Saturday, April 20, 2024
Saturday, April 20, 2024
This Wednesday INSIDER Daily Digest has coverage of a new National Defense Industrial Association assessment along with the Pentagon's annual operational test and evaluation report.
A new defense industrial base assessment was conducted by the National Defense Industrial Association through a partnership with data analytics firm Govini:
New NDIA report gives defense industrial base a 'C' grade
The National Defense Industrial Association today, in the first of what is a planned annual review, gave the defense industrial base a "C" grade, pointing to challenges with cybersecurity and workforce.
Our coverage of the Pentagon's latest annual operational test and evaluation report continues with looks at the Navy's Fire Scout unmanned aerial vehicle and Knifefish unmanned underwater vehicle as well as the Marine Corps' MH-63K helicopter:
DOT&E says Fire Scout is 'not operationally effective,' reveals Navy created 'tiger team'
The Pentagon's chief weapons testers say both they and the Navy have assessed a new unmanned aircraft as "not operationally effective, not operationally suitable, and not cyber survivable," and have revealed the service created a "tiger team" to fix those issues.
Pentagon's top weapons tester says all CH-53K deficiencies won't be fixed by IOT&E
The Navy will not fix all of the technical issues plaguing the Marine Corps' new heavy-lift helicopter in time for the initial operational test and evaluation stage of the program.
Weapons testers 'unable to assess' Knifefish viability because of test environment
Pentagon weapons evaluators in their latest annual report criticized the Navy's testing of an unmanned undersea vehicle designed for mine countermeasures, saying the environment was too comparable to the conditions the vessels' original creators used when developing classification algorithms.
(For full coverage of this year's DOT&E report, click here.)
Gen. Gus Perna, head of Army Materiel Command, spoke this week at a Defense Writers Group breakfast:
Army Materiel Command finding applications for advanced manufacturing
The Army is investing in advanced manufacturing capabilities at Rock Island Arsenal, IL, and wants to see how those can be used at the tactical level.
And in case you missed it, the Air Force this week sent lawmakers its organizational plan for the new Space Force:
Space Force report details plans for agile, 'clean sheet' organizational structure, processes
The Air Force has delivered to Congress its plan for the organizational structure of the Space Force, outlining "clean sheet" plans to stand up a lean, agile service.