Defense Daily Archive
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Monday, August 25, 2025
- Defense Watch: LPD-18 Fire, Super Hornet Crash, Ursa Orders, Coast Guard PEOs
- Army Seeks ‘Air-Ground Littoral’ Tech For 4th ID Experimentation, Focusing On NGC2 Integration
- Amentum Wants to Hire 1,200 RGNext Workers at Sites for Space Force Range Contract
- FAA to Take Public Comments on Impact of Allowing Starship Launches from Kennedy Space Center
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Friday, August 22, 2025
- Army Plans To Include ‘Right To Repair’ Language In Common Tactical Truck Contract
- PDW Opens New Drone Factory In Huntsville, Aims To Build 60,000 UAS Annually
- USAF Should Leverage U.S. Army/Marine Corps’ Systems for Base Defense, Study Says
- L3Harris Expansion of Florida Plant to Focus on Golden Dome
- BAE Systems Awarded RF Sensor Contract for LRASM Through 2030
- Navy Awards Small Contract To 3D Printer Supplier In Support Of Maritime Industrial Base
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Thursday, August 21, 2025
- Coast Guard Stands Up PEO For Robotics And Autonomous Systems
- AV Delivers New P550 UAS To Inform Army’s Long Range Reconnaissance Program
- Sikorsky’s Nabs $43 Million Black Hawk Upgrade Deal For ‘Digital Backbone,’ Launched Effects Work
- Anduril Receiving Air Force Contract for Rocket Cargo Design Study
- Navy Starts Researching New Small And Large Offshore Support Vessels For Tests And Training
- ‘Security Guarantees’ for Ukraine May Require Dozens of Aircraft
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Wednesday, August 20, 2025
- X-Bow To Develop Solid Rocket Motor For GMLRS To Bolster Supplier Base
- Allvin Latest Casualty in Involuntary Departures of Top Officers
- Airbus Flight Tests Unmanned Helicopter With Shield AI’s Autonomy Pilot
- Navy Set To Award Next Generation Logistics Ship Concept Refinement Contract
- As Space Force Plans Zeroing of Fiscal 2026 Funds for Tranche 3, Transport Layer, Service Plans Sole-Source Award to GD for Ground Segment of Tracking Layer
- General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Acquires Assets Of Engine Technology Company
- DoE Deputy Secretary ‘Concerned,’ Orders Plutonium Special Study in Letter to NNSA
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Tuesday, August 19, 2025
- Army Tests LTAMDS Secondary Radar Array In 9th Live Fire Test
- Space Force Association Warns of ‘Federal Overreach’ That May Result from Executive Order on Commercial Space Launch
- DoD R&E Office Awards More APFIT Contracts
- Voyager Technologies Invests In Software Company Latent AI
- Army Pursuing New Unmanned Ground Commercial Robotic Vehicle Effort
- Lockheed Martin and Polish MRO to Upgrade Country’s 48 F-16s to Block 70/72 Standard
- Grid Aero, Startup Developing Autonomous Cargo Aircraft, Exits Stealth
- RGNext Drops Court Protest of $4 Billion SFRC Award
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Monday, August 18, 2025
- Defense Watch: New Icebreaker, DAF Cyber Ops, GEOINT Award, More AMPVs
- Marine Corps Set To Award Neros Contract For 8,000 Small, Affordable FPV Drones
- Navy Plans To Deploy USV In Carrier Strike Group By End Of 2026
- Lockheed’s New GMLRS Deal Supports Boosting Production To 14,000 Rockets Per Year
- DoD Materiel Readiness ‘In Precarious Position,’ Govini Scorecard Says
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Friday, August 15, 2025
- Army Awards Lockheed Martin $4.24 Billion Deal For GMLRS Production
- U.S. OKs Potential $500 Million HIMARS Deal With Bahrain
- Navy Steps Closer To LSM Block I As It Procures Bollinger And Damen Data Rights
- Merlin Labs to Go Public Next Year Through SPAC
- Army Issues Solicitation Notice To ‘Rapidly Procure’ Launched Effects For Fielding In ‘26
- Los Alamos Elevator in Plutonium Facility Faces Technical Failures, DNFSB Says
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Thursday, August 14, 2025
- HELIOS Testing At Full Power For Months But Navy Leaning Towards Containerized Lasers, Lockheed Martin Executive Says
- Army Looks To Begin Replacing Gray Eagles With New STOL/VTOL UAS In FY ‘28
- DARPA Christens Prototype USV, Finishing Testing Ahead of Demo
- Raytheon Nabs $259 Million Contract For SM-2 Block IIICU All Up Rounds
- Bruno: First Military Launch of Vulcan Marks “New Era in National Space Security”
- Ursa Major Static Fires New Extended Range Rocket Motor For APKWS
- Energy Department Offering $1 Billion To Bolster U.S. Critical Minerals And Materials
- State Department Approves $346 Million Munitions Request by Nigeria
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Wednesday, August 13, 2025
- Army Looks To Grow Air and Missile Defense Forces By 30 Percent In Eight Years
- After FTUAS Cut, Army Looks To Field Brigade UAS In FY ‘26 To Replace Shadow Drones
- Leonardo DRS Demonstrates Counter-Drone Package On Unmanned Surface Vessel
- USAF Looking Into AI Parts Management Tools for U-2 Aircraft
- Rocket Lab Adds Payload Capability With Acquisition Of Geost
- BlackSky Heralds New Two-Year Early Access Agreement with International Buyer for 35 Centimeter Imagery
- V2X To Acquire QinetiQ’s Federal IT Services Business
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Tuesday, August 12, 2025
- Northrop Grumman Wins Navy’s Competition For 21-Inch Solid Rocket Motor
- ULA Foresees Significant Ramp Up of Vulcan Launches in Next Two Years
- Air Force Preparing Supplemental EIS for Sentinel, Scraps Three of Four Town Halls This Month
- Army’s Incoming 2040 Air And Missile Defense Strategy Due Within Months
- Navy Begins Looking Into Vessel Construction Manager For First LSM Amphib
- Mack Defense Nabs $221.8 Million Army Deal For More M917A3 Heavy Dump Trucks
- U.S. OKs Potential $160 Million Deal With Canada For 60 AM General-Built JLTVs
- Umbra Offering Satellite Component Hardware To Space Market
- Senators ‘Still Talking’ Topline Near $60 billion For DOE Funding Bill