The INSIDER daily digest -- Aug. 20, 2019

This Tuesday INSIDER Daily Digest features ISR funding news, the official standup date for U.S. Space Command, the Army's Distributed Common Ground System and more.

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Joseph Dunford announced the official standup date for U.S. Space Command at the sixth meeting of the National Space Council:

SPACECOM to stand up next week; DOD, NRO establish new joint ops floor

The Defense Department will formally establish U.S. Space Command next week, on Aug. 29, a move that will shift 87 units under a single unified combatant command.

A new Pentagon internal reprogramming action shifts money from a fiscal year 2019 defense-wide operations and maintenance account for "administration and service-wide activities" to the military departments' Overseas Contingency Operations coffers for new ISR programs:

Pentagon transfers nearly $70M to fill ISR gaps

The Pentagon is shifting nearly $70 million to buy additional intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities, according to an Aug. 13 budgetary reprogramming notice signed by acting Pentagon Comptroller Elaine McCusker.

Army Col. Thomas Nguyen, project manager for DCGS-A, spoke last week at Aberdeen Proving Ground:

Army to field first capability of Distributed Common Ground System

The Army is planning to field the first capability of the Distributed Common Ground System to 500 battalions by next spring.

The Army is fielding the third capability drop of Increment 1 of the Electronic Warfare Planning Management Tool, the service's software-intensive product for commanders to plan, control and manage the electromagnetic spectrum:

Army fielding new EW software

The Army has started fielding software from the Electronic Warfare Planning Management Tool and is implementing user feedback while the system is in production.

Delivery of the first U.S.-built A-29 Super Tucano to Nigeria has been delayed:

First A-29 Super Tucano delivery to Nigeria pushed back to May 2021

The first delivery in the foreign military sale of 12 A-29 Super Tucano aircraft to Nigeria is not expected until May 2021, one year later than initially scheduled.