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Beck: DIU ‘Not Taking on Projects Anymore Where There’s Not a Pathway to Scale’
The Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) has personnel at combatant commands and other forward locations to aid in fielding front-line equipment requests, DIU Director Doug Beck said last Friday. “The...
Palantir’s CTO Sankar Issues Treatise On Reforming DoD Acquisition
A top Palantir executive last week offered a sweeping set of recommendations—he calls them theses—for transforming the way the Defense Departments buys weapons and systems, and how U.S. indu...
DoD Releases Plan Detailing ‘Concrete Actions,’ Billions In Investment For Strategy To Boost Industrial Base
The Pentagon on Tuesday released the implementation plan for its first-ever National Defense Industrial Strategy (NDIS), detailing “concrete actions” to bolster the industrial base such as in...
Avio Considering Sites for U.S. Solid Rocket Motor Plant
Avio USA, a subsidiary of Italy’s Avio S.p.A, is considering sites for Avio’s first solid rocket motor (SRM) plant in the United States. The company said that it has picked
https://www.defensedaily.com/avio-considering-sites-for-u-s-solid-rocket-motor-plant/navy-usmc/
DIU Seeks AI-Based Business Intelligence Platform For Budget Planning And Execution
The Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) on Monday issued a solicitation seeking commercial solutions that can quickly collect budget and contract data from across an enterprise to enhance program manag...
More Than $2 Billion in UAE/Saudi Arabia Foreign Arms Sales Approved by U.S. State Department
As the U.S. tries to deter Iran and its proxies, the U.S. State Department has approved more than $2 billion in foreign military sales (FMS) to Saudi Arabia and the
Pentagon May Award 70 AI Contracts Under Advana Recompete
The Pentagon is requesting input from industry, as DoD seeks a new Advancing Analytics (Advana) “1.2” solicitation, which may result in 50-70 contracts worth up to $15 billion over 10
Second Front’s Game Warden Available on ICMP, Company Says
Wilmington, Del.-based Second Front Systems said on Monday that its Game Warden DevSecOps platform to approve commercial software up to top secret classification is available on Amazon Web Servic...
DoD Awards $45 Million To Support Production Of Printed Circuit Boards, Forgings
The Defense Department’s industrial base office this week awarded two contracts worth a combined $45 million to increase domestic production of printed circuit boards and heavy forging in suppo...
DoD Strategic Capital Office Opens Loan Application Process To Strengthen Supply Chain
The Defense Department’s Office of Strategic Capital (OSC) on Monday released its first Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA), kicking off the application process for companies seeking to scale...
RTX’s Pratt & Whitney Receives $1.3 Billion F135 Engine Core Upgrade Contract
RTX‘s Pratt & Whitney has received a more than $1.3 billion cost plus incentive fee contract for the F135 Engine Core Upgrade (ECU) for the Lockheed Martin F-35
Pentagon To Go After Counter-Drone Tech In Next Replicator Rapid Fielding Effort
The next iteration of the Pentagon’s Replicator initiative to rapidly field new technology will focus on capabilities for defeating small drone threats, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has confi...
No Comment from ODNI on Maximizing Commercial Imagery/Analytics, GAO Says
More than two years ago, the Government Accountability Office advised that the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) ensure that the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA)...
Pentagon to ‘Monitor and Assess’ Boeing Performance
The Pentagon said on Friday that it is examining what steps to take to ensure quality control on Boeing aircraft for the military services as a result of the
https://www.defensedaily.com/pentagon-to-monitor-and-assess-boeing-performance/navy-usmc/
Images from Space for Maven Depend on Analysis of Tiny Field of View
Images from space of objects and human patterns of behavior depend on the analysis of tiny fields of view to provide targeting insights to military commanders under Maven, Vice Adm.
Kelly and Cramer Found Senate Defense Modernization Caucus
Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.), chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee’s airland panel, and Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.) have formed the Senate Defense Modernization Caucus as a counterpart to t...
https://www.defensedaily.com/kelly-and-cramer-found-senate-defense-modernization-caucus/congress/
U.S. Space Force Space Systems Command Says It’s Using $4...n Congressional Add to Improve COCOM Use of Commercial Imagery
The U.S. Space Force Space Systems Command (USSF SSC) said that it is using a $40 million congressional add for Tactical, Surveillance, Reconnaissance, and Tracking (TacSRT) in fiscal 2024 to
NGA/U.S. Space Force Joint Mission Management Center ‘First Step’ in DoD/IC/Allied Imagery Integration
While analysts with intelligence experience have pointed to gaps in the integration of National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA)-provided commercial imagery into the daily workflows of combat...
