Lockheed Martin [LMT] said on Monday it has delivered its production unit 100-kW-range High Energy Laser and Integrated Optical-dazzler with Surveillance (HELIOS) to the Navy for installment on a destroyer later this year and said it has additional capability beyond the initial requirements. ...
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Update the No-Fly List. Following the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol by a mob of angry citizens wrongly believing that President Trump was the victim of a stolen election, House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) wants some new names added to the U.S. government’s ...
In this monthly column, Defense Daily highlights individuals from across the government, industry and academia whose efforts contribute daily to national defense, from the program managers to the human resource leaders, to the engineers and logistics officers. Jon Rambeau is the vice president ...
France signed Letter of Offer and Acceptance (LOA) to buy three E-2D Advanced Hawkeye (AHE) aircraft for the U.S. Navy worth up to $2 billion on Dec. 2, the Navy said Tuesday. The LOA comes after the State Department previously approved the Foreign Military Sale to France last July (Defense Daly, ...
General Dynamics’ Bath Iron Works (BIW) and the U.S. Navy completed builder’s trials on the future Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USS Daniel Inouye on Dec. 19. The company previously announced the start of the trials on Dec. 16 (Defense Daily, Dec. 18). The trials entailed a series of ...
Defense budgets and sales next year will remain “relatively” stable and defense spending worldwide will increase in the low single digits—surpassing $2 trillion—amid rising geopolitical tensions, the auditing and consulting firm Deloitte says in its annual outlook for the aerospace and ...
The final version of the 2021 defense policy bill puts the brakes on funding a wider layered missile defense system without additional reports and cuts Aegis funds requested for the effort. The administration requested $815 million in research and development funds to look at using Aegis ballistic ...
The U.S. government authorized arms sales amounting to over $175 billion in fiscal year 2020, a 2.8 percent increase the previous year at $170 billion, officials said Friday. These sales numbers are the combined total of implemented Foreign Military Sales (FMS) cases and Direct Commercial Sales ...
The Secretary of the Navy on Wednesday announced U.S. Fleet Forces Command is being renamed U.S. Atlantic Fleet, in part, to focus on countering Russia. Testifying before the Senate Armed Services Readiness and Management Support subcommittee, Secretary of the Navy Kenneth Braithwaite argued this ...
Pentagon acquisition chief Ellen Lord said on Nov. 18 that she has a few things left on her priorities plate in the last two months of the Trump administration, including continuing to educate the defense industry and DoD acquisition workforce on the rewrite of the DoD 5000 regulations to speed ...