1+ day, 6+ hour ago  (150+ words) Editor's Note. In observance of Juneteenth, Defense Daily will not publish on Friday, June 19. Senate defense authorizers are seeking more info from the Army on its plans for scaling and deploying small drone capabilities citing concern with the service's current…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago  (233+ words) Defense Daily Senate defense authorizers are seeking more info from the Army on its plans for scaling and deploying small drone capabilities citing concern with the service's current "fragmented and insufficient" approach. A measure included in the Senate Armed Services…...

2+ day, 5+ hour ago  (245+ words) The Air Force has chosen both the FQ-42 by General Atomics-Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) and the FQ-44 by Anduril Industries to continue into. .. The Air Force has chosen both the FQ-42 A by General Atomics-Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) and the…...

3+ day, 6+ hour ago  (228+ words) Defense Daily President Donald Trump on Monday invoked a decades old law that gives the federal government emergency authorities to control domestic industries, in this case enabling the defense industrial base around munitions to collaborate in ways that might otherwise…...

4+ day, 5+ hour ago  (235+ words) Defense Daily The Pentagon"s chief technology officer has said the department may need to make "tradeoffs" on certain capability priorities if Congress doesn"t pass a reconciliation with $350 billion in requested defense spending, to potentially include prioritizing cheaper autonomous…...

4+ day, 9+ hour ago  (227+ words) Defense Daily Honeywell's [HON] board on Monday set June 29 as the date to complete the spin-off of the company's $17. 5 billion aerospace business, part of a planned split into several public companies (Defense Daily, Feb. 6, 2025). "Today's announcement clears the path to…...

1+ week, 6+ hour ago  (194+ words) Supply Chain Order. M-tron industries, a supplier of radio frequency components, said it received a $6. 8 million follow-on order from a "rising" Defense Department customer in support of several C-UAS radar programs. The order includes oven-controlled crystal oscillators, M-tron said. The…...

1+ week, 7+ hour ago  (226+ words) Defense Daily Defense materials company ATI [ATI] announced on June 11 it has signed a new five-year strategic material supply agreement with nuclear fuel company BWX Technologies [BWXT], extending a long-standing partnership supporting the U. S. Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program through fiscal 2030. The…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (228+ words) Defense Daily General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) and Germany's INTEC Group are to collaborate to offer GA-ASI's Gambit series of Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) for the German CCA competition. The Bundeswehr aims to field CCAs by 2029. Other likely competitors…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (226+ words) Defense Daily Shortly following its first flight, Pyka on Thursday said it recently demonstrated autonomous low-altitude parachute airdrops using its fixed-wing unmanned Drop Ship cargo aircraft that is designed for long-range military logistics operations in contested environments. Pyka said the…...