Welcome to today's Defense Business Briefing, your weekly roundup of the latest defense industry news.
This week's top story
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) is demanding Deputy Defense Secretary Stephen Feinberg sever all ties to Cerberus Capital Management -- the private equity firm he co-founded and ran before joining the Pentagon -- citing serious conflict-of-interest concerns after at least four Cerberus-owned or partially owned companies were awarded contracts under the $185 billion Golden Dome missile-defense program he now oversees.
News & notes
NATIONAL HARBOR, MD -- White House Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought last week lambasted industry over delays plaguing the Navy's shipbuilding portfolio and threatened to take the government's business elsewhere if performance does not improve.
Lockheed Martin executives said last week that a new wave of long-term missile production "frameworks" with the Pentagon is reshaping how the Defense Department buys weapons, introducing commercial-style features designed to accelerate output while reducing financial risk for industry.
RTX leaders announced a strong first-quarter performance in an investor call last week and raised the company's full-year outlook by $500 million as leaders touted recent critical munitions framework agreements with the Pentagon.
Northrop Grumman is taking steps to become a secondary supplier of solid-rocket motors for more missile programs, CEO Kathy Warden said last week, as the Defense Department seeks to boost industrial base capacity.
The National Defense Industrial Association discusses challenges facing the Pentagon's Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program in an annual report on the health of the defense industrial base, with a call for harmonizing the government's incident reporting and software attestation requirements.
The Professional Services Council is calling for scoping on rules to amend the Federal Acquisition Regulation to ban certain semiconductors on federal systems as a matter of national security, commenting on a rule proposed under a mandate in the national defense policy law.
The Defense Innovation Unit awarded shipbuilder HII a contract to deliver a system that would allow Navy submarines to launch and recover vessels like HII’s REMUS unmanned underwater vehicles, the company announced this week.
NATIONAL HARBOR, MD -- Leidos and autonomy start-up HavocAI have partnered up to compete for the Navy's new medium unmanned surface vessel requirement, according to company executives, who are highlighting their collaborative autonomy technology and mission-enabling capabilities rather than a specific MUSV platform.
Appointments & promotions
President Trump last week tapped Erich Hernandez-Baquero to be Air Force assistant secretary for space acquisition and integration, according to a White House announcement.
What's happening
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is scheduled to testify on Capitol Hill this week. Other senior Pentagon officials are also slated to appear before Congress.
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The Army is dropping the total number of Paladins it wants to field to reconcile a paradoxical promise in its fiscal year 2027 budget request: that it will finish fielding as it simultaneously stops procurement.
The Golden Dome director called out just one piece of technology by name at the Pentagon's first major public event for the homeland missile-defense program this week -- a passive Army sensor the service began building to patch vulnerabilities in its own air-defense network and whose existence commanders had for years played down.
The Pentagon offered the public its first hands-on look Thursday at the hardware likely to form the initial instantiation of Golden Dome, a collection of mostly Army-built radars, interceptors and command systems that the program's director, Gen. Michael Guetlein, invited visitors to inspect on the apron of a Navy base in Norfolk, VA.
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