Friday, April 19, 2024
Friday, April 19, 2024
This Wednesday INSIDER Daily Digest has news on the defense space enterprise, a delayed missile defense intercept test and more.
Over the past year, the heads of the Space and Missile Systems Center, Space Rapid Capabilities Office, Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office and the National Reconnaissance Office have met informally on a regular basis to ensure that their organizations are collaborating to enable better systems integration across the space architecture:
New Program Integration Council seeks better cooperation across defense space enterprise
A new Defense Department space leader forum aims to help facilitate cooperation and deconfliction across the national security space enterprise's architecture without adding bureaucracy to the space acquisition process.
The Missile Defense Agency's Flight Test Standard Missile (FTM)-44 was on schedule for earlier this year before the coronavirus outbreak forced the agency to pare back routine operations to curtail the virus' spread:
Pandemic sets back FTM-44, planned 2020 marquee missile defense flight test
The Missile Defense Agency is delaying until the end of this year a marquee test, slated for fiscal year 2020, pitting a Standard Missile-3 Block IIA against an intercontinental ballistic missile target to validate a new homeland defense architecture that would add a new "underlayer" to work in tandem with the Ground-based Midcourse Defense system.
Defense contractor Alion has shifted its focus away from Navy systems engineering and technical assistance:
Alion CEO remakes company to zero in on technology
With a major acquisition and a key divestiture under its belt, Alion has reshaped to focus on high-tech areas and significantly change its customer base.
Last but by no means least, some defense cyber news from our colleagues at Inside Cybersecurity:
Pentagon poised to sign no-cost contract with its CMMC accreditation body
The Defense Department is working on a no-cost contract with the independent authority that oversees the accreditation process for its Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program.
DOD clarifies information from contractors to comply with Huawei, ZTE ban
The Pentagon has issued a second interim rule on how contractors who want to do business with the federal government need to provide details on Huawei and ZTE equipment and services in their systems.