Monday, May 13, 2024
Monday, May 13, 2024
The Air Force's KC-46 tanker, an Army services contract and Raytheon's Standard Missile program are among the highlights in this week's INSIDER Daily Digest.
The Air Force's KC-46 airborne refueling tanker program is delayed yet again:
Air Force projects KC-46 delivery delay from December 2017 to late spring 2018
After a recent KC-46 schedule risk assessment, the Air Force is projecting delivery of the first new tanker will be pushed from December 2017 to late spring of 2018.
A recent Army services contract award is being protested:
Protest filed on Army's RS3 contract vehicle; further awards expected
Proteus Technologies has filed a protest with the Government Accountability Office over an Army contract vehicle worth up to $37 billion.
DOD wants to combine the SM-6 and SM-3 Block 1 programs into one big contract:
DOD may bundle two major weapons programs into single multiyear contract
The Defense Department is contemplating bundling a pair of major defense acquisition programs into a single multiyear contract, a notional arrangement to consolidate purchases of two different Raytheon-built Standard Missiles that could lock in approximately $1 billion annually to the Pentagon's budget for the missile-defense projects.
Coverage of DARPA's $3.1 billion FY-18 budget request:
DARPA budget proposes new cyber, machine-learning projects
The Defense Department's advanced research wing is seeking funds for several new projects in fiscal year 2018, including three cybersecurity programs and a pair of novel machine-learning efforts.
Cyber testing could be getting more money in the upcoming fiscal year:
Operational testers want increased funding for cyber testing
The Pentagon's operational testers are seeking additional funds in the budget request to better replicate adversaries in the cyber domain and to set standards, policies and practices for the testing of "cyber payloads," according to budget documentation.
Members of multiple units were in Yavoriv, Ukraine as part of the Joint Multinational Training Group:
Guard commander outlines combat training center development in Ukraine
The United States is working with local forces to develop a combat training center in Ukraine, according to Col. Nick Ducich, commander of the 79th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, who returned from a recent deployment.
Without an increase, the new requirement to program funds for Israeli BMD threatens to pinch U.S. BMD efforts:
MDA's 'placeholder' spending plan pits Israeli missile defense funding against U.S. programs
The Missile Defense Agency's five-year spending forecast includes a new first: a budget line for Israeli procurement that sets aside funding beginning in fiscal year 2019 in accordance with a new 10-year security assistance agreement between Washington and Tel Aviv that threatens to squeeze U.S. missile defense programs if MDA's planned budget topline is not increased.
Gen. Mark Milley characterized APS as "a critical need" during a congressional hearing this week:
Milley eyes competition for APS down the line
The Army, which is currently conducting non-developmental item testing on a trio of active protection systems for its combat vehicles, ultimately expects to hold a competition among U.S. industry for the technology, according to the service's chief of staff.