Defense Daily
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Friday, October 2, 2026
- Navy Awards RTX $24.4 Billion Contract To Accelerate SM-6 Production
- Army Picks Initial 30 Finalists For Low-Cost Interceptor Demonstrations
- Blackbeard Flight Tested On Super Hornet
- Neros Says Gauntlet II Order For Drones And Explosive Payloads Is $100 Million
- USAF Looks for Long-Range Communications Drones Deployable from AFSOC Fixed Wing Platforms
- W93/Mk7 Enters Engineering and Manufacturing Development Phase
- Domestic Supply Chain Still Needs To Catch Up To Meet Growing Energy Demands, Officials Say
- DIU And Navy Award Three MCM Modernization Prize Winners
- Varda Launches Two Hypersonic Reentry Capsules On SpaceX Transporter-18 Mission
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Navy/USMCNavy Awards RTX $24.4 Billion Contract To Accelerate SM-6 Production
The Defense Department on Thursday announced a new five-year $24.4 billion Navy award to RTX’s [RTX] Raytheon business unit to accelerate production of the ship-based Standard Missile (SM)-6 anti-air and […]
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Navy/USMCBlackbeard Flight Tested On Super Hornet
The Navy recently successfully finished a flight test of the Castelion Blackbeard air-longed hypersonic missile from an F/A-18E/F Super Hornet at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Md., another step in […]
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Friday, October 2, 2026
- Navy Awards RTX $24.4 Billion Contract To Accelerate SM-6 Production
- Army Picks Initial 30 Finalists For Low-Cost Interceptor Demonstrations
- USAF Looks for Long-Range Communications Drones Deployable from AFSOC Fixed Wing Platforms
- Varda Launches Two Hypersonic Reentry Capsules On SpaceX Transporter-18 Mission
- Domestic Supply Chain Still Needs To Catch Up To Meet Growing Energy Demands, Officials Say
- Blackbeard Flight Tested On Super Hornet
- W93/Mk7 Enters Engineering and Manufacturing Development Phase
- Neros Says Gauntlet II Order For Drones And Explosive Payloads Is $100 Million
- DIU And Navy Award Three MCM Modernization Prize Winners
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Navy/USMCDIU And Navy Award Three MCM Modernization Prize Winners
The Defense Department’s Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) and Department of the Navy Direct Reporting Portfolio Manager for Robotic and Autonomous Systems (DRPM RAS) on Thursday announced BeeX, AEVEX Corp.’s [AVEX] […]
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ArmyArmy Picks Initial 30 Finalists For Low-Cost Interceptor Demonstrations
The Army has picked the initial 30 finalists for its Low-Cost Interceptor (LCI) competition, with those vendors now set to demonstrate their all-up rounds and offerings for critical components this […]
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SpaceVarda Launches Two Hypersonic Reentry Capsules On SpaceX Transporter-18 Mission
Varda Space Industries on Thursday said two of its space capsules that will return to Earth next month at hypersonic speeds were launched aboard a SpaceX [SPCX] Falcon 9 rocket […]
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Unmanned SystemsNeros Says Gauntlet II Order For Drones And Explosive Payloads Is $100 Million
Neros on Wednesday said the Pentagon’s Drone Dominance Program (DDP) has placed a $100 million-plus order for 14,000 of the company’s Archer first person view (FPV) drones and related explosive […]
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Air ForceUSAF Looks for Long-Range Communications Drones Deployable from AFSOC Fixed Wing Platforms
The U.S. Air Force is looking for companies able to provide already developed, small, attritable communications drones as part of a mesh network for use against adversaries with advanced electronic […]
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Nuclear ModernizationW93/Mk7 Enters Engineering and Manufacturing Development Phase
The Navy’s W93/Mk7 nuclear warhead and reentry system has entered the Engineering and Manufacturing Development (EMD) phase after achieving Milestone B, advancing the first new U.S. nuclear warhead program initiated […]