Defense Daily
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Air ForceStudy: Drawdown, Budget Caps Have Harmed Every Sector Of Defense Industrial Base
Every sector of the defense industrial base has been hit by a decline in contracts first from the military drawdown from lengthy wars in the Middle East and Asia and […]
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SpaceRocket Lab’s Electron Rocket Reaches Orbit For First Time
Rocket Lab, one of several firms vying for a share of the burgeoning small-satellite launcher business, reached orbit and unleashed small satellites for the first time with its Electron rocket […]
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Monday, January 22, 2018
- Defense Watch
- In New Strategy, Mattis Redirects ‘More-Lethal’ Military Toward Great-Power Conflict
- Navy To Release 30-Year Shipbuilding Plan With FY19 Defense Budget, Brings Charges Against DDG Commanders
- DoD Prepares For Possible Shutdown As Congress Debates Funding
- State Department OK’s $6.5 Billion Sale Of 34 F-35s To Belgium
- GAO Rejects Leidos Protest Of DHS Biometric Database Award To Northrop Grumman
- Fitz Reaches Mississippi For Repairs, Navy Expects Two Years To Finish
- GAO Report: DoD Needs To Address New Aircraft Tracking System’s Cyber Risks
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Space Adviser. Deputy Defense Secretary Pat Shanahan will take over the duties of the principal defense space adviser on an “interim” basis, he wrote in a Jan. 17 memo to […]
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InternationalState Department OK’s $6.5 Billion Sale Of 34 F-35s To Belgium
The State Department approved a possible $6.5 billion Foreign Military Sale (FMS) to Belgium for 34 Conventional Take-off and Landing (CTOL) F-35A variants. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) told […]
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BudgetDoD Prepares For Possible Shutdown As Congress Debates Funding
The Department of Defense was bracing for a partial shutdown late Jan. 19 as Congress grappled with how to keep the government funded after a stopgap measure expires at midnight. […]
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CyberGAO Report: DoD Needs To Address New Aircraft Tracking System’s Cyber Risks
Department of Defense officials have yet to address known cyber security risks associated with a military aircraft tracking tool and have only two years before the system must be fully […]
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PentagonIn New Strategy, Mattis Redirects ‘More-Lethal’ Military Toward Great-Power Conflict
Defense Secretary Jim Mattis unveiled on Friday a strategy for sharpening the U.S. military’s competitive advantage against near-peer adversaries Russia and China by modernizing the force, strengthening alliances and building […]
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Navy/USMCNavy To Release 30-Year Shipbuilding Plan With FY19 Defense Budget, Brings Charges Against DDG Commanders
The Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) told Congress on Thursday that a new 30-year shipbuilding plan will be delivered to the legislature next month along with the Trump administration’s fiscal […]
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UncategorizedFitz Reaches Mississippi For Repairs, Navy Expects Two Years To Finish
The heavily damaged USS Fitzgerald (DDG-62) arrived in Pascagoula, Miss. on Jan. 19, where it will undergo repairs and upgrades at a Huntington Ingalls Industries’ [HII] shipyard. The ship, loaded aboard […]