Defense Daily
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ArmyArmy To Equip Three Tank Brigades With Trophy Missile Shields
The Army’s fiscal 2019 budget request includes funding to equip three Armored Brigade Combat Teams worth of Abrams tanks with Trophy active protection systems (APS) capable of knocking down enemy […]
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Business/FinancialL3 Increases Dividend
L3 Technologies [LLL] on Monday announced a nickel increase in its quarterly dividend payment to 80 cents per share, marking the 14th consecutive year of increasing its annual dividend. The […]
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IIOT CyberCyber Still A Top Concern In Intelligence Community’s Global Threat Assessment
Cyber threats against the U.S. remain a top concern of the intelligence community, according to an annual threat assessment, which identifies Russia, China, Iran and North Korea as posing the […]
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ArmyAviation Pays For Ground Combat Vehicles And Munitions As Army Preps For High-End War
Ground combat systems have overtaken aviation as the most expensive Army procurement portfolio, mainly to reinforce a return to fighting high-end decisive conflict in Europe and elsewhere. Aviation procurement took […]
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Tuesday, February 13, 2018
- Defense Budget Request Grows 10 Percent Over Current CR Levels To $716 Billion
- General Dynamics Cites Scale, Customers, Capabilities, Profits In Deal For CSRA
- Air Force Aims To Develop New Sensor Fusion System Instead Of Replacing JSTARS Surveillance Plane
- Navy 2019 Budget Request Has Modest Shipbuilding Increase, Extends Life Of Cruisers
- DHS Seeks $47.5 Billion In FY ’19, Including Funding For New Polar Icebreaker
- Proposed FY ’19 DoD Budget Looks To Improve Cyber Mission Force Capabilities, Network Protection Programs
- European Commission Okays Northrop Grumman Acquisition Of Orbital ATK
- White House Requests 20 Percent Increase for NNSA Weapons Programs in FY ’19
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Navy/USMCNavy 2019 Budget Request Has Modest Shipbuilding Increase, Extends Life Of Cruisers
This article was updated to reflect aircraft procurement. The Navy requested $21.9 billion to build 10 ships in the FY ’19 president’s budget request released today, a modest increase over […]
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Homeland SecurityWhite House Requests 20 Percent Increase for NNSA Weapons Programs in FY ’19
The Trump administration on Monday proposed what would amount to a $2-billion-a-year raise for the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) — a roughly $15-billion fiscal 2019 budget request that would […]
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CyberProposed FY ’19 DoD Budget Looks To Improve Cyber Mission Force Capabilities, Network Protection Programs
Faced with growing adversarial cyber threats, Department of Defense officials are looking to improve the capabilities of its Cyber Mission Forces (CMF) and boost several network protection programs with its […]
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Air ForceAir Force Aims To Develop New Sensor Fusion System Instead Of Replacing JSTARS Surveillance Plane
The U.S. Air Force is dropping plans to build a new ground-surveillance aircraft, opting instead to begin developing an advanced battle management system that can fuse threat information from various […]
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InternationalEuropean Commission Okays Northrop Grumman Acquisition Of Orbital ATK
The European Commission has approved Northrop Grumman’s [NOC] pending $7.8 billion acquisition of Orbital ATK [OA], moving the deal one step closer to completion. Northrop Grumman said it is still […]