U.S. Space Force Commercial Space Office Considering ‘Automated Network Orchestration’
U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command’s Commercial Satellite Communications (SATCOM) Office (CSCO)–a part of the Commercial Space Office in Chantilly, Va., under the leadership of Col. R...
U.S. Central Command Operations Official Outlines Expansive Uses Of Maven Smart System
A shared battlespace awareness solution that was focused initially on helping warfighting commanders find and engage targets is being used in a wide number of operational applications, an officia...
DARPA Selects Accelerators To Help Commercialize Agency-Funded Technologies
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) last Thursday selected five entities across the U.S. to help it commercialize and scale early-stage technologies the agency funds within the ...
U.S. Announces $125 Million Security Assistance Package For Ukraine
The Biden administration last Friday announced a new $125 million security assistance package for Ukraine that will drawdown from existing Defense Department stocks. The Presidential Drawdown Aut...
Hicks: Speed in Affirming Systems Meet Command Needs Key in Replicator
As industry awaits the debut of military service program of record requests for Replicator in the upcoming fiscal 2026 budget, Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks said on Wednesday that accel...
Auterion, ModalAI, Neros Selected To Prototype sUAS Solutions In Contested EMI Space
The Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) on Wednesday said it has selected solutions from three companies to demonstrate and test commercial dual-use technologies in small drones to be able to operate
F-35 Program Aims for Initial Inventory by Next December
The F-35 Joint Program Office (JPO) said that it wants to have an initial inventory by next December on the way to a clean audit in 2028. Lockheed Martin
https://www.defensedaily.com/f-35-program-aims-for-initial-inventory-by-next-december/air-force/
DoD Proposes Cybersecurity Compliance Rule For Contractors
The Defense Department on Thursday published proposed changes to federal acquisition regulations that would phase in three years contractor compliance with certain cybersecurity measures. The pro...
https://www.defensedaily.com/dod-proposes-cybersecurity-compliance-rule-for-contractors/cyber/
Ukrainian Ask–2.5 Million Drones, DoD IG Says
Ukrainian Armed Forces’ (UAF) demand for drones in the country’s effort to turn back Russian forces has grown, the U.S.-led Security Assistance Group-Ukraine (SAG-U) has told the Pentagon Ins...
https://www.defensedaily.com/ukrainian-ask-2-5-million-drones-dod-ig-says/pentagon/
DoD Loan Office Plans On First Funding Availability Notice This Year
A relatively new Defense Department office charged with developing a loan program to aid companies developing key technologies that are part of the supply chain but are frequently starved of
Hicks Lauds RDER Effort In Speeding Program Transitions
New approaches to quickly assessing joint warfighting capabilities are proving themselves and enabling more rapid acquisitions of systems, Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks said on Wedne...
DIU Solicits To Refresh Blue UAS Roster
The Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) on Monday released a solicitation for an upcoming prize challenge for vendors to potentially have their unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) and related capabilities ...
https://www.defensedaily.com/diu-solicits-to-refresh-blue-uas-roster/unmanned-systems/
National Defense Strategy Panel Urges Reforms, Lifting Spending Cap To Avoid ‘Shift In China’s Favor’
The commission tasked with reviewing the Biden administration’s National Defense Strategy (NDS) has called for removing the debt limit deal’s spending cap and boosting defense investments in ...
Pentagon Overvalued Weapons Aid To Ukraine By Another $2 Billion, GAO Finds
The Pentagon has discovered it overvalued weapons aid provided to Ukraine by another $2 billion, according to a new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report. The disclosure is part of a
DoD Strategic Capital Office Wants Feedback From Lenders, Companies On Loan Program
The Defense Department’s new Office of Strategic Capital (OSC) on Wednesday issued two Requests for Information (RFI) to financial institutions and companies seeking feedback related to a loan ...
