Anduril self-funds robot submarine testing to court US customers
"What we have been able to do with the Australian navy has begun to make believers" in robotic submarine technology, said Anduril Chief Strategy Officer Chris Brose.
$895.2 billion compromise NDAA released, sliding under Fiscal Responsibility Act cap levels
In an interview with Breaking Defense, Rep. Adam Smith said he was unsure if he would support the bill due to concerns about language that restricts transgender care for the children of servicemembers.
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Knowing when to build on commercial systems and when to develop something new can be the difference between parity and information dominance.
Trump’s threat to abandon CHIPS Act ‘horrific idea’ Raimondo says
In an interview with Breaking Defense, Sen. Mark Kelly said he would be talking to a member of the Trump team this week to advocate for the CHIPS Act's continued survival.
Boeing fighter chief, Steve Nordlund, retiring
Nordlund will be replaced by Dan Gillian, currently the vice president for Mobility, Surveillance & Bombers, Breaking Defense has learned.
Global defense revenues grew in 2023 amid Ukraine, Middle East conflicts: SIPRI report
While Russian defense contractors recorded a surge to their bottom lines, Chinese companies saw their year-over-year revenue growth stagnate, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.
EXCLUSIVE: How the Pentagon (quietly) spent $1 billion of inflation relief money
To help fight inflation, the Pentagon was given $1.05 billion to disperse to industry. Now, documents reviewed by Breaking Defense and interviews with key officials reveal how and why certain programs won out.
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GPS: Still the gold standard in global navigation
The GPS network continues to prove its unmatched reliability, and it’s only getting stronger.
Trump admin will bring ‘uncertainty,’ opportunities for defense industry: Analysts
"The makeup of Congress, and specifically the makeup of the House, I think will actually matter much more to the future of the defense budget than whoever the president is," said Todd Harrison of AEI.
Here’s how Congress’s biggest defense advocates fared in the 2024 election
Key members of the defense committees in both the House and Senate are locked in races that are still undecided.
Boeing machinists vote to end strike, putting KC-46, P-8 programs back on track
Members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM), which represents about 33,000 Boeing workers mostly in Washington state and Oregon, voted in a 59 percent majority to end the strike and will return to work on Nov. 6.
As Election Day looms, what Trump and Harris presidencies will (and won’t) mean for defense
While analysts told Breaking Defense a Trump administration would likely be a more unpredictable one, they also said that equally, if not more important, will be whichever party controls the houses of Congress where the defense budget is crafted.
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HII slashes financial outlook for 2024 due to contract delays, supply chain issues
In a note to investors, J.P. Morgan analyst Seth Seifman said the company's third quarter results and withdrawal of its cash flow guidance was "a worse outcome than we expected."
Lockheed completes acquisition of smallsat maker Terran Orbital
The smallsat maker — now known as Terran Orbital, a Lockheed Martin Company — will report to Lockheed’s space unit and serve as a merchant supplier to other major space primes, Lockheed said.
The Biden-era Pentagon makes its case for continued industrial base funding in new plan
“Our aim is not merely to maintain America's edge, but to sharpen it and lay the foundation for continued U.S. leadership in critical technologies and capabilities that will define the battlespace of the future,” Pentagon acquisition executive Bill LaPlante wrote in a foreword to the new National Defense Industrial Strategy Implementation Plan.
Embraer facing production ‘gap’ at Florida-based A-29 facility
“We are running the facility without big orders coming from FMS [foreign military sales],” Bosco da Costa Jr., chief executive of Embraer's defense unit, told Breaking Defense. “We are facing a gap of production there."