The INSIDER daily digest -- Dec. 10, 2019

This Tuesday INSIDER Daily Digest has news from the FY-20 defense authorization conference bill agreed to last night, plus the JEDI Cloud program, LOGCAP V and more.

House and Senate conferees late last night finalized the fiscal year 2020 defense policy bill. Here's our coverage so far:

Lawmakers elevate SCO to report to DEPSECDEF, rebuffing Griffin's gambit to subordinate office

House and Senate lawmakers resoundingly rejected a Pentagon plan by Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Mike Griffin to subordinate the Strategic Capabilities Office under the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.

Policy bill supports Space Force, proposes big changes to space acquisition

House and Senate conference members released a defense policy bill tonight that would establish a Space Force as a separate military service with Title 10 authority.

Conference report directs slate of F-35 reporting requirements, improvement efforts

Lawmakers are proposing a slew of F-35 oversight provisions as part of a defense policy bill released Monday by conference committee members, including requirements for sustainment cost and readiness details, reporting on the Block 4 modernization process and insight into efforts to rearchitect the Joint Strike Fighter's Autonomic Logistics Information System.

Lawmakers heighten oversight of GBSD acquisition, Air Force-NNSA coordination

The defense authorization bill that House and Senate conference members released Monday night requires the Air Force to identify risks and costs if the service receives only one proposal to develop the Ground Based Strategic Deterrent.

Some LOGCAP V news:

Army proposes reopening LOGCAP V procurement

The Army said in a filing Monday that it wants the U.S. Court of Federal Claims to put cases about the Logistics Civil Augmentation Program V, or LOGCAP V, on hold while it makes new "price reasonableness determinations."

The Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure contract is on the verge of being implemented:

Pentagon, Microsoft officials meeting this week to kick off JEDI cloud contract

Pentagon officials are meeting with Microsoft representatives in Washington this week to begin implementing the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure contract, even as Amazon is suing to block the award in federal court.

Pentagon acquisition chief Ellen Lord spoke at a Defense Department press briefing this morning:

Lord draws 2020 priority map with special focus on implementing supply chain security

Pentagon acquisition chief Ellen Lord today outlined her key goals and challenges for 2020, focusing specifically on implementing new supply chain security standards, fielding counter-drone systems to U.S. troops, developing 5G communications, protecting intellectual property and strengthening the National Technology and Industrial Base.

More coverage from this weekend's Reagan Forum:

Berger: 'Big muscle movements' to fund new Fleet Marine Force organization begin in FY-22

SIMI VALLEY, CA -- The Marine Corps plans to commence early next year a major realignment of its investment accounts, building a new five-year budget plan that sheds select weapons acquired during land operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and invests in capabilities optimized for expeditionary fights against technologically sophisticated adversaries such as China and Russia.

(Check out our full Reagan Forum coverage here.)

The Common Very Low Frequency/Low Frequency Receiver Increment 2 (CVR Inc. 2) program intends to replace unsustainable strategic communications equipment and develop a uniform waveform for both the Air Force and Navy to use:

Air Force finalizing procurement strategy for emergency nuclear communications system

The Air Force is finishing up an acquisition plan for a new beyond-line-of-sight receiver that allows aerial and ground-based nuclear platforms to accept "emergency action messages" from the president.

Defense contractors haven't done a good job safeguarding weapon system data from spies:

Pentagon task force chief wants to 'stop the bleeding' of critical technologies to foreign adversaries

The director of the Pentagon's Protecting Critical Technology Task Force is blunt in his assessment of defense contractors' efforts to protect vital U.S. weapon system data from foreign spies: "They blew it."