Defense Daily

By Calvin Biesecker Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff has postponed a decision on certifying the cost benefits of new radiation detection portal monitors based on the concerns of Customs and […]

By Calvin Biesecker Raytheon [RTN] yesterday was selected by the United Kingdom’s Home Office to receive a $1.3 billion contract to develop and install a border security system that will […]

By Michael Sirak The Air Force is interested in launching a program early next decade to develop a 2,000-pound boosted penetrator munition as an enhanced means of defeating hardened and […]

By George Lobsenz Lockheed Martin [LMT], the giant defense contractor, announced this week it is jumping into the red-hot solar energy market through a joint venture with Starwood Energy Group […]

General Dynamics [GD] yesterday said it has acquired Mediaware International Pty Ltd.,a leading developer of real-time full-motion compressed digital video processing software and systems for defense, intelligence and commercial customers. […]

By Geoff Fein The Navy’s efforts to field mine countermeasure (MCM) systems developed for the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) are facing challenges, including whether testing the MCM systems on other […]

The Army’s major modernization program, the Future Combat Systems (FCS) will again participate in the Air Force Joint Expeditionary Force Experiment (JEFX) 2008 as it did last year, according to […]

By Jen DiMascio Democrats planned to vote on a bridge fund for the war in Iraq that includes $1.6 billion to fight improvised explosive devices yesterday afternoon but at press […]

Lockheed Martin [LMT] was awarded a $2.3 million foreign military sales contract to continue concept and preliminary design work on the proposed Israeli Navy’s Littoral Combat Ship (LCS-I), the company […]