Defense Daily
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Defense Watch: Joint Integrated Fires Exercise, Bomber Task Force Model,
Parsons Award. Parsons Corporation said on June 16 it has received a four-year, $169.5 million deal from the Army Corps of Engineers to design and build a new Ammonium Nitrate […]
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Uncategorized
SASC Member Says B61 Aboard Aircraft Carrier Better Option Than SLCM-N
Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.), in a recent hearing, said an aircraft carrying a B61 bomb will be a “much reduced cost” alternative to the nuclear-armed sea-launched cruise missile aboard a […]
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Uncategorized
EnergySec Grilled on Cutting National Lab Funding, Says ‘Open’ To Expanding
Members of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee expressed their disapproval Wednesday to Secretary of Energy Chris Wright on a proposed 11 percent cut in the Department of Energy’s […]
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Advanced / Transformational Technology
Northrop Grumman Unveils Testbed For Autonomy Software
Northrop Grumman [NOC] last week unveiled Beacon, what it calls a “testbed ecosystem” that brings together its flight hardware with autonomy software solutions from other vendors to evaluate and quickly […]
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Navy/USMC
Austal USA Launches First Steel Ship, the Navajo-class T-ATS 11
Austal USA this month launched its first steel ship, the future USNS Billy Frank Jr. (T-ATS 11). T-ATS 11 is the first of five Towing, Salvage and Rescue Ship ships […]
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Army
Army Chief Says Organic Industrial Base Could Manufacture Drones And Related Parts
Parts of the Army’s organic industrial base (OIB) would be better used for scaling production of drones and their parts than some of the things currently being produced, the service’s […]
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Space
Space Force Meadowlands Development in Parallel with Production For L3Harris
Building each U.S. Space Force Counter Communications System (CCS) 10.3 Meadowlands takes a year or two for L3Harris Technologies [LHX] at its Palm Bay, Fla., plant, and several such systems […]
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Air Force
USAF Mechanics Take On Aircraft Born Five Decades Before They Were
BARKSDALE AFB, La.–Every 450 flight hours, or two years, an early 1960s U.S. Air Force B-52H bomber by Boeing [BA] will come here for 23 days of phased, “bumper to […]
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Air Force
B-52Hs May Have Role, If Iran Strikes Ordered
BARKSDALE AFB, La.–As the United States and Iran remain at loggerheads over the Iranian nuclear program, satellite photos this week have shown four B-52H bombers at the U.S.-U.K. base on […]
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Air Force
Lead Wing for LRSO is 2nd Bomb Wing
BARKSDALE AFB, La.–The U.S. Air Force’s 2nd Bomb Wing here is to be the lead wing for acceptance of the RTX [RTX] AGM-181 Long Range Standoff (LRSO) nuclear cruise missile, […]