Friday, April 19, 2024
Friday, April 19, 2024
This Wednesday INSIDER Daily Digest has news on the Pentagon's latest omnibus reprogramming request plus coverage of the House Armed Services Committee marking up the fiscal year 2021 defense policy bill.
We start off with coverage of the Pentagon's latest omnibus reprogramming request, which Inside Defense obtained:
DOD seeks OK to shift $2 billion between accounts, launch new starts and SPACECOM
The Pentagon is seeking congressional permission to shift $2 billion between budget accounts as part of an annual reallocation of funds the U.S. military has in hand, launch five new-start projects and shift funds the Defense Department says are required immediately to achieve U.S. Space Command "critical mission capability."
New reprogramming would shift USAF funds to support bomb production, counter-UAS
The Air Force is asking lawmakers to approve a funding transfer to support additional production efforts for general purpose bombs and integrate counter-small unmanned aerial system software into enterprise systems.
The full House Armed Services Committee today is marking up the fiscal year 2021 defense authorization bill:
Echoing Senate criticisms, House lawmakers pressing Navy on ship subsystem failures
A House panel wants the Navy to detail how many times it has accepted a ship in the past two decades before completing work on major subsystems and explain the circumstances that led to the acceptance decision.
The Defense Department inspector general has found cybersecurity problems with the U.S. military's artificial intelligence assets:
Pentagon watchdog finds military's AI data, technologies at risk of cyberattack
The data and technologies supporting the U.S. military's artificial intelligence developments could be at risk of cyberattack because the Defense Department and its contractors neglected to use important security controls, according to a new audit.
Some Joint Strike Fighter news:
Lockheed demonstrates virtual training capability that connects F-35s to multiple USAF aircraft
The F-35 program team recently demonstrated a key Distributed Mission Training milestone, connecting the Joint Strike Fighter with the F-22, F-16 and E3 Sentry in a simulated, highly contested environment, prime contractor Lockheed Martin announced today.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Air Force's third GPS III satellite this week:
Space Force, SpaceX launch third GPS satellite, recover Falcon 9 booster
The Space Force today successfully launched the third GPS III satellite from a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket -- the company's second GPS mission and the Defense Department's launch to include a booster recovery.