The INSIDER daily digest -- Feb. 22, 2018

Overseas Contingency Operations funding, the Air Force's next-generation nuclear cruise missile, DARPA's budget and more highlight this Thursday INSIDER Daily Digest.

The Pentagon recently provided Inside Defense with a detailed breakdown of its proposed OCO budget:

Pentagon breaks down $20B OCO 'realignment' for FY-19

The Pentagon has "realigned" $20 billion initially pegged for its fiscal year 2019 Overseas Contingency Operations request and directed it toward the military's base budgets to adhere to a bipartisan congressional spending deal, according to a detailed breakdown provided to Inside Defense.

The Air Force's FY-19 budget request discloses for the first time the service's forecast to develop a replacement for the AGM-85B air-launched cruise missile:

Air Force pegs LRSO development at $4.5 billion, dramatically lower than previous estimate

The Air Force has revealed the development cost of the Long Range Standoff Weapon to be $4.5 billion, nearly half the tab for the next-generation nuclear cruise missile the service tallied two years ago, according to service budget documents.

DARPA is seeking $298 million in FY-19 for programs under its "electronics resurgence initiative," up from $75 million the previous year:

DARPA seeks massive boost in electronics research funding

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is nearly quadrupling its planned investments in fiscal year 2019 for programs seeking to find new materials, architectures and designs for microelectronics.

Document: DARPA's FY-19 budget justification book

The Defense Department aims to dedicate nearly half its EDI funding to enhanced prepositioning, requesting more than $3.2 billion for this purpose -- almost $2.5 billion for the Army:

Army constitutes more than 70 percent of DOD's FY-19 request for EDI

The Trump administration aims to drastically increase the funding in fiscal year 2019 for the European Deterrence Initiative, designed to counter Russian adventurism on the continent, with Army equipment and activities comprising $4.6 billion of a total $6.5 billion request.

The Pentagon has allocated $1.9 billion for CPS development in its new five-year plan beginning in FY-19, nearly doubling the total amount requested the previous year:

DOD doubles planned Conventional Prompt Strike funding, hands Navy program in FY-20

The Defense Department is ratcheting up planned funding for the Conventional Prompt Strike program and plans to hand responsibility for the project -- the U.S. military's marquee effort to develop an intermediate-range, non-nuclear hypersonic weapon -- to the Navy beginning in fiscal year 2020.

As the government's security executive agent, the DNI is responsible for setting policies on background investigations and access to classified information:

Pentagon developing proposal to reform security clearance process

The Pentagon will soon deliver a proposal to the director of national intelligence to reform the security clearance process by relying more on the use of "continuous evaluation" technologies and automated record checks rather than periodic background investigations.