Thursday, April 25, 2024
Thursday, April 25, 2024
This Friday INSIDER Daily Digest has news on how Austal is preparing for the Navy's Light Amphibious Warship and Future Frigate programs as well as the latest on the MQ-25 unmanned aerial system and more.
Austal is building a steel line as it hopes to win Light Amphibious Warship and Future Frigate follow-on contracts:
Austal building steel line as it readies to compete for key contracts
Austal is building a steel production line at its Mobile, AL shipyard as the company positions itself to compete for the Marine Corps' Light Amphibious Warship and Navy's follow-on contract for the FFG(X) Future Frigate program.
The Navy's MQ-25 program has been facing the prospect of delays for over a year:
Navy officials won't commit to a timeline for MQ-25 control center installations
The schedule for installing the MQ-25 control system on Navy aircraft carriers is "under review" due to recent changes in the ground control station, a Navy spokeswoman tells Inside Defense.
A recent Global Information Dominance Exercise brought together all 11 combatant commands:
NORTHCOM exercise demonstrates ready-to-field JADC2 capabilities
A recent U.S. Northern Command Joint All-Domain Command-and-Control exercise demonstrated several capabilities available today to improve domain awareness, information dominance and decision superiority -- and the NORTHCOM commander told reporters this week he wants to move quickly to acquire and field those technologies.
An upgrade to the Sentinel A4 radar variant will help better detect unmanned aerial vehicles and other small, low-flying threats:
Sentinel A4 passes critical design review
The Army completed a critical design review of Lockheed Martin's Sentinel A4 radar system in February, five months ahead of schedule, the company announced April 1.
The Air Force wants deeper software partnerships with the defense industry:
USAF exploring contract solutions to tighten relationships with software companies
The Air Force's flagship DevSecOps team -- Platform One -- is considering a range of contractual vehicles to deepen partnerships with the defense industrial base and incentivize software companies to collaborate on new and improved enterprise services for military customers.