Raytheon Technologies’ New Venture Arm Invests In Hypersonic Aircraft Company Hermeus
- Columbia, Dreadnought Subs ‘Bounced Back’ From Faulty Missile Tubes, U.S. Admiral Says
- Pentagon IG Upholds Decision on Advised USSPACECOM Move, Yet Former SECAF Mum on Trump Meeting
- Inflation Adding Huge Costs To Coast Guard Shipbuilding, Operations And Sustainment
- MDA To Downselect Hypersonic Defense Competition
- Commercial Icebreaker Would Inform Requirements For Arctic Security Cutter, Schultz Says
- Prez, CEO of Prime Contractor For Big Civilian Nuclear Weapon Sites Retiring
- Hearing on Nuclear Weapons, Waste Budgets Canceled Amid Voting ‘Circus’ on House Floor
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Thursday, May 12, 2022
- BAE Systems Eyeing Expanded ACV Family Of Vehicles For Marines’ ARV, See ‘Significant Cost Savings’
- Marines To Use ESBs, EPFs, and Commercial Vessels Until LAW Ready
- In Recent DoD Counter-Drone Demo With HPM Systems, Vendors Turned In Varying Results
- Air Force Seeks Company Input on Planned KC-135 Upgrades
- SASC Chair Urges Swift Senate Passage Of New $40 Billion Ukraine Aid Supplemental
- Senate Committee Approves Adm. Fagan To Lead Coast Guard
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Wednesday, May 11, 2022
- Army Secretary Says Likely More Than A Year Before Javelin Stockpiles Are Replenished
- IVAS’ IOT&E Performance To Determine If Army Moves Forward With Program, Wormuth Says
- Following Latest Force Design 2030 Update, Berger Says Experiments Are Validating Marines’ Transformation
- Sen. Kelly Suggests MQ-9 Could Be of Use Against Higher Tech Adversaries
- BWXT Q1 Earnings Decline As Revenue Rises
- Most Federal Agencies Expect To Meet Deadline For Zero Trust Security Goals, Survey Finds
- U.S., European Union Attribute Commercial Satellite Attack To Russia
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Tuesday, May 10, 2022
- Lockheed Martin Aims To Double Javelin Production Up To 4,000 Missiles Per Year, CEO Says
- Sikorsky Prepared For FVL Production With Advanced Factory Tech, ‘Digital Thread’ Work, Officials Say
- Lockheed Martin Wants to Hire 5,000, Including 300 for F-16 Work in S.C.
- TSA Shortly Plans To Solicit For Next-Generation Identify Verification Device
- Navy Conducting Market Research On MEDUSA Mining UUV
- Palantir Forecasting At Least 30 Percent Growth In Coming Years