Friday, December 6, 2024
Friday, December 6, 2024
This Tuesday INSIDER Daily Digest has news on unmanned systems, plus the Biden administration threatening a veto of House appropriators' proposed FY-25 defense spending legislation and more.
We start off with some unmanned systems news:
Navy starts market research for submarine-launched UAVs
The Navy is seeking sources for the manufacture of the Submarine Launch Unmanned Aerial System All-Up-Round, a system that consists of an unmanned aerial vehicle and launch canister -- important technology amid widespread Navy efforts to invest in unmanned systems.
DIU to spend almost half of $1 billion congressional FY-24 funding on ongoing projects like Replicator
The Defense Innovation Unit announced it has created a spending plan to handle the nearly $1 billion injection of funds from Congress, which will send roughly half of the funding toward ongoing projects, like the Replicator initiative, in attempts to further DIU 3.0's strategy.
The Biden administration disagrees with the House's version of the fiscal year 2025 defense spending bill enough to threaten a veto:
White House threatens to veto House defense spending bill
President Biden would veto the GOP-led House's version of the fiscal year 2025 defense appropriations bill if it were to pass in its current form, according to a new statement of administration policy from the White House Office of Management and Budget.
Document: OMB statement of administration policy on House's FY-25 defense spending bill
U.S. Space Command is looking to leverage existing technologies to make the data it receives easier to digest:
SPACECOM to test data-merging capabilities
U.S. Space Command is planning to create a test case to develop data-fusion methods to better organize and display the mass amounts of data pouring into the command, Commander Gen. Stephen Whiting disclosed this week.
Several House and Senate Democrats believe the Defense Department may not be conducting a "comprehensive, thorough and unbiased assessment" of the LGM-35A Sentinel intercontinental ballistic missile system:
Democrat lawmakers question credibility of Sentinel nuclear missile Nunn-McCurdy review
Several Democrats worry the Pentagon isn't taking its review of the Sentinel nuclear missile program seriously following a critical cost breach in the program, according to a letter sent to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin.
Document: Democrat lawmakers' letter on Sentinel ICBM
Jennifer Swanson, the Army's deputy assistant secretary for data, engineering and software, spoke with reporters last week at the Pentagon:
Digital twins help replicate capabilities and find root causes of problems
The Army's use of digital twins helps "replicate capabilities" and "identify root causes of problems" when it comes to the development of combat and tactical vehicles that are designed for deployment in operational environments, according to a service engineering official.