The INSIDER daily digest -- Dec. 17, 2018

This Monday INSIDER Daily Digest has news on the proposed U.S. Space Command, the Cobra Dane early warning radar and the cyber threat from China.

The Defense Department has yet to iron out key details of the proposed U.S. Space Command:

Pentagon yet to identify location for U.S. Space Command headquarters

Amid media reports the White House may announce the establishment of U.S. Space Command Tuesday, multiple sources tell Inside Defense the Pentagon is still working through key details of those plans, including where to locate the new combatant command.

A new Government Accountability Office report looks at the Alaska-based Cobra Dane early warning radar:

DOD plans to spend $418 million on Cobra Dane through 2024, retain sensor through at least 2030

The Defense Department plans to spend $418 million through 2024 to keep the Cobra Dane radar in Alaska -- built in 1976 and slated to remain in use until at least 2030 -- operational, according to an audit of an Air Force report to Congress on the missile defense and space surveillance sensor.

Document: GAO report on the Cobra Dane radar

Our colleagues at Inside Cybersecurity have an analysis piece from a recent congressional hearing on the China cyber threat:

Cyber threat from China unifies typically divided Congress on setting tough security protections

An assessment of China's aggressive actions in cyberspace -- fueled by its ambition to match or replace the United States as a global superpower and employing intellectual property theft and cyber espionage -- is forging an unusual commonality on Capitol Hill that could clear the way for new, tougher cybersecurity requirements to protect the industrial supply chain and overall security of critical infrastructure and U.S. innovation.