The INSIDER daily digest

Our coverage of the Pentagon's FY-16 omnibus reprogramming request dominates this Tuesday INSIDER Daily Digest.

Leading off with a general overview of the reprogramming request:

DOD seeks blessing from lawmakers to shift $2.6 billion between accounts

The Pentagon is seeking congressional permission to shift $2.6 billion between budget accounts as part of an annual reallocation of funds the U.S. military has in hand, launching five new-start projects, including a new machine-gun round for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, adding new capabilities to the Tomahawk cruise missile and an Army study for a new heavy equipment transporter.

Switching to the Navy portions of the reprogramming:

DOD aims to shift more than $630 million for Navy ship, aircraft maintenance

The Defense Department's fiscal year 2016 omnibus reprogramming request seeks to shift more than $500 million in funding for ship maintenance and an additional $129 million to fund Navy aircraft flying hours and depot maintenance.

Pentagon wants $30M cut from Navy's unmanned tanker, citing 'underexecution'

The Pentagon is proposing to cut $30 million from the Navy's future unmanned tanker that will operate from an aircraft carrier due to "underexecution," according to the fiscal year 2016 omnibus reprogramming request obtained by Inside Defense.

(Stay tuned for more coverage of the reprogramming in the coming days.)

The Defense Department recently updated its National Industrial Security Operating Manual:

Pentagon requires contractors to establish insider threat programs

The Pentagon in May published a change to the National Industrial Security Operating Manual that "requires contractors to establish and maintain an insider threat program to detect, deter and mitigate insider threats," according to a Defense Security Service letter on the matter.

Document: DOD's national industrial security program operating manual

Keep an eye out for three "fleet architecture" studies being done by the Navy and some outside analysts:

Analysts developing new fleet designs ahead of updated ship requirement

The Navy and a pair of external groups are developing new concepts for the way the fleet should be designed, organized and postured around the world, as the service determines the number of ships it will require in the future.

Looks like the Army will be moving forward with a new counterfire radar system:

Army unit finds Q-53 radar 'exceptionally reliable' in Iraq deployment

The first operational deployment of the Army's new counterfire radar system was highly successful, according to a commander whose unit recently returned from Iraq.

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