The INSIDER daily digest -- April 11, 2017

Tomorrow's ACC airborne networking day, the Navy's frigate design and more highlight this Tuesday INSIDER Daily Digest.

An early look at tomorrow's ACC airborne networking day:

ACC airborne networking day to shape future efforts, inform new and existing joint efforts

Air Force Air Combat Command's airborne networking industry day to be held Wednesday will explore ways to incorporate cloud-based airborne networking into future families of systems, as well as to drive current networking efforts that exist between services, to join initiatives already underway in other services and create new ones altogether.

The Navy's frigate design plans are being looked at again:

Defense Department re-considering frigate design, acquisition strategy

The Pentagon is re-considering the path forward for the Navy's frigate program yet again, with officials now mulling whether to beef up the ship's anti-air warfare capabilities and open up competition to designs beyond one based on the Littoral Combat Ship.

Don't expect STRATCOM to be getting new nuclear security helicopters anytime soon:

STRATCOM withdraws forces request to speed Huey recap; second draft RFP expected next week

U.S. Strategic Command chief Gen. John Hyten has rescinded a request for forces, more than a year after it was submitted to the Joint Staff, to add more security personnel at intercontinental ballistic missile sites while the Air Force replaces the UH-1N Huey.

Army modernization plans:

Army crafts long-range modernization strategies

The Army is undertaking a series of related efforts to codify its modernization plans, according to the acting director of the Army Capabilities Integration Center.

Some Army combat vehicle news:

Industry outlines MAPS progress

Initial integration of the Modular Active Protection System soft-kill demonstrator was completed in December with full-system demonstrations on the Abrams tank anticipated in November to December 2017, according to an industry official.

Army aims to reduce weight of reactive armor tiles

As the Army continues to develop reactive armor technologies, the service hopes to reduce the weight and improve the performance of explosive reactive armor tiles, according to a service official.