Defense Daily
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Wednesday, January 15, 2025
- Navy Needs USV Ecosystem With Surge Capacity And Adaptability Cycle Ahead Of Adversaries, Admiral Says
- SecDef Nom Hegseth Spars With Dems, Offers Acquisition Reform View At Contentious Hearing
- Still Unhappy With Progress On Directed Energy Weapons, SWO Boss Wants More Land Based Testing To Speed Use On Ships
- Navy Examining Ship Self-Protection Measures
- Lockheed Martin Demonstrates First Live Track Using SPY-7 Radar For Spanish Frigate
- Commerce Department To Provide $70 Million To MACOM To Support Chips For Defense, Telecom
- Navy Surface Warfare Director Confirms Merging Medium And Large USV
- BlackSky Wins 1-Year Extension for EOCL Contract with the NRO
- Navy Names Two Carriers After Presidents Clinton And Bush, Future SSNs and Third SSBN
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Wednesday, January 15, 2025
- Navy Needs USV Ecosystem With Surge Capacity And Adaptability Cycle Ahead Of Adversaries, Admiral Says
- SecDef Nom Hegseth Spars With Dems, Offers Acquisition Reform View At Contentious Hearing
- Still Unhappy With Progress On Directed Energy Weapons, SWO Boss Wants More Land Based Testing To Speed Use On Ships
- Lockheed Martin Demonstrates First Live Track Using SPY-7 Radar For Spanish Frigate
- Navy Examining Ship Self-Protection Measures
- Navy Surface Warfare Director Confirms Merging Medium And Large USV
- Commerce Department To Provide $70 Million To MACOM To Support Chips For Defense, Telecom
- BlackSky Wins 1-Year Extension for EOCL Contract with the NRO
- Navy Names Two Carriers After Presidents Clinton And Bush, Future SSNs and Third SSBN
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Navy/USMC
Navy Needs USV Ecosystem With Surge Capacity And Adaptability Cycle Ahead Of Adversaries, Admiral Says
Ukraine’s successful use of unmanned surface vessels (USVs) to bottle up Russia’s Black Sea fleet combined with exercises and experimentation with these technologies by the U.S. Navy shows that USVs […]
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Navy/USMC
Navy Surface Warfare Director Confirms Merging Medium And Large USV
The Navy’s director of Surface Warfare confirmed this week the service is shifting from separate medium and large unmanned surface vessels to a single larger MUSV with both mission payloads […]
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Navy/USMC
Navy Names Two Carriers After Presidents Clinton And Bush, Future SSNs and Third SSBN
The Navy and Biden administration on Monday announced the names of the next two aircraft carriers, the third Columbia-class ballistic missile submarine (SSBN) and three Virginia-class attack submarines. President Joe […]
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Congress
SecDef Nom Hegseth Spars With Dems, Offers Acquisition Reform View At Contentious Hearing
At his confirmation hearing on Tuesday where he faced Democratic scrutiny over his sexual assault allegations and prior comments, Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth offered a view into his plans […]
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Space
BlackSky Wins 1-Year Extension for EOCL Contract with the NRO
BlackSky Technology won a one-year extension with the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) for the Electro-Optical Commercial Layer (EOCL) contract for its satellite imagery, the company said on Tuesday, adding the […]
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Unmanned Systems
Still Unhappy With Progress On Directed Energy Weapons, SWO Boss Wants More Land Based Testing To Speed Use On Ships
Laser and high-powered microwave systems are key to increasing magazine depth aboard ships to defend themselves and other assets, but the technologies are not progressing as fast as needed and […]
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Navy/USMC
Navy Examining Ship Self-Protection Measures
The U.S. Navy is examining the fielding of relatively inexpensive weapons, including projectiles and directed energy, to protect service ships at distance against missiles and drones–both of which have been […]
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International
Lockheed Martin Demonstrates First Live Track Using SPY-7 Radar For Spanish Frigate
Lockheed Martin [LMT] on Tuesday said it has successfully conducted the first live object tracking using the AN/SPY-7(V)2 radar the company is developing for Spain’s five-ship F-110 multi-mission frigate program. […]
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