The INSIDER daily digest -- March 18, 2019

This Monday INSIDER Daily Digest has coverage of the Army's FY-20 budget justification books and more.

Here is our coverage so far of the Army's fiscal year 2020 budget justification books:

Army starting $50M project to integrate advanced seeker into GMLRS

The Army is planning to start a new, three-year effort to integrate an advanced seeker into the Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System long-range precision fire weapon as part of a nearly $140 million program in fiscal year 2020.

Army unveils $228M Strategic Long-Range Cannon program

The Army has lifted the veil on its plans for a Strategic Long Range Cannon, outlining a $228 million, three-year funding project that aims to mature technologies for both weapons and munitions in order to one day dramatically increase the reach of its artillery forces and advance a key leadership priority to bolster the punch of the service's long-range precision fires inventory.

Army Network CFT requesting $40M for new project in FY-20

The Army's network cross-functional team is planning to start a new network unification program in fiscal year 2020, requesting a total of $39.6 million to modernize the service's tactical network.

Army launches new-start Lower Tier Future Interceptor program

The Army wants to launch a new-start Future Interceptor program in fiscal year 2020, a milestone development for the service's lower-tier missile enterprise that envisions a possible follow-on to the Patriot missile, setting the stage for a major competition to provide a new air-and-missile-defense interceptor.

Army planning to stretch AMPV procurement

The Army is seeking to slow-roll procurement of the Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicle, its personnel carrier replacement, to save money for other modernization projects, cutting the number of vehicles it was projected to buy in fiscal year 2021.

Army proposing new Mobile Medium-Range Missile, a $900M development project

The Army's fiscal year 2020 budget request seeks to launch a new "Mobile Medium-Range Missile," a next-generation artillery round and new component of the service's long-range precision fires portfolio, in an estimated $900 million development project that aims to utilize "non-traditional" acquisition rules to address an "extremely high-risk capability gap."

The heads of the House and Senate Armed Services committees have each sent the Pentagon "views and estimates" letters regarding the defense budget:

Smith threatens action on DOD reprogramming 'abuses'; Inhofe calls for budget deal

House Armed Services Committee Chairman Adam Smith (D-WA) is threatening to restrict Defense Department budgetary transfer authority as the Pentagon contemplates overturning decades of precedent to reprogram up to $2.5 billion to fund a wall on the southern border.

Space technology and potential cybersecurity risks have gotten renewed attention from policymakers as the Trump administration is pushing to establish a Space Force at the Pentagon:

Defense industry group backs efforts in establishing space info-sharing organization

A defense industry group involved in tracking and sharing cyber threats has set up an office to provide analysts for the fledgling Air and Space Information Sharing and Analysis Organization located at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

A Huntington Ingalls Industries spokeswoman recently told Inside Defense the shipbuilder could begin constructing the LHA-9 vessel "at least three years" before the scheduled 2025 start date:

HII ready to accelerate LHA-9 construction three years ahead of Navy schedule

Huntington Ingalls Industries is prepared to begin building one of the Navy’s big-deck amphibious ships three years early, a move that would appease lawmakers who have asked the service to accelerate the acquisition program.