Sunday, December 8, 2024
Sunday, December 8, 2024
This pre-Independence Day INSIDER Daily Digest has coverage of a pair of omnibus reprogramming requests that involve the Air Force's Collaborative Combat Aircraft effort and other programs.
On June 28, Pentagon Comptroller Mike McCord submitted a pair of omnibus reprogramming requests to Congress to shift funds appropriated in fiscal years 2024 and 2023 to higher-priority programs in FY-23. Inside Defense obtained a copy of the documents. Here's our coverage so far:
DOD seeks additional funding for CCA -- suffering nearly 40% cost growth -- SM-6, and more
The Pentagon is seeking congressional permission to shift $3.3 billion among budget accounts to launch a handful of new-start projects, including additional funding needed for the Air Force's Collaborative Combat Aircraft program, Army accounts to buy ship-sinking missiles needed for its Mid-Range Capability program and a new Mobile-Long Range Precision Strike Missile.
AF delays procurement of Homeland Defense Over-the-Horizon Radar to 'future' budget
The Defense Department has scrapped plans to launch the Homeland Defense Over the Horizon Radar program this fiscal year, postponing the projected start to at least fiscal year 2026, delaying plans to improve long-range sensor coverage of the United States and Canada from aircraft, cruise missiles, maneuvering hypersonic weapons and ships.
Further coverage of the Government Accountability Office's annual weapon systems report:
Navy's AARGM-ER missile faces schedule delays after testing problems emerge
The Navy's Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile-Extended Range program will not achieve initial operational capability in July as previously expected due to undisclosed challenges that occurred during system testing, according to a program official.
Document: GAO's annual weapon system assessment report
The Marine Corps' top general spoke this week at a Brookings Institution event:
Smith: Classified MQ-9 cloaking pods bring enhanced capability to Marine Corps MLRs
A cloaking pod equipped on the Marine Corps' MQ-9 Reaper drones, making them "mostly undetectable" to enemy radar, is enhancing the surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities of the service's new Marine Littoral Regiments, according to Commandant Gen. Eric Smith.
The Defense Innovation Unit's Opportunistic Resilient and Innovative Expeditionary Network Topology effort is looking for unmanned and autonomous platforms that can guarantee the Navy’s Pacific Fleet’s unmanned vehicle connectivity remains unaffected and maintains the "freedom of navigation and access to waterways":
DIU seeks unmanned solutions to solve swarming network challenges at sea
The Defense Innovation Unit has released solicitations seeking industry technology that can connect hundreds -- or even thousands -- of autonomous weapon systems across great distances at sea.