The Senate Armed Services Committee’s draft FY 2021 defense authorization bill is fencing off half the funds the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) requested for a layered homeland missile defense system until it receives a detailed report. The Defense Department’s FY ’21 budget request set out a ...
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The Senate Armed Services Committee’s draft of the FY ’21 defense authorization bill pushes the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) to develop and produce an interim Ground-Based Interceptor (GBI) by 2026. “Not later than 30 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense, ...
The House Armed Services Seapower and Projection Forces subcommittee’s mark of the FY 2021 defense authorization bill would limit the Navy's speed in producing unmanned vessels and limit retiring vessels as planned. The subcommittee would prohibit procuring any large unmanned surface vessels ...
DHS Awards Perspecta $112 Million for Continued Data Center Support The Department of Homeland Security has awarded Perspecta [PRSP] a potential $112 million contract to continue to provide contractor owned and operated data storage and management services to one of the department’s data centers ...
The Defense Department is working with the government of Japan to address its concerns after it suspended the planned two Aegis Ashore system deployments due to technical and cost issues. “We’re working very closely with them to resolve concerns and issues,” Missile Defense Agency director ...
The Pentagon released a new Defense Space Strategy June 17, laying out four lines of effort meant to maintain U.S. superiority in the space domain and counteract ever-growing threats by Russia and China. An unclassified summary and fact sheet of the strategy was released Wednesday as the U.S. ...
Japan decided to suspend the deployment of the two Aegis Ashore missile defense systems due the technical and cost issues, Defense Minister Taro Kono said Monday. “In view of the cost and [more] time [needed] for the deployment, we will halt the process,” local Kyodo News reported Kono told ...
The USS Fitzgerald (DDG-62) left a Huntington Ingalls Industries [HII] shipyard on June 13, almost exactly three years after a deadly collision off the coast of Japan. DDG-62 collided with a merchant ship in June 2017, leading to the death of seven sailors (Defense Daily, June 18, 2017). It was ...
The Army awarded Lockheed Martin [LMT] a $1 billion modification on June 10 for Patriot Advanced Capability (PAC)-3 missiles services and equipment. The award covers incidental services, hardware, facilities, equipment, and all technical, planning, management, manufacturing, and testing efforts to ...
Space Force. More than 8,500 active-duty airmen within 13 eligible career fields volunteered to become the first members to transfer into the new Space Force. Approximately 6,000 members will be selected for transfer, the Space Force said in a Tuesday press release. Volunteers will receive a ...