Maritime Domain Awareness, Communications Still Key In Latest DoD Arctic Strategy
Enhancing maritime domain awareness and communications capabilities remain hallmarks of Defense Department’s updated Arctic strategy, which also maintains the “monitor-and-respond” approach...
Culture Within DoD Remains Biggest Obstacle To Success For Startups, DIU Chief Says
The way more non-traditional defense companies will grow their business with the Defense Department is for more of them to be successful in doing so, which will provide more courage
DoD To Issue Classified Plan Later This Summer To Implement Industrial Base Strategy
The Defense Department last Friday released an interim report on actions it has taken so far to implement its recent National Defense Industrial Strategy (NDIS) and plans later this summer
DoD Review Of Sentinel Finds Further Cost Increases, Schedule Delays; Program To Be Restructured
The Air Force’s next-generation ICBM will continue but will be restructured amid further cost increases and schedule delays and the decision in 2020 to initiate the engineering and manufacturin...
National Security Reform Program Established by Stimson Center
The Stimson Center has established the National Security Reform Program as a vehicle to expose “waste in the military budget while offering pragmatic, forward-thinking perspectives on security ...
Higher Prices for 19 B-21s to Follow 21 in Five Lot LRIP Could Help Northrop Grumman Stave Off Losses on Program
The U.S. Air Force and Northrop Grumman are negotiating prices for 19 B-21 Raider stealth bombers to follow the 21 scheduled for five lots of low-rate initial production (LRIP),
DIU Plans Dozens Of Solicitations In Coming Months To Spend FY ’24 funds
The Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) on Thursday announced the strategic allocation for its $983 million fiscal year 2024 budget and said it plans to issue around two dozen solicitations in
GAO: DoD Backing of ‘Innovation’ and Fast Fielding Yet to Pay Dividends
While the Pentagon has backed innovative approaches, such as Middle Tier of Acquisition (MTA) and commercial paths, to help speed fielding, the DoD efforts thus far are insufficient, the Governme...
Senate Authorizers Want DoD to Lay Out C-UAS Strategy
The Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) wants the Pentagon to lay out a counter unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) strategy and to establish a counter UAS (c-UAS) task force. SASC would
https://www.defensedaily.com/senate-authorizers-want-dod-to-lay-out-c-uas-strategy/unmanned-systems/
Route Planning for Ukrainian Drones Key to Avoiding Russian Jamming
Nearly two and a half years after Russia’s latest invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022, the countries are vying to see whose “observe, orient, decide and act” cycle–the late
U.S. Army TITAN and MSS to Complement Each Other
The U.S. Army’s Tactical Intelligence Targeting Access Node (TITAN), the service’s new intelligence ground station, and the Maven Smart System (MSS) “absolutely complement each other,” Sh...
Will Novel Solid Rocket Propellant Mixing Technology Make the DoD Cut?
On Sept 18 last year, Rep Jay Obernolte (R-Calif.) posted on X that he and Rep. Ken Calvert (R-Calif.), the chairman of the House Appropriations Committee’s defense panel, had recently
Garamendi Highlights Upcoming July 24 Hearing on Nuclear Weapon Cost Overruns
Overturning the nuclear triad concept and reducing funding significantly for the U.S. Navy’s Columbia-class ballistic missile submarines and the U.S. Air Force B-21 Raider stealth bomber and Se...
House Defense Appropriators Again Generous With Funding Recommendation For DIU
The House panel with responsibility for funding the Pentagon on Tuesday released its proposed defense budget, providing more than $1.3 billion to the Defense Department’s unit charged with help...
Defense Innovation Unit/USAF Pick Four Companies for Weapon Prototypes
While companies like RTX , Lockheed Martin , General Dynamics and Boeing remain top DoD weapon heavyweights, the Pentagon is taking a step to move beyond the traditional
DoD Announces New Approach To Own, Leverage, And Scale Data And Analytics
The Defense Department’s Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO) on Thursday said it is launching a new effort that encompasses the acquisition of the infrastructure and data it...
DIU Adds Three More UAS To Approved Commercial List
The Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) on Thursday said it has added three additional unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) from Anduril Industries, Freefly Systems, and Skydio to its list of approved comme...
https://www.defensedaily.com/diu-adds-three-more-uas-to-approved-commercial-list/unmanned-systems/