Tuesday, April 30, 2024
Tuesday, April 30, 2024
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This Monday INSIDER Daily Digest has the latest on the Marine Corps' Force Design 2030 initiative, defense contractors taking financial hits on fixed-price contracts and more.
The Marine Corps this morning released an annual update to its Force Design 2030 initiative:
Marine Corps continues development of new recon units, MLR capabilities with Force Design update
As the Marine Corps begins the fourth year of its Force Design modernization effort, the service is continuing its push to improve the mobility and lethality of its stand-in forces by establishing new reconnaissance battalions, solidifying operating concepts for its Marine Littoral Regiments and continuing to experiment with new technologies.
Document: Marine Corps' force design 2030 annual update
L3Harris Technologies CEO Chris Kubasik recently spoke at the Bernstein Strategic Decisions Conference held in New York:
L3Harris CEO: Industry turning away from fixed-price development contracts
L3Harris Technologies, and likely other defense contractors, won't continue bidding for fixed-price contracts, CEO Chris Kubasik said Thursday.
The Missile Defense Agency has awarded a sole-source, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to Raytheon Technologies -- the second of three planned, sole-source Ground-based Midcourse Defense System sustainment contracts:
MDA awards penultimate contract in project to break up legacy GMD sustainment
The Defense Department has awarded Raytheon Technologies a new deal as part of the project to break up the former Ground-based Midcourse Defense system continuing sustainment and development contract -- executing a potential $621 million, five-year package to keep modern and operational exoatmospheric kill vehicles in the deployed homeland defense interceptor fleet.
A recent Pentagon inspector general's report determines "the extent to which the DOD developed guidance, conducted training, and oversaw the implementation of the DOD Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) Program":
DOD watchdog finds oversight lacking on 'controlled unclassified' info restrictions
The Defense Department inspector general has found the Pentagon does not "effectively oversee" officials who mark government documents as "controlled unclassified information," potentially restricting transparency without an appropriate rationale.
Document: DOD IG report on CUI program implementation
The compromise federal debt ceiling bill, passed by the House and Senate and subsequently signed by the president, would fund total defense at $886 billion, with a 1% increase in FY-25:
GOP senators want 'emergency defense supplemental' to follow latest spending deal
Several GOP senators, including Sen. Susan Collins (ME), the ranking member on the Senate Appropriations Committee, said today they want a commitment from the White House and Senate Democrats to support an “emergency defense supplemental” following the passage of a deal that would raise the federal debt ceiling and lock in defense spending at levels they deem inadequate.