Defense Daily

House appropriators on Sunday evening released a proposed funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security that would hack 35 percent from the Coast Guard’s troubled Offshore Patrol Cutter (OPC) […]

The Department of Energy’s prime contractor at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina has turned to a former DoE executive with more than 35 years in nuclear management to […]

By next year, the U.S. Air Force has wanted to retire its U-2 Dragon Lady surveillance aircraft by Lockheed Martin [LMT], yet the House Appropriations Committee’s defense panel wants to […]

President Trump last Friday directed the Defense Department to conduct a review of programs that could be replaced by drones. Within 90 days, the service secretaries are required to report […]

If the Navy procures  the fifth and sixth Ford-class aircraft carriers as a block buy, it could save taxpayers about $5 billion over buying them individually, the Navy’s top acquisition […]

EVENDALE, Ohio— As the Army explores a potential future version of its Precision Strike Missile (PrSM) capable of achieving hypersonic speeds, GE Aerospace [GE] has said its in-development dual-mode ramjet […]

Golden Dome Summit Axed. The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) on June 2 abruptly canceled an industry summit for the Golden Dome air and missile defense initiative. It was set to […]

The Coast Guard has some, but not enough, capacity for countering drone threats to the homeland from maritime approaches, the acting commandant of the service said last week. The Coast […]