Defense Daily Archive
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Tuesday, July 22, 2025
Volume 307 // Issue 13- HASC NDAA Requires JROC Certification Before Army Can Divest Extended Range Gray Eagles
- Booz Allen Triples Venture Funding Commitment To $300 Million
- U.S. OKs Potential $620 Million Naval Strike Missile Coastal Defense System Deal With Bulgaria
- Rune Technologies, Software Developer For Comprehensive Logistics, Raises $24 Million
- L3Harris and BAE Systems to Work Under $300 Million Italian Air Force Electronic Attack Contract
- DIU, Partners Select Finalists For Low-Cost Sensing Counter-Drone Challenge
- Philly Shipyard Outlines Hanwha’s Improvements, Workforce Plans
- House Appropriations Bill That Funds NNSA Clears Committee, Moves to Full House
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Monday, July 21, 2025
Volume 307 // Issue 12- Defense Watch: Guetlein Confirmed, Comet Testing, New F-35 PEO
- Electronic Warfare Testing Demonstrating Warfighters Need Options For Drone Communications
- Anduril-Led Team Nabs $99.6 Million Army Deal To Deliver NGC2 Prototype Architecture
- L3Harris R-GPS Prototype Review Aided by NTS-3 Payload
- York Space Systems To Acquire Global Ground SatCom Company ATLAS Space
- L3Harris Unveils New Red And Green Wolf Aerial Munitions
- DoD, Partners Demonstrate Beyond Line-Of-Sight Drone Cargo Flights In National Airspace
- House Passes $831.5 Billion FY ‘26 Defense Spending Bill
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Friday, July 18, 2025
Volume 307 // Issue 11- Acceleration of LRSO Proposed By Senate Defense Authorizers
- Hadrian Raises $260 Million For New Factory As It Dials Up For Defense
- Trump Admin Says House Defense Spending Bill’s F/A-XX Increase Risks Delaying ‘Higher Priority’ F-47
- Bussiere Would Become Second AFGSC Head to Serve as USAF Vice Chief
- Airbus Teams with Kratos on XQ-58A for German Air Force
- Hanwha Looks To Boost Philly Shipyard’s Annual Output To Six-Plus Ships, Add Navy Vessels
- L3Harris Set For Major Expansion Of Large Rocket Motor Production Facilities
- Senate Authorizes Highest Limit Yet for NNSA At $26.87 billion
- BWXT Awarded $2.6 Billion In Naval Nuclear Reactor Parts Biz
- Epirus Nabs Army Deal For Upgraded IFPC-HPM Systems, Eyes Oklahoma To Expand Production
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Thursday, July 17, 2025
Volume 307 // Issue 10- SASC’s NDAA Topline Boost Supports Billions More For DDG-51, Virginia-Class Sub, Sentinel ICBM
- SASC NDAA Backs Army’s Plan To Wind Down JLTV, Boosts Marine Corps’ Buy To 224 Vehicles
- Initial Operational Capability By End of Fiscal 2033 for Sentinel, SASC Says
- HASC Approves FY ‘26 NDAA, Adds Increases For Virginia-Class Sub, DDG-51, Ukraine Aid
- Anduril Successfully Flight Testing Barracuda Missile Variant For Army Program
- Scientific Systems Enters Autonomous sUSV Market With Software-Defined Solution
- Chariot Defense, Offering Power Management At The Edge, Exits Stealth
- Firestorm Labs Raises $47 Million With Help From Lockheed, Booz Allen To Scale Manufacturing
- More Muscle Behind Base and Shelter Hardening Needed, Boozman Says
- Globalstar Enters CRADA With US Army to Evaluate Devices
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Wednesday, July 16, 2025
Volume 307 // Issue 9- HASC Adds Measures To NDAA Seeking More F-47, F/A-XX Details, Blocking E-7A Cut
- House Armed Services Committee Wants UAS Office Reporting To Deputy Defense Secretary
- Army 25th Infantry Division Switching Out Howitzers for HIMARS
- HASC Bill Would Make TacSRT a ‘Program of Record’
- Navy Used BALTOPS Exercise To Demonstrate USV Tactics, Evaluating Vessels
- Anduril Successfully Flight Testing Barracuda Missile Variant For Army Program
