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Dems’ Big Night Set To Reshape Top Defense Committee Spots, As Key GOP’ers Knocked Off

Democrats’ sweeping victories in Tuesday’s midterms, taking back control of the House and Senate, are set to reshape key spots atop defense committees, to include House Armed Services panels and […]


Key Defense Committee Members Face Tight Midterm Races, Including HASC GOP’ers In Virginia

As the mid-term elections near with polls showing an increasing likelihood of a switch in majority control in the House and potentially the Senate, three Virginia Republicans on the House […]

Bipartisan Push in Senate to Hasten Export of 155 mm, GMLRS, HIMARS for Ukraine

A small, bipartisan group of senators is backing the Fast Tracking European Investment in Ukraine’s Defense Act, S. 5175, to hasten the export of allied buys of U.S. munitions for […]


Rep. Himes Signals Increased Contractor Oversight, if Democrats Win House

Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn.), the ranking member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, plans to increase the committee’s contractor oversight if the Democrats win control of the House […]



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Army

Army Officially Puts Out Call For Industry’s MTC-Tracked Solutions To Replace M109

The Army has officially put out a call for industry’s solutions to meet its new tracked artillery modernization requirement, as it aims to find a replacement for the M109 self-propelled […]



Navy/USMC

Cao Picks Rucker To Lead PAE Maritime

Acting Secretary of the Navy Hung Cao on Wednesday announced he was appointing Rear Adm. Jonathan Rucker to be the next Portfolio Acquisition Executive (PAEO) Maritime, which is responsible for […]



Air Force

USAF Looks to Advance STITCHES With Upcoming Contract to Lockheed Martin

The U.S. Air Force is looking to award Lockheed Martin [LMT] a sole source contract to advance the System-of-Systems Technology Integration Tool Chain for Heterogeneous Electronic Systems (STITCHES). “The effort […]



Business/Financial

Leidos Touts Supplier Alignment As It Readies To Produce New Cruise Missiles

Leidos [LDOS] in October hosted a supplier summit to align its partners on plans to begin scaling production of two new cruise missiles in development for Defense Department customers, the […]



Space

DIU Looks to Award Deorbit Demonstration Contract Next Month

The Pentagon is to make a downselect decision next month for a company’s orbital demonstration under the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU)/Space Development Agency (SDA) Deorbit-as-a-Service (DaaS) program after a preliminary […]