Sunday, May 12, 2024
Sunday, May 12, 2024
This Wednesday INSIDER Daily Digest has coverage of a Washington breakfast featuring the presumed incoming House Armed Services Committee chairman, DOD artificial intelligence efforts, a pending missile defense radar contract and more.
Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA), the presumed incoming House Armed Services Committee chairman, wants to rein in defense spending:
Smith wants to pivot defense spending debate toward cost savings
Rep. Adam Smith (WA), the Democrat poised to lead the House Armed Services Committee, says he is ready to take on Republicans pushing for an increase in defense spending and wants to reorient the conversation toward a more fiscally restrained national security strategy.
Defense Department Chief Information Officer Dana Deasy testified before a House Armed Services emerging threats and technology subcommittee hearing this week:
Pentagon's artificial intelligence center to coordinate military AI projects above $15 million
The Pentagon's newly established Joint Artificial Intelligence Center will "coordinate" all military AI projects expected to cost more than $15 million to ensure common standards and practices, with the organization expected to take on a greater role for component-specific programs once it receives more funding.
Document: House hearing on DOD AI efforts
Keep an eye on the Missile Defense Agency for an imminent Homeland Defense Radar-Hawaii contract award:
Source selection for $1 billion Hawaii ballistic missile radar expected this month
MOORESTOWN, NJ -- The Missile Defense Agency could select a winner in the $1 billion program to design and deliver a new ground-based, ballistic missile defense radar to better defend Hawaii from North Korean threats, one of the three competitors for the Homeland Defense Radar-Hawaii program said here.
The B61-12 is made up of four legacy B61 bomb variants that will be refurbished and consolidated into one weapon:
B61-12 tailkit program reaches milestone C with production to follow
The Air Force announced this month it had approved a milestone C decision for the B61-12 tailkit assembly program in late October, clearing the way for production.
The Congressional Budget Office this week released a review of the potential cost to replace, one-for-one, the Air Force's aging aircraft fleet:
CBO report projects $300 million unit cost for penetrating counterair platform
A new Congressional Budget Office report estimates the unit cost of a new fighter jet to replace the F-22 and F-15 C/D at about $300 million and projects the Air Force's yearly procurement spending on the new aircraft will peak in 2030 at about $9 billion in 2018 dollars.
Document: CBO report on 'the cost of replacing today's Air Force fleet'