The INSIDER daily digest -- April 7, 2017

In today's INSIDER Daily Digest: Some internal Senate Armed Services Committee staffing news plus continued coverage of this week's Space Symposium in Colorado.

The Senate Armed Services Committee staff is being reshuffled:

Greenwalt leaving Senate Armed Services Committee

Bill Greenwalt, the Senate Armed Services Committee staffer who helped Chairman John McCain (R-AZ) engineer some of the most significant acquisition reforms in years, will soon be leaving the committee, according to several sources.

Continued coverage of this week's Space Symposium:

Air Force to appoint new three-star 'space advocate' in the next few months

Air Force Space Command Chief Gen. Jay Raymond said this week he plans to move swiftly to fill a new three-star "space advocate" role on the Air Staff.

Space C2 hubs evolving from experimental to operational

COLORADO SPRINGS, CO -- The recent name changes of two high-profile organizations working to align the space interests of the Defense Department and intelligence community are not merely cosmetic, but indicate their evolution from experimentation and tactics development hubs to centers supporting national-level space operations, according to a military official.

Space Fence radar installation to start this month

COLORADO SPRINGS, CO -- Lockheed Martin and the Air Force completed shipment of the new Space Fence radar to Kwajalein Atoll in March and plan to begin installation at the radar site this month.

Air Force Space Command to partner with Rapid Capabilities Office on space BMC2

COLORADO SPRINGS, CO -- Air Force Space Command plans to partner with the service's Rapid Capabilities Office to more quickly field an Enterprise Space Battle Management Command and Control system.

More Air Force news:

Air Force enters PAR negotiations with Boeing after few changes

The Trump administration and the Air Force have finalized minimum requirements for the Presidential Aircraft Recapitalization program, green-lighting price negotiations with Boeing, service officials told Inside the Air Force this week.

Air Operations Center working through issues in additional tests after CCR

Air Force officials report they are ahead of schedule in working through the service's war-planning software's remaining problems, after issuing a critical change report and editing the program's schedule baselines last fall.

F-35 Block 4 capability plan approved by JROC, cost estimate out this summer

The Joint Requirements Oversight Council approved the Block 4 capability development plan last month for the Joint Strike Fighter, about 15 months late, and a cost estimate from the office of the secretary of defense will wrap up this summer, according to a program official.

Russian sorties toward U.S. decline in 2016, but bomber fleet armed with 'troubling new capability'

Moscow last year significantly dialed back the number of long-range bomber sorties sent in the direction of the United States, a change that belies what a top U.S. military commander says is a "troubling" new capability: a Russian project to outfit its bomber fleet with cruise missiles that can hold the U.S. and Canada at risk.

Document: Senate hearing on NORTHCOM, SOUTHCOM

News on the Army's IAMD program:

Army's $7B IAMD program flunks major test, plans do-over in hopes of production transition

The Army is planning a do-over operational test for the $7 billion Integrated Air and Missile Defense program after the Limited User Test conducted last year did not produce results sufficient to support a production decision, triggering a further delay in the Northrop Grumman-led project to build an integrated fire-control network to better shield ground forces from air and missile threats.