Tuesday, April 22, 2025
Tuesday, April 22, 2025
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This Friday INSIDER Daily Digest has news on the Navy's Indo-Pacific infrastructure needs, Oshkosh's latest earnings and more.
We start off with more coverage from this week's West 2025 conference in San Diego:
Navy looks to industry for manning support in multibillion-dollar effort to upgrade Pacific infrastructure
SAN DIEGO -- The Navy needs industry's help to bridge manning and capability gaps as it embarks on a multibillion-dollar effort to restore critical Indo-Pacific infrastructure that will enable operational readiness and, if needed, support U.S. forces in a war with China.
Navy needs industry to innovate faster to respond to threats like those in Red Sea, official says
SAN DIEGO -- The Navy needs industry to innovate faster, in ways that will allow the service to respond to rapidly evolving threats like those demonstrated in the Red Sea over the past year, according to the deputy commander of U.S. Central Command.
Senior Oshkosh executives discussed the company's latest earnings this week:
'Relatively flat' fourth quarter in defense sales for Oshkosh, but execs see growth down the line
Although defense sales for Oshkosh's fourth quarter of 2024 were "relatively flat" compared to the year before, officials touted strong growth ahead for its defense segment in an earnings call this morning, citing contract extensions, foreign demand and its new postal service vehicle.
The Senate Armed Services Committee held a hearing this week on defense innovation and acquisition reform:
Wicker seeks 'game changer' in latest round of DOD acquisition reform
Pentagon acquisition reform is a near-annual legislative priority that continues to enjoy bipartisan support in Congress, with the Senate Armed Services Committee holding a hearing on defense innovation this week that highlighted the broad agreement between Republicans, Democrats and defense company executives that the current system of development and procurement takes too long to compete with China.
Document: Senate hearing on defense innovation and acquisition reform
In a letter to the Pentagon, a group of industrial base organizations "question whether the decision to apply [certain] disclosure requirements to commercial products is truly in the [Defense] Department's best interest":
Contracting coalition urges Pentagon to drop commercial products from proposed foreign obligations disclosure rule
A coalition of industry groups who are part of the defense industrial base are pushing back against a proposed rule establishing requirements to disclose foreign obligations for commercial products under the Defense Department’s acquisition regulations.
Document: Contracting coalition's letter to DOD on COTS obligation rule