Inside the Pentagon highlights

By John Liang / February 21, 2019 at 9:13 AM

Here are some must-reads from this week's issue of Inside the Pentagon:

1. Oracle's protest against the potentially $10 billion Joint Enterprise Cloud Infrastructure program is on pause as the Pentagon investigates "new information" in determining whether conflicts of interest tainted the competition in favor of Amazon Web Services.

Full story: DOD investigating potential conflicts of interest in JEDI cloud procurement

2. Democrats in Congress say they are eager to learn which military construction projects will go unfunded so President Trump can divert $3.6 billion to build a wall on the southwestern border following his declaration of a national emergency.

Full story: Capitol Hill readies for aftershock as Trump diverts DOD funds toward wall

3. President Trump signed a key space policy directive this week that would direct the creation of a new military service, but falls short of a previous order to establish a new department for space.

Full story: President signs key Space Force policy directive

4. The Pentagon is asking industry for ideas on a new satellite constellation optimized to identify fleeting, high-priority targets for attack by conventionally armed hypersonic glide vehicles, a solicitation that marks/node/202363 a development in the U.S. military's effort to field a new class of ultra-fast weapons and advances the Trump administration's goal to develop a "left of launch" missile defense capability.

Full story: DOD seeks new satellite network for long-range, hypersonic strike targeting

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