Wednesday, April 24, 2024
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
This Tuesday INSIDER Daily Digest has news on the House Appropriations Committee's fiscal year 2023 defense spending bill, using Navy destroyers' radars to track objects in space and more.
We start off with the defense spending bill House appropriators will be working on this week:
House defense appropriators move to cut procurement, raise R&D spending
The House Appropriations defense subcommittee is proposing a spending bill that would cut Pentagon procurement by $1 billion below the level enacted in fiscal year 2022, but would boost research and development funding by $12.5 billion above the FY-22 enacted level, according to a legislative summary released by Democratic lawmakers.
Lawmakers want to block decommissioning of five LCS in House approps bill
The House Appropriations defense subcommittee has proposed a spending bill that would save five out of the nine Littoral Combat Ships pegged to be decommissioned in the Navy's fiscal year 2023 budget request.
Document: House appropriators' draft FY-23 defense spending bill
A new Pentagon initiative involves a software upgrade to the Aegis weapon system which controls the SPY-1 radar on ballistic missile defense-capable Arleigh Burke-class destroyers -- a sensor that has long had the ability to detect satellites and will do so now in coordination with the larger U.S. military space surveillance and command and control enterprises:
MDA readies missile defense destroyers for new 'big deal' mission: tracking space objects
The Defense Department is readying Navy destroyers equipped for ballistic missile defense operations for a second full-time, simultaneous mission: assisting the Space Force with situational awareness of the heavens in a move that aims to leverage nearly 30 Aegis ships with SPY-1 radars to help fill gaps in the Space Surveillance Network.
The family of Littoral Explosive Ordnance Neutralization systems aims to provide safe maneuver within the littoral regions -- helping the Explosive Ordnance Disposal community and the service as a whole:
Marine Corps exercising LEON's network capability during RIMPAC
CAMP PENDLETON, CA -- The Marine Corps is leveraging a networked Littoral Explosive Ordnance Neutralization system in the world's largest international maritime exercise this summer.
With Defense Innovation Unit Director Michael Brown slated to step down in the coming months, DIU may be facing an uncertain future as it seeks to rebound from a fiscal year 2022 budget that included a more than 20% reduction while military spending neared $800 billion:
Vaunted Defense Innovation Unit nearing inflection point
The Defense Innovation Unit, known for being the Pentagon's Silicon Valley outreach team, could be headed for a crossroads as it is poised to lose its longest-serving leader at a time when some in Congress -- critical of top military officials' commitment to the highly visible but small-budget organization -- are rallying to boost investment in the outfit.