Friday, April 19, 2024
Friday, April 19, 2024
This Tuesday INSIDER Daily Digest has news on various missile defense provisions in the compromise fiscal year 2023 defense policy bill and more.
We start off with a story on the cybersecurity of missile defense:
New legislation set to impose major new cybersecurity regime on MDA's $226B portfolio
Congress is poised to lay a major new requirement on the U.S. military's long-range missile defense enterprise, mandating a comprehensive set of actions to establish persistent cybersecurity operations and testing for ballistic missile defense systems and networks.
. . . Plus coverage of additional cyber provisions in the compromise fiscal year 2023 defense authorization bill:
Defense policy bill aims to advance efforts on security for quantum computing, AI
The final version of the annual defense policy bill now headed to the Senate floor includes provisions to accelerate work on securing federal systems against the future threat posed by quantum computing and to help advance the government's work on promoting secure artificial intelligence development.
The defense policy bill will also authorize an additional $200 million in advance procurement funding for Naval Strike Missiles:
Navy signals interest in multiyear procurement for Naval Strike Missiles
The Navy put out a call to industry looking for companies that can produce the Naval Strike Missile -- a component of the service's long-range anti-ship capability known as the Over-the-Horizon Weapon System (OTH-WS).
More missile defense news from the compromise defense policy bill:
Senate push to expand NGI fleet finds place in final bill; DOD to draft potential $7B plan
The Defense Department would be required to draft a plan to triple the size of the Next Generation Interceptor inventory -- from 20 to 64 guided missiles -- a move that could drive the procurement price tag for the homeland defense interceptor fleet from $2.3 billion to more than $7 billion.
The Air Force has developed a new project to prototype an alternative fuel source solution:
AFRL tests synthetic, carbon-recycling jet fuel
The Air Force Research Laboratory and its private partners tested a synthetic jet fuel made from carbon in the air that can be used in existing jet engines, a propellant one of the project leads said could address logistics challenges while providing a carbon-neutral combustible alternative.