Defense Daily
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ArmyAV To Provide New Switchblade 400 Anti-Armor Loitering Munition For Army’s LASSO Effort
AeroVironment [AVAV] announced Monday the Army has selected its new Switchblade 400 loitering munition to support the Low-Altitude Stalking and Strike Ordnance (LASSO) program. Work on the LASSO program will […]
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Intelligence CommunityNGA Has Rapid Capabilities Office As A Front Door To Commercial Innovation
AURORA, Colo.—To speed its use of an ever increasing amount of commercially-developed, cutting-edge technologies for geospatial intelligence and artificial intelligence, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) established a Rapid Capabilities Office […]
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InternationalU.S. OKs Over $8.6 Billion In Expedited Arms Sales To Several Middle East Partners
The U.S. on Friday evening approved over $8.6 billion in expedited arms sales to several Middle East partners, to include a $4 billion deal to replenish Qatar’s interceptors for the […]
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Air Force2028 Pegged As Delivery Date for VC-25B; USAF Says Former Qatari “Bridge” Aircraft Will Roll Out This Summer
The U.S. Air Force is pegging delivery of the first Boeing [BA] VC-25B presidential aircraft in 2028, and a heavily modified 747-8i that formerly carried the emir of Qatar will […]
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ArmyArmy Picks Carnegie Robotics To Be Autonomy Provider For Heavy Logistics Trucks
The Army has picked Carnegie Robotics as the winner of its program to integrate autonomous driving capability on heavy logistics trucks, with an aim to issue prototypes to a unit […]
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Defense WatchDefense Watch: DoD AI Deals, P-8 Upgrade, Drone and Counter-Drone News
AI/Classified Networks. The Pentagon announced on May 1 it has entered into agreements with SpaceX, OpenAI, Google, NVIDIA, Reflection, Microsoft and Amazon Web Services to leverage their advanced artificial intelligence […]
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Unmanned SystemsTextron Nabs DIU Award For Small USVs In Support Navy Experiment
Textron’s [TXT] Textron Systems segment last Thursday said it received a contract from the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) to deliver multiple TSUNAMI unmanned surface vessels (USVs) in support of a […]
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SpaceOrbital Warfare Systems Top Priority for Space Chief Nominee
Fielding more systems for orbital warfare has been the top priority of the White House’s nominee to succeed Chief of Space Operations Gen. B. Chance Saltzman. The Trump administration on […]
