The INSIDER daily digest -- Dec. 20, 2018

This Thursday INSIDER Daily Digest has news on a change to satellite communications acquisition regulations, Army Cyber Command, the Defense Innovation Unit and much more.

Inside Defense has an advance look at a change to the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement that will appear in the Federal Register tomorrow:

DOD to amend SATCOM services acquisition rules to protect against Russian and Chinese threats

The Defense Department is working on an amendment to its acquisition rules that would place more restrictions on procurement of some foreign commercial satellite services and would prohibit the purchase of items from some Chinese military companies.

We spoke earlier this week with the head of Army Cyber Command's Cyberspace Electromagnetic Activities Support to Corps and Below program:

'Multidomain Operations 1.5' expands cyber support program

The Army's new "Multidomain Operations 1.5" concept will expand the work of Army Cyber Command's Cyberspace Electromagnetic Activities Support to Corps and Below program, but will not necessarily change its mission, according to the program's director.

We also chatted with DIU's Acquisition Pathways Director David Rothzeid:

DIU still putting measures in place to begin executing OTAs

While the Pentagon last month approved the Defense Innovation Unit to start executing its own other transaction authorities, the organization is still putting measures into place before it can begin issuing the agreements.

An unclassified executive summary of a Defense Science Board report requested during the Obama administration is now out:

DSB finds 'significant shortfalls' in U.S. logistics enterprise, eyes autonomous barges and airships

The U.S. military has "significant shortfalls" in its logistics enterprise that place at risk the ability to project power and sustain a fight against China and Russia -- deficiencies that must be remedied by a host of new investments, including new technologies and cyber hardening, as well as new concepts of operation.

Document: DSB report on survivable logistics

Sources are telling Inside Defense that officials are concerned an expected Space Force roadmap conflicts with the direction of a legislative proposal the Defense Department is currently crafting:

Sources: Pentagon classified congressionally directed, independent Space Force roadmap

The Pentagon appears to have classified a congressionally required Center for Naval Analyses report recommending a roadmap for standing up an independent Space Force, according to multiple sources.

Air Force Brig. Gen. B. Chance Saltzman spoke with Inside Defense this week:

MDC2 war game spurs Air Force to shift budget, experimentation priorities

Lessons learned from the Air Force's first multidomain command-and-control war game last month are now helping shape the fiscal year 2020 budget as well as its experimentation priorities, according to the service's operations director.

The GPS Contingency Operations capability was slated for delivery in early December, but that delivery date has now been moved to March 2019:

Air Force: GPS OCX contingency capability delayed due to development challenges

The Air Force confirmed this week Lockheed Martin is expected to be several months behind on delivering a key upgrade to the legacy GPS Operational Control Segment -- a modification that was designed to mitigate the impact of delays to the Next-Generation Operational Control Segment.