Defense Daily
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CongressUpdated Defense Reconciliation Bill Adds Industrial Base Support, Reduces Border Support Funds
The chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee on Wednesday released an update to the $150 billion defense portion of the wide-ranging reconciliation bill, which includes adding funds for industrial […]
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Advanced / Transformational TechnologyStartup Developing Reusable Satellite Bus Emerges From Stealth
Lux Aeterna on Wednesday emerged from stealth and announced a $4 million pre-seed funding round that will go toward a demonstration mission in 2027 for launching a satellite that will […]
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Business/FinancialAeroVironment Posts Strong Fourth Quarter, Sees More Of the Same In New Year
AeroVironment [AVAV] on Tuesday evening reported strong fourth quarter results driven by record revenue and a handsome bottom-line. Sales in the quarter grew 40 percent to a record $275.1 million […]
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SpaceNATO Releases its First Commercial Space Strategy
NATO released its Commercial Space Strategy on Tuesday, aimed at integrating commercial solutions more flexibly, and creating more business opportunities while simplifying how space companies engage with NATO. The “Commercial Space […]
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Air Force$250 Million for Penetrating Munitions in DoD Reconciliation Bill Takes on New Light After Strikes on Iran
Last year, in their versions of an FY 2025 defense bill, Senate and House appropriators proposed reductions for the U.S. Air Force’s Hard and Deeply Buried Target Defeat System (HDBTDS) […]
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SpaceSpaceWERX Announces Winners For Sustained Maneuver Challenge
The Space Force’s innovation arm last week said it has awarded contracts to 10 companies worth a combined $19 million under its Sustained Space Maneuver (SSM) Challenge that will lead […]
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Intelligence CommunityMaxar Releases Geospatial Monitoring Solution For Predictive Intelligence
Maxar Intelligence on Wednesday announced a new solution suite that applies artificial intelligence-enabled analytics to geospatial imagery for persistent global monitoring of fixed sites and vessels on the open sea […]
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BudgetHouse Appropriators Approve $66 Billion DHS Bill For FY ‘26
Following a lengthy session Tuesday, the House Appropriations Committee approved its version of the Fiscal Year 2026 Homeland Security Appropriations Act, sending the $66.4 billion bill to the full House […]
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Air ForceSAIC Unseats KBR as Air Force TENCAP HOPE Contractor
Science Applications International Corp. [SAIC] has unseated KBR [KBR] as the contractor for the Air Force Tactical Exploitation of National Capabilities Hyper-Innovative Operational Prototype Engineering (AF TENCAP HOPE) program run […]
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CongressCotton Plugs Bill to Increase COCOM Counter-Drone Authority
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), said that U.S. adversaries may target the nation’s bases domestically and abroad with attack drones, hidden in […]