Saturday, April 20, 2024
Saturday, April 20, 2024
This final INSIDER Daily Digest of 2019 has news on missile defense, nuclear weapons, an Air Force space prototyping fund and more.
We start off with some missile defense and nonproliferation news:
Lawmakers want cost estimate of 2019 Missile Defense Review policy goals
The Pentagon's independent cost estimator has been directed to assess the implications of the 2019 Missile Defense Review, the Trump administration's new blueprint for defending against ballistic, cruise and hypersonic threats and brief lawmakers in January on the estimated price tag for expanding the Ballistic Missile Defense System.
House relents; SM-3 Block IIA test against ICBM cleared for 2020
The Missile Defense Agency is cleared to resume planning for a flight test in fiscal year 2020 of a Standard Missile-3 Block IIA against an intercontinental ballistic missile target.
DOD eyes machine learning, artificial intelligence for nuclear C3 enterprise
The Nuclear Command, Control and Communications Enterprise Center (NEC) aims to leverage machine learning and artificial intelligence to enable a more efficient exchange of information between decision-makers, warfighters and weapon systems.
ICBM fuze mod program has new schedule, will update cost position in spring 2020
The Air Force has come up with a new schedule for the intercontinental ballistic missile fuze modernization program that delays the final design review by several months but will not affect operational requirements for Minuteman III, according to an Air Force spokeswoman.
The Air Force's Space and Missile Systems Center wants more money to go toward prototyping efforts:
Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center eyes boost to space prototyping fund
The Space and Missile Systems Center is looking to boost funding for a fiscal year 2020 new-start program that would consolidate and focus investment in innovative prototyping efforts across the space enterprise.
The Army wants dismounted infantry platoons to be 10 times more effective and make decisions 10 times faster:
AI-enabled platoon achieves extended range of dominance at Ft. Benning
The Army and its industry partners recently completed a week-long experiment to bring robotic and artificial intelligence capabilities to soldiers at Ft. Benning, GA.
Last but certainly not least, continuing coverage of the Pentagon's CMMC program from our colleagues at Inside Cybersecurity:
Researcher urges Pentagon to slow down on certification program, allow testing, cost assessments
A leading defense acquisition policy researcher at the Center for Strategic and International Studies is warning the Pentagon about moving too fast on its landmark cybersecurity certification program before testing its effectiveness on a handful of companies and fully assessing its costs.
Happy New Year!
The next INSIDER Daily Digest will publish on Thursday, Jan. 2.