Defense Daily
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Congress
HASC’s Crow, Wittman Suggest Pushing More Procurement Authority To COCOMs
A bipartisan pair of House Armed Services Committee members said Wednesday that the Pentagon’s combatant commands should be given more authority to directly go and procure innovative technologies that can […]
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Air Force
CCA Builders Believe Commercial Engines Will Reap Big Savings
AURORA, Colo.—General Atomics and Anduril Industries believe the use of commercial engines for their Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) will lead to significant savings, as the U.S. Air Force moves toward […]
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Navy/USMC
SASC Chair ‘Encouraged’ By Trump’s Plan For New White House Shipbuilding Office
The chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee said Wednesday he’s “encouraged” by President Trump’s plan to establish a new office in the White House dedicated to bolstering domestic shipbuilding. […]
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Business/Financial
AeroVironment Swings To Loss In Third Quarter; Cali Fires Clip Sales
A series of wildfires and windstorms around Los Angeles in January helped trim AeroVironment’s [AVAV] sales in its fiscal year 2025 third quarter and the company swung to a loss […]
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Congress
OMB, DHS On Board With Coast Guard’s Goal Of $20 Billion Budget, Official Says
The Coast Guard’s goal of a $20 billion annual budget has received a positive reception from the Trump administration, the service’s acting operations head said on Wednesday. In discussions with […]
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Homeland Security
Design Nearly Complete On Polar Security Cutter, Full Rate Production Still Ahead
Bollinger Shipyards has completed more than 90 percent of the design of the Coast Guard’s first heavy polar icebreaker in 50 years and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will […]
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Space
NTS-3 May Launch This Year on Vulcan Centaur
AURORA, Colo.–More than two years after the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) had planned to launch the L3Harris Technologies‘ [LHX] Navigation Technology Satellite-3 (NTS-3), it may get into orbit this […]
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Advanced / Transformational Technology
Thunderforge Award Goes To Scale AI, Bringing Artificial Intelligence To Military Planning
The Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) has awarded Scale AI a contract to deliver generative artificial intelligence tools to assist the U.S. military with data driven, custom operational and theater-level planning, […]
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Space
U.S. Space Force Expects GPS OCX Fielding Decision This Year
AURORA, Colo.–The U.S. Space Force expects Ready to Transition to Operations (RTO) and fielding decisions this year on RTX‘s [RTX] Global Positioning System Next-Generation Operational Control System (GPS OCX). “What […]
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Advanced / Transformational Technology
Epirus Raises $250 Million To Boost Leonidas Production, Strengthen Supply Base
Defense technology startup Epirus, which has developed a high energy system designed to thwart threats from small drones at relatively low cost, has raised $250 million in a new funding […]
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