Thursday, April 25, 2024
Thursday, April 25, 2024
The Army's interim SHORAD capability, a recent cyberattack against a Navy contractor and more highlight this Friday INSIDER Daily Digest.
The House Appropriations Committee is recommending funding the Army's $108 million request to develop and field an interim Maneuver Short Range Air Defense capability:
Lawmakers back Army's IM-SHORAD rapid acquisition to counter low-flying Russian threats
Lawmakers are lining up to support the Army's fast-track project to rapidly develop and field an air- and missile-defense system that can be bolted onto the Stryker vehicle, a potential billion-dollar effort to harden ground forces in Europe from Russian threats which service leaders did not formally validate until after the Pentagon submitted its fiscal year 2019 budget to Congress.
A recent Navy contractor cyberattack involved "technical information" residing on the contractor's unclassified networks:
'Damage assessment' ongoing in hack of Navy contractor
The Pentagon has an ongoing damage assessment into the hack of a Navy contractor's networks that reportedly saw China steal troves of data on a sensitive program to outfit submarines with a supersonic, anti-ship missile.
DOD is embarking on a "technology industrial base review" this year to assess whether the United States can meet goals laid out in the Pentagon's forthcoming modernization strategy, according to Kristen Baldwin, acting deputy assistant secretary of defense for systems engineering:
Pentagon plans review of U.S. 'technology industrial base'
The Pentagon, on the heels of completing a review of its manufacturing industrial base, will soon begin studying whether U.S. industry is prepared to deliver the game-changing technologies the Defense Department seeks to field in the future.
A House lawmaker this week urged Levy and the department to negotiate for data rights at the start of a program:
Air Force sustainment chief stresses importance of intellectual property
The head of the Air Force Sustainment Center told lawmakers Thursday the intellectual property that supports weapon system development has become more valuable than the actual hardware -- a shift that has sparked some concern among lawmakers and the Defense Department as they struggle to negotiate with industry for access to those data rights.
Within the next six months, Navy leadership will decide the way ahead for future attack submarine repair work:
Moore: Navy may competitively bid future attack sub maintenance
The Navy may offer more attack submarine work to private industry, which would be a reversal of its current maintenance structure, according to a senior official.