L3Harris And Sierra Space Receive $1.75 Billion For SDA Tranche 3, Tracking Layer
L3Harris Technologies [LHX] is receiving $955 million and Sierra Space $798 million under fixed price Other Transaction Authority (OTA) rapid prototyping contracts for an expedited launch of Tranche 3, Tracking […]
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House Heads For Recess Without Moving On NDAA After Procedural Vote Fails
The House will leave for the Fourth of July recess without moving forward on its $1.15 trillion fiscal year 2027 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), with a procedural vote to […]
Bipartisan Group Of House Members Introduce U.S.-Ukrainian Co-Production Bill For Unmanned Systems
A bipartisan group of six House legislators have introduced the Strategic Unmanned Systems Partnership Act–a bill to improve drone collaboration between the U.S. and Ukraine. Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas), the […]
House Appropriators ‘Concerned’ With JLTV A2 Delays, Shift Funds For Marines’ Second Supplier Effort
House appropriators have said they’re “seriously concerned” with Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV) A2 delays, as their fiscal year 2027 defense spending bill shifts funds to support the Marine Corps’ […]
House Appropriators Approve $1.07 Trillion FY ‘27 Defense Bill Amid Reconciliation Uncertainty
The House Appropriations Committee has approved its $1.07 trillion fiscal year 2027 defense spending bill, advancing a bill with a historic topline while uncertainty lingers over Congress’ next step to […]
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Media Gaggle With Lt. Col. Alex Morse, Capability Manager for Mobile Solutions at Joint Interagency Task Force-401
During this press event at Fort Benning, Ga., on July 8, Lt. Col. Morse discussed evaluations of autonomous targeting software being developed by Perennial Autonomy, which is supplying the Bumblebee […]
Navy/USMC
DIU And Navy Team Up For Modular Payload Prize Challenge
The Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) this week opened a new multiphase prize challenge with a $5 million prize pool, called Specular MIST, aimed at speeding development of containerized payloads for […]
Air Force
LITENING Large Aperture Pod, In USAF Operational Testing, May Aid C-UAS, Northrop Grumman Official Says
Northrop Grumman [NOC] believes its LITENING Large Aperture (LA) pod undergoing operational test with the Air Force will be able to contribute to the defeat of adversary drones, a company […]
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Pentagon Invests $25 Million With ReElement To Process Recycled Magnets
The Defense Department on Monday said it awarded ReElement Technologies $25 million to expand processing of recycled rare earth magnets and other materials for use in domestic production of critical […]
Space
Space Force NSSL Phase 3, Lane 1 Field Now At Seven With Two New Companies Added
The field of companies eligible for National Security Space Launch (NSSL) Phase 3, Lane 1 awards is now at seven after the U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command (SSC) awarded […]
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Reform Opportunities Hiding in the Pentagon’s Reorganization
By Joseph Gagnard, Defense Opinion Writer. The news media wrote up January’s Pentagon reorganization as another org-chart shuffle. But read alongside the Department of Defense’s $20 billion budget request for […]
The Solution for Fixing a Command and Control Failure
By Robbin Laird, Defense Opinion Writer. Operation Epic Fury highlighted a structural command and control failure. Namely, that U.S.- and Israel-led coalition was fighting a single battle from multiple unconnected air […]
What Operation Epic Fury Revealed About Air and Missile Defense
By Robbin Laird, Defense Opinion Writer. Somewhere over Kuwait during the dense barrage phase of Operation Epic Fury, Kuwaiti air defense operators tracking a cluttered radar picture identified a flight […]
Shielding U.S. Forces from Spies that Use Location Tracking
By Brett Harrison and Shaun Moore, Defense Opinion Writers. Americans serving abroad often carry devices that can share precise location data across multiple commercial apps, services and data-broker systems, frequently […]
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