Defense Daily
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Friday, July 10, 2026
- Army Launches Low-Cost Interceptor Competition, With Demos Planned For This Fall
- Pentagon Taps Lockheed, nLight For New Effort To Rapidly Field High-Energy Laser Weapons
- SOCOM to Buy Leidos AGM-190A for Small Cruise Missile Program
- Development Of Autonomous Targeting For Bumblebee Drone Progressing But Work To Do
- DIU And Air Force Collaborating On MQ-9A Follow-On
- CBO Says Upfront Costs To Protect Military Installations From Drones Between $1 Million And $74 Million
- DIU And Navy Team Up For Modular Payload Prize Challenge
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Friday, July 10, 2026
- Army Launches Low-Cost Interceptor Competition, With Demos Planned For This Fall
- Pentagon Taps Lockheed, nLight For New Effort To Rapidly Field High-Energy Laser Weapons
- SOCOM to Buy Leidos AGM-190A for Small Cruise Missile Program
- Development Of Autonomous Targeting For Bumblebee Drone Progressing But Work To Do
- DIU And Air Force Collaborating On MQ-9A Follow-On
- CBO Says Upfront Costs To Protect Military Installations From Drones Between $1 Million And $74 Million
- DIU And Navy Team Up For Modular Payload Prize Challenge
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Advanced / Transformational TechnologyPentagon Taps Lockheed, nLight For New Effort To Rapidly Field High-Energy Laser Weapons
The Pentagon announced on Thursday it awarded Lockheed Martin [LMT] and nLight Defense [LASR] a pair of deals to work on rapidly transitioning high-energy laser weapon systems into “field-ready, production-oriented […]
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WeaponsSOCOM to Buy Leidos AGM-190A for Small Cruise Missile Program
U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) has awarded Leidos [LDOS] a more than $27.2 million fixed price incentive contract for procurement of the company’s AGM-190A “Havoc Spear” Small Cruise Missile (SCM) […]
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Navy/USMCDIU And Navy Team Up For Modular Payload Prize Challenge
The Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) this week opened a new multiphase prize challenge with a $5 million prize pool, called Specular MIST, aimed at speeding development of containerized payloads for […]
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ArmyArmy Launches Low-Cost Interceptor Competition, With Demos Planned For This Fall
The Army is officially accepting industry’s proposals for its low-cost interceptor competition, with plans to conduct demonstrations of all-up rounds and critical components this fall before selecting winners in December. […]
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Unmanned SystemsCBO Says Upfront Costs To Protect Military Installations From Drones Between $1 Million And $74 Million
The initial costs to acquire and deploy counter-small unmanned aircraft system (C-sUAS) defenses at individual Defense Department installations are estimated at between $1.2 million and $73.6 million depending on the […]
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Air ForceDIU And Air Force Collaborating On MQ-9A Follow-On
The Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) and Air Force are collaborating on a project to replace the General Atomics MQ-9A Reaper which, depending on payload, can cost up to $50 million […]
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Unmanned SystemsDevelopment Of Autonomous Targeting For Bumblebee Drone Progressing But Work To Do
FORT BENNING, Ga.—The task force overseeing the Pentagon’s counter-unmanned aircraft system (C-UAS) efforts is demonstrating progress with new software designed to enable expendable Bumblebee drones to autonomously detect, interdict and […]
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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