Friday, April 19, 2024
Friday, April 19, 2024
This first INSIDER Daily Digest of 2020 has defense industry advocates looking at the top potential issues of the year, plus the Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center's plans for a space prototyping fund and more.
We start off with a deep dive into the issues defense industry advocates will be monitoring in 2020:
Ready for 2020: Defense industry advocates and experts detail top issues
Defense industry advocates say they expect a busy year as the Pentagon takes up new measures, such as the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification. However, the coming election could add some uncertainty.
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.
House and Senate authorization conferees want a cost estimate of the latest Missile Defense Review:
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.
Keep an eye out this year for a Standard Missile-3 Block IIA intercept test against an ICBM target:
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.
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.