- Accelerate HACM Production Ramp, HASC Advises USAF
- House Armed Services Passes NDAA Measures on DoD, NNSA
- Austal Delivers Last Independence-Variant LCS To The Navy
- Startup Developing Electromagnetic Launch System For Hypersonic Testing Nabs Seed Funding
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Tuesday, July 15, 2025
Volume 307 // Issue 9- HASC Backs Army’s ATI Plans, While NDAA Draft Directs More Details On Proposed Cuts
- Saronic, Vigor Marine Partner Around Support For Autonomous Vessels At Scale
- HASC Releases NDAA Text With Nuclear Energy Working Group, Two-Site Pits
- DoD AI Office Awards Frontier AI Contracts For Workflow Needs
- Saildrone Envisions European Expansion After Baltic Sea Exercises
- Trump: NATO To Purchase ‘Billions’ In U.S. Weapons For Ukraine, Including Patriots
- BREAKING: Noem Terminates Eastern Shipbuilding’s Work For Third And Fourth OPCs
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Monday, July 14, 2025
Volume 307 // Issue 8- Defense Watch: IAM Contract Negotiations, Dutch V-Bats, B-2 Unit Costs, Starship Propulsion
- HASC, SASC NDAAs Differ On Topline By Billions, Agree On Pursuing Major Acquisition Reforms
- SASC Wants The Joint Back In Joint C-sUAS Office With Transfer To OSD
- Authorizers Support New LSM Plan, Impose Vessel Construction Manager Strategy
- Coast Guard Seeks Sources For Interim Long-Range C2 Plane That Also Serves DHS Chief
- Congressionally Established DoD Progress Payment Pilot Program On Hold
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Friday, July 11, 2025
Volume 307 // Issue 7- Hegseth Directs Widespread Use Of Expendable Drones By End Of 2026
- Bollinger Modifying Vessel As Landing Platform For Rocket Lab’s Neutron Launch Vehicle
- Army’s Goal To Build 100,000 155mm Rounds Per Month Delayed To Mid-2026
- Massive Ordnance Penetrator Modification Program Delayed By Build of Surrogate Targets
- CENTCOM Chief Wants $150 Million To Acquire Technology To Test And Evaluate
- Classification Remains Barrier to DoD Space Information Sharing with Allies
- Booz Allen Invests In Cybersecurity Firm Focused On Machine Identity
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Thursday, July 10, 2025
Volume 307 // Issue 6- Army’s $4.3 Billion FY ‘26 Unfunded List Requests More For Munitions, Small Drones
- Missiles and Munitions Top USAF Unfunded Priorities List
- USSF MILNET Block II to Link With SDA Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture
- Sixth-Generation Fighter And Munitions Top The Navy’s Unfunded Priority List
- House Panel Continues Probe on Counter-Drone Efforts at U.S. Bases
- DoD Spending On Startups Doubles But Remains Scant Overall, SVDG Report Says
- Defense Department Seeks Public Input On Trump’s Acquisition Reform Order
- Unmanned Systems Top Indo-Pacific Command’s $11.9 Billion Unfunded Priorities List
- DIU Wants Low-Cost UUVs For Kinetic, ISR Effects
- DARPA Taps Bell To Build X-Plane Demonstrator, Aims For Flight Testing In 2028
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Wednesday, July 9, 2025
Volume 307 // Issue 5- Second Ford-Class Carrier Running Another 20 Months Late, Third Adds 10 More Months In Budget Books
- Army Aims To Deliver 10,000 Small Drones Over A Year That Each Cost Under $2,000
- Group of Retired USAF Flags Urge Continuation of Wedgetail, Increased F-35 Buy
- Trump Confirms U.S. Has Resumed Sending ‘Primarily’ Defensive Weapons To Ukraine
- Lockheed Martin Helping Havoc AI To Speed USV Development
- Imagery Support for Ukraine in “Early Access” Agreement by BlackSky
- SDA Names Dr. Gurpartap Sandhoo as New Deputy Director
- Maxar Nabs $205 Million In International Contracts For Defense And Intel Capabilities