Friday, April 19, 2024
Friday, April 19, 2024
The next Air Force One, a new missile defense radar for the Pacific region, SM-3 Block IIA missile delivery delays and more highlight this Wednesday INSIDER Daily Digest.
A Boeing official told Inside Defense this week the agreed-upon price for a presidential aircraft replacement includes work to develop and build two jets with unique Air Force One features:
Air Force One deal matches FY-19 R&D projection, but no evidence of further PAR changes
Boeing has reached a $3.9 billion agreement with President Trump for two 747-8 jets that will serve as the next presidential aircraft fleet, capping off a period of tumult for the program after Trump in 2016 tweeted it was too expensive and should be canceled.
The Homeland Defense Radar-Pacific is one element of two new persistent discrimination radars for the Ballistic Missile Defense System:
MDA unveils new, billion-dollar radar program to shore up Pacific sensor network
The Missile Defense Agency is proposing what is effectively a new, billion-dollar radar program beginning in fiscal year 2019 to shore up sensor coverage over the Pacific to protect the nation from long-range ballistic missile threats, seeking funds to begin surveying potential sites for what is called Homeland Defense Radar-Pacific.
Deliveries of Standard Missile-3 Block IIA interceptors are being held up:
Raytheon holding SM-3 Block IIA deliveries pending failure review
Raytheon is holding in abeyance planned deliveries of the newest variant of the Standard Missile-3 -- the Block IIA interceptor -- pending the outcome of an investigation into the cause of a failure during a major ballistic missile defense flight test last month, according to company officials.
A Navy field test is utilizing a commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) human resource management (HRM) system, Oracle PeopleSoft, that is hosted on the cloud via Amazon Web Services:
Navy testing Amazon Web Services usage amid Pentagon cloud push
While the Pentagon grapples with migrating its operations to the cloud, the Navy is in the middle of field testing a personnel system hosted on similar technology.
House Armed Services seapower and projection forces subcommittee Chairman Rob Wittman (R-VA) told Inside the Navy recently the 30-year shipbuilding plan does not "get to where we have been emphatic about where the nation needs to be":
Navy never reaches 355-ship fleet size in new shipbuilding plan
The Navy never reaches its 355-ship fleet goal in the 30-year shipbuilding plan recently sent to Congress, leaving naval analysts and others disappointed in the service achieving its inventory objective.
Document: Navy's 30-year shipbuilding plan for FY-19
The first Virginia-class attack submarine contract to incorporate the Virginia Payload Module (VPM) will be awarded in October:
Virginia Payload Module schedule nearly derailed by 'anomalous material'
Only months before the Navy is scheduled to award its first attack submarine construction contract incorporating a highly anticipated new module, the service and that module's vendor corrected a problem that stood to delay production if it remained unaddressed.