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The Navy issued a Jan. 6 Request for Information (RFI) notice in an effort to find out the commercial availability of building a non-developmental landing ship at a U.S. shipyard. […]

In observance of the national day of mourning for former President Carter, Defense Daily will not publish an issue on Jan. 9. Your next issue will be dated Jan. 13. […]

The pace at which Lockheed Martin [LMT] and an industry-government team went from contract award to a successful flight-test last December of a missile defense system based on Guam in […]

Sierra Nevada Corporation is cleared to move ahead on work as the lead integrator for the Army’s next-generation aerial intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) jet after L3Harris’ [LHX] protest of […]

During a Monday interview with the conservative radio show host Hugh Hewitt, Trump praised his nominee for Secretary of the Navy and hinted at vague plans to use allies to […]

In a recent interview, President-Elect Trump criticized problems in the Navy’s Constellation-class frigate program, attributing design change issues to the Biden administration. According to a transcript of the interview with […]

Northrop Grumman [NOC] said on Monday that it has finished building and testing the company’s Protected Tactical SATCOM Rapid Prototype (PTS-P) payload and has delivered it to the company’s Gilbert, […]

The U.S. Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center (AFNWC) at Kirtland AFB, N.M., may extend planned, Boeing [BA] sustainment work for the B61-12 to the B61-13, which the company is developing. […]

BWX Technologies [BWXT] last week completed its $100 million acquisition of a specialty materials business of L3Harris Technologies [LHX] that is the sole provider of depleted uranium to the U.S. […]

The Army has selected BAE Systems for its project to develop a new 155mm wheeled self-propelled howitzer-based air defense system, called the Multi-Domain Artillery Cannon (MDAC), capable of firing hypervelocity […]