Thursday, April 25, 2024
Thursday, April 25, 2024
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This Tuesday INSIDER Daily Digest has news on the Navy's latest maritime strategy, the Air Force's Long-Range Anti-Ship Missile program and much more.
Here's our coverage so far of the Navy's new maritime strategy:
New maritime strategy aimed at China, Russia lays out future major acquisition time lines
The Navy's new maritime strategy, seeking to align with the National Defense Strategy, details how the service can prepare for "great power competition" with the Russian and Chinese navies and lays out time lines for future major acquisitions to support the strategy.
Navy sets 2025 target for deploying offensive, conventional hypersonic strike weapon
The Navy's top officer has set 2025 as the the official target for fielding a sea-based, offensive hypersonic strike conventional weapon, giving the service about six years to adopt technologies -- including the hypersonic glide body developed as part of the Conventional Prompt Strike program -- for use in the U.S. military's submarine fleet.
More Navy news:
Spencer: Navy on track for 341 mission-capable Super Hornets by October 2019
The Navy is on track to achieve 341 mission-capable F/A-18 fighter jets by October 2019, Navy Secretary Richard Spencer recently confirmed.
Navy building LCSs at more than 20 percent under congressional cost cap
The actual execution costs for the Navy's most recently delivered Littoral Combat Ships are more than 20 percent below the congressional cost cap, according to a service spokesman.
Pentagon acquisition chief Ellen Lord spoke with reporters this week:
Lord again talks performance incentives with industry amid major acquisition policy rewrite
Pentagon acquisition chief Ellen Lord, after a controversial failure earlier this year, is again approaching defense contractors to get a range of perspectives on the potential for performance incentives, while simultaneously launching a massive "clean sheet" rewrite of government procurement policy.
The Air Force's Long-Range Anti-Ship Missile has reached early operational capability:
Long-Range Anti-Ship Missile reaches EOC on B-1 after slight delay
Lockheed Martin announced Tuesday it has met the criteria needed to declare early operational capability for its Long-Range Anti-Ship Missile on the Air Force's B-1B bomber.
Looks like the Army's Iron Fist active protection system is moving forward:
Iron Fist APS approved for initial production
The Army Requirements Oversight Council has decided to move forward with fielding Iron Fist, a non-developmental active protection system, on the Bradley Fighting Vehicle, according to the service.
The Air Force isn't very good at managing spare parts for the Reaper unmanned aerial vehicle:
DOD IG tells Air Force to improve MQ-9 spare parts inventory planning
The Air Force will consider how it uses spare parts for the MQ-9 Block 5 aircraft when projecting future requirements, in response to a Defense Department inspector general finding that the service has thousands of excess Reaper parts in its inventory.
Document: DOD IG report on excess Reaper parts
The Army has selected two winners to keep working on the Mobile Protected Firepower vehicle:
BAE, General Dynamics move forward in Mobile Protected Firepower competition
The Army has chosen BAE Systems and General Dynamics Land Systems to build prototypes for the Mobile Protected Firepower vehicle, dropping Science Applications International Corp. from consideration.