Inside the Army highlights

Some must-reads from the year-end issue of Inside the Army:

1. The House and Senate last week voted to extend a continuing resolution funding the government through Jan. 19, with the latest stopgap spending measure including emergency funds for missile defense and Navy ship repair.

Full story: House, Senate pass CR with emergency funding for BMD, Navy ship repair

2. The Defense Department has submitted to Congress a list of 56 new-start acquisition programs and 25 production-rate increases to be considered "anomalies" and granted funding exemptions under a new stopgap continuing resolution, according to a document obtained by Inside Defense.

Full story: DOD sends Congress prioritized list of programs needing CR exemptions

3. Army Materiel Command is seeking to minimize the logistical challenges the service encounters when it lacks access to technical data and the full supply chain for its platforms.

Full story: AMC chief eyes improved access to technical data, supply chain

4. The Army is reviewing a draft proposal from the Missile Defense Agency that calls for transferring responsibility for the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system from the agency to the service, a long-planned move first envisioned when MDA was established in 2002 to field an operational Ballistic Missile Defense System.

Full story: Army reviewing MDA proposal to transfer THAAD responsibility to service

Happy Holidays! The next Inside the Army highlights will be posted Jan. 8, 2018.