Friday, August 27, 2021
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Congress is concerned about the decision to station the Army’s Europe-focused V Corps at Ft. Knox, KY, according to a provision in the House Armed Services Committee’s chairman’s mark of the fiscal year 2022 defense policy bill.
The House Armed Services Committee wants the Air Force to ensure its Advanced Battle Management System doesn’t waste resources and fields capabilities that fit into the Defense Department’s broader command and control effort, as lawmakers recommended cutting back the program’s funding in their fiscal year 2022 chairman’s mark.
The Navy successfully tested a new motor for a hypersonic missile that will be fielded by both the Navy and Army.
House authorizers want the National Reconnaissance Office to use the Space Force’s major launch services contracting mechanism “to the extent practicable” according to a draft of fiscal year 2020 defense policy legislation.
The House Armed Services Committee is pushing back against the Navy’s plan to use F-5s and F-16s as adversary aircraft in training scenarios and wants the service to use more modern aircraft instead, according to the committee chairman’s mark for the fiscal year 2022 defense authorization bill.
An influential lawmaker is proposing legislation that -- if enacted -- could establish a new framework for assessing the suitability of the U.S. military’s existing major weapon system inventory for potential future combat operations, directing a review that could reshape the $2 trillion roster of current projects by identifying programs for divestiture that are not keeping pace with emerging threats.
Lockheed Martin is developing an upgrade to the Q-53 counterfire target acquisition radar that will provide the system with a new digital backbone using components borrowed from the Sentinel A4.
The Navy has concluded the full ship shock trials for the aircraft carrier Gerald Ford (CVN-78), the first carrier of its class.
The House Armed Services Committee is proposing several legislative provisions related to the Defense Department’s cyber activities, including developing an “information collaborative environment” and establishing a program management office for enterprise-wide procurement of commercial cyber threat information products.
An influential lawmaker is proposing legislation that -- if enacted -- could establish a new framework for assessing the suitability of the U.S. military’s existing major weapon system inventory for potential future combat operations, directing a review that could reshape the $2 trillion roster of current projects by identifying programs for divestiture that are not keeping pace with emerging threats.
The Navy's unmanned MQ-25 Stingray completed an air-to-air refueling test with the E-2D Advanced Hawkeye on Wednesday, the service announced today.
The House Armed Services Committee’s version of the fiscal year 2022 defense authorization bill sets a topline budget of $715 billion for the Pentagon, aligning with the amount requested by President Biden in April, but $25 billion less than what Senate authorizers have approved.
