The INSIDER daily digest -- July 11, 2023

This Tuesday INSIDER Daily Digest has news on a recent test where a Patriot interceptor was able to communicate with a SPY-1 radar, the White House submitting its latest statement of administration policy on the defense authorization bill and more.

In late June, Lockheed Martin and the Navy concluded weeks of testing in New Jersey where a static PAC-3 MSE -- outfitted with a newly designed s-band datalink and located at the company’s Moorestown facility -- traded information with a SPY-1 radar about a mile away at the sea service's Combat System Engineering Development Site, also called the Cornfield Cruiser:

Datalink connecting PAC-3 MSE to SPY-1 demonstrated; flight test, possible DOD funding next

Lockheed Martin and the Navy conducted a successful ground test of a prototype datalink that allowed an Army Patriot guided-missile interceptor -- the PAC-3 Missile Segment Enhancement -- to communicate with a Navy SPY-1 radar, validating design of the communication device and clearing the project to advance toward a planned flight test later this year.

The White House Office of Management and Budget has submitted its statement of administration policy regarding the House version of the fiscal year 2024 defense authorization bill:

OMB: House panel's National Missile Defense legislation destabilizing, unaffordable, undoable

The Biden administration is balking at a House proposal the executive branch argues could upend two decades of missile defense policy by expanding the limited objective of defending the nation against intercontinental ballistic missile attack from North Korea and Iran to shielding the nation from the massive nuclear arsenals of Russia and China.

White House opposes several weapons provisions in House defense bill

Though the White House "strongly supports" enactment of the annual defense authorization bill for the 63rd consecutive year, the Office of Management and Budget has detailed provisions related to weapon systems and other areas that it opposes in the House version of the legislation scheduled for a vote this week.

A proposed new anti-tank system would consist of three modules: a launch tube, unmanned aerial system and fire control station:

New LASSO program aims to give Army infantry units loitering, tank-killing punch

The Army is kicking off an "urgent" acquisition effort to give dismounted infantry a new tank-killing capability: a man-portable, tube-launched, kamikaze uncrewed aircraft called the Low Altitude Stalking and Strike Ordnance (LASSO) program -- the latest indication of how the Russia-Ukraine war is changing modern combat.

In asking for industry feedback on lessons learned from the Ukraine war, the Army notes future warfare will involve an "interactively complex battlefield":

As Ukraine war continues, Army wants to assess lessons learned in 'real-time threat forecasting'

The Army is trying to gather information on the lessons learned from the war in Ukraine as they apply to "real-time threat forecasting," according to a government notice from last month.