Tuesday, April 23, 2024
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
This Tuesday INSIDER Daily Digest has news on when the next budget submission will be sent to Congress, plus a number of Air Force Scientific Advisory Board studies and more.
We now know when the Pentagon's fiscal year 2021 budget request will be submitted to Congress:
White House will submit FY-21 budget Feb. 10
The White House will submit the fiscal year 2021 budget request on Feb. 10, according to Chase Jennings, press secretary for the Office of Management and Budget.
The Air Force Scientific Advisory Board is taking part in studies on autonomous systems and communications technologies:
AFSAB to study JADC2, autonomy, space in FY-20
The Air Force Scientific Advisory Board in fiscal year 2020 is conducting three studies under the direction of the service's secretary that focus on modern communications technology, autonomous systems and space applications, according to a notice published in December.
Document: AFSAB terms of reference memos for CFE, UBA studies
The Defense Science Board has released a public summary of a classified report on the National Leadership Command Capability:
DSB recommends three-part strategy to improve National Leadership Command Capability
A Pentagon advisory board is calling for a more "defensible and resilient" National Leadership Command Capability to shore up weaknesses in the command and control systems used by the president and critical to ensuring continuity of government during a national crisis.
Document: Unclassified version of DSB report on NLCC
Our colleagues at Inside Cybersecurity have a deep dive into the potential ways Iran could use cyber warfare against the United States as retaliation for the assassination of a senior Iranian general:
Heightened U.S.-Iran tensions may bring 'national reckoning' in cyberspace
The U.S. attack on Iran's top general has the cybersecurity community bracing for possible retaliation in cyberspace, while also pointing to the security tools that are in place and the ongoing policy needs that are highlighted by the latest -- perhaps most serious -- clash with a known international cyber aggressor.
Lawmakers are having second thoughts about the Pentagon's chief management officer position:
Congress shifts 'chief data officer' away from CMO's office as Pentagon finalizes data strategy
Congress has shifted the Defense Department's chief data officer position away from the endangered chief management office, while Pentagon officials say the first department-wide data strategy is awaiting Defense Secretary Mark Esper's signature.
The Office of Naval Research is no longer in charge of developing the Sea Hunter unmanned surface vehicle:
Navy shifts Sea Hunter to advance USV development, fleet familiarization, CONOPS
The Navy last month transferred administrative control of the trimaran Sea Hunter -- an experimental prototype medium unmanned surface vehicle that helped launch plans for a fleet of medium and large USVs -- from the Office of Naval Research to Surface Development Command One, on behalf of the Unmanned Maritime Systems program office (PMS-406).
Related: Navy directs CONOPs development for two major unmanned programs