The INSIDER daily digest -- March 19, 2018

By John Liang / March 19, 2018 at 2:23 PM

CACI wants to top General Dynamics' muiltibillion-dollar bid for CSRA, a Navy study into potential savings in aircraft carrier purchases and more highlight this Monday INSIDER Daily Digest.

Looks like General Dymanics isn't CSRA's only corporate suitor:

CACI wants to buy CSRA, offering larger bid than General Dynamics

CACI International has thrown its hat into the ring in the chase to purchase CSRA, offering more money per share than General Dynamics’ multibillion-dollar bid.

The Navy is looking at how much money it could save by purchasing two aircraft carriers at the same time:

Geurts: Navy issues RFP to analyze savings in two-ship carrier buy

The Navy is taking the first concrete step toward a two-ship carrier purchase by releasing a request for proposals today to Huntington Ingalls Industries' Newport News Shipbuilding to analyze the potential cost savings.

The Air Force recently posted a notice on Federal Business Opportunities stating the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center plans to award General Atomics a sole-source contract to develop an air-to-air missile aviation simulator capability for the MQ-9 Reaper:

USAF mulls adding air-to-air missiles, deployable launch capability to MQ-9

An Air Force spokesman says the possibility of adding air-to-air missiles to the MQ-9 Reaper is still predecisional, following a notice of a pending contract award to General Atomics for a system simulating that capability.

An Army battalion is participating in "follow-on assessments" of advanced networking waveforms beyond those in use today as part of the service's mobile ad-hoc network:

Gallagher: CFT assessing 'integrated tactical network'

The cross-functional team dedicated to modernizing the Army network is evaluating waveform improvements with a view to potential fielding across the Army, according to its director.

An Army cross-functional team has been focused on two key areas: developing a maneuver short-range air defense capability and integrating the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense and Patriot missile defense systems:

Air and missile defense CFT pursuing 'layered and tiered approach'

The cross-functional team focused on air and missile defense modernization has concentrated its early efforts on two urgent requirements, but its director is eyeing longer-range objectives for the next phase of the team's operation.

The Marine Corps is harvesting logistics ideas from enlisted personnel and university graduate students:

Marine Corps to implement logistics idea from enlisted, grad students

Following what Marine Corps organizers said was a first-of-its-kind engagement with graduate students, the service intends to act on ideas from its recent hybrid logistics symposium as quickly as this summer.

U.S. and Israeli military personnel are conducting missile defense drills in Israel this week:

U.S. Army, Israeli air defenders to conduct live-fire mission as part of BMD exercise

U.S. Army and Israeli air defense forces plan to conduct live-fire missile defense missions this week in Israel, the culminating event of a major bilateral exercise that is working through the challenges of creating a single air picture with the aim of integrating the two nations' respective ballistic missile defense systems.

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