Sunday, May 5, 2024
Sunday, May 5, 2024
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This Thursday INSIDER Daily Digest has news from the Air Force Life Cycle Industry Day conference and more.
We start off with coverage of this week's Air Force Life Cycle Industry Days:
Cropsey looks to simplify DAF Battle Network/JADC2 solutions before expanding complexity
DAYTON, OH -- The Air Force is beginning to discuss specific requirements for the Department of the Air Force Battle Network with industry in classified meetings, Brig. Gen. Luke Cropsey said Tuesday.
Senior Air Force official has positive approach to HACM
DAYTON, OHIO -- The hypersonic attack cruise missile has been in development for about a year and is progressing positively on the middle-tier acquisition development plan, according to Brig. Gen. Jason Bartolomei, program executive officer for armament.
Air Force planning on carrying two vendors through NGAD engine prototype
DAYTON, OH -- The Air Force will fund prototypes of the Next Generation Adaptive Propulsion engine from both General Electric and Pratt & Whitney, a change from the previous plan of prototyping just one engine.
The Navy awarded some big destroyer contracts this week:
Navy awards nine Arleigh Burke-class destroyers in five-year contracts
HII and Bath Iron Works have been awarded multiyear contracts to build nine Arleigh Burke-class destroyers over the next five years.
On July 28, the office of the assistant secretary of defense for industrial base policy published a notice asking industry for proposals to help develop strategies to manage risks and costs across the fledgling hypersonic industrial base supply chain:
New ICAM team launches project to wring up to 80% from cost of hypersonic weapons
The Pentagon has established an Innovation Capability and Modernization team to spearhead an effort to forge a hypersonic industrial base -- directing government investments to prop up fledgling suppliers in an ambitious goal to eventually wring as much as 80% of the estimated production cost of long-range, ultra-fast, maneuvering strike systems.