Saturday, December 7, 2024
SIMI VALLEY, CA -- House and Senate lawmakers have released a fiscal year 2025 defense authorization bill that would approve $895 billion for national defense, sticks to the spending cap mandated by the Fiscal Responsibility Act but includes funds for an additional Virginia-class submarine.
SIMI VALLEY, CA -- The Defense Department today announced five projects receiving funding from the Accelerate the Procurement and Fielding of Innovative Technologies (APFIT) program, making them the first to be selected in fiscal year 2025.
SIMI VALLEY, CA -- House Appropriations defense subcommittee Chairman Ken Calvert (R-CA) said today he believes the upcoming budget will be funded at levels mandated by the Fiscal Responsibility Act, though he hopes the Trump administration will be able to work with Congress to boost spending for fiscal year 2026.
LOS ANGELES -- Defense technology companies Palantir and Anduril announced today they are teaming up on artificial intelligence, joining their Maven and Lattice AI systems and launching a new consortium with plans to include other contractors.
The Army will receive the third version of its Common Sensor Payload for the MQ-1C Gray Eagle unmanned aerial system in June, the system’s product manager announced at a media day at Ft. Belvoir Tuesday. The latest iteration comes with a new, more precise targeting system for Coordinate Seeking Weapons.
NORFOLK, VA -- On a blustery December day at Naval Station Norfolk, sailors from the United States, United Kingdom and Australia were busy preparing a small fleet of robotic and unmanned undersea systems for two weeks of offshore experimentation intended to expand subsea and seabed warfare capabilities under AUKUS Pillar II.
SIMI VALLEY, CA -- Sen. Deb Fischer (R-NE), a senior Senate Armed Services Committee member, today urged executives from the nation's largest defense companies to identify cuts to their own military programs in preparation for the "Department of Government Efficiency" review set to be run by tech billionaires Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy at the behest of President-elect Trump.
Shipbuilder HII announced today that it will acquire metal fabrication facilities and equipment from South Carolina-based company W International.
Part of the Air Force's mobility fleet will be tapped to receive a fresh connectivity suite, dubbed the Global Transport Platform-as-a-Service, as early as the end of calendar year 2024 or spring 2025, Inside Defense has learned.
SIMI VALLEY, CA -- The Defense Department today announced five projects receiving funding from the Accelerate the Procurement and Fielding of Innovative Technologies (APFIT) program, making them the first to be selected in fiscal year 2025.
The Army will receive the third version of its Common Sensor Payload for the MQ-1C Gray Eagle unmanned aerial system in June, the system’s product manager announced at a media day at Ft. Belvoir Tuesday. The latest iteration comes with a new, more precise targeting system for Coordinate Seeking Weapons.
SIMI VALLEY, CA -- House and Senate lawmakers have released a fiscal year 2025 defense authorization bill that would approve $895 billion for national defense, sticks to the spending cap mandated by the Fiscal Responsibility Act but includes funds for an additional Virginia-class submarine.
