Wednesday, April 23, 2025
Wednesday, April 23, 2025
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This Thursday INSIDER Daily Digest has news on the yearlong continuing resolution, plus the Golden Dome missile defense initiative and more.
We start off with House and Senate appropriators giving the Pentagon their thoughts on how fiscal year 2025 funding should be spent:
Appropriators look to guide DOD spending during uncharted yearlong CR
Republican chairmen of the House and Senate Appropriations committees have sent a blueprint to the Defense Department for how they would like to see funding spent in fiscal year 2025, though the Pentagon, which is operating under a yearlong continuing resolution, is in uncharted territory, according to documents obtained by Inside Defense.
Document: Appropriators' FY-25 DOD funding tables
Some missile defense news:
Boost-phase intercept 'not worth' investment, former Trump top weapons officials warn
Top Pentagon weapons technology development officials from the first Trump administration are pouring cold water on renewed calls for a space-based, boost-phase intercept capability as part of the second Trump administration's Golden Dome missile defense vision.
Senior DOD official highlights 'monster' challenges with Golden Dome
The Defense Department is just beginning to wrestle with the challenges associated with the "Golden Dome" missile defense initiative ordered by President Trump, including who will lead it, according to a senior Pentagon official.
The latest on the Pentagon's Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program from our colleagues at Inside Cybersecurity:
Pentagon posts CMMC presentation slides on alignment with NIST standards, FedRAMP equivalency
The Defense Department is providing new details on elements of its Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program through presentation slides on alignment with National Institute of Standards and Technology standards and a 2023 memo on equivalency with the General Services Administration’s FedRAMP program.
Senior executives from defense contractors L3Harris, ShieldAI, Sierra Nevada, Palantir, Anduril and Kratos all think a major Pentagon acquisition program will face the axe before the end of this year:
Defense tech execs predict at least one $1B+ program will be killed by year's end
Defense industry executives expect the Trump administration's cost-cutting advisory team will come for at least one billion-dollar Pentagon program by the end of 2025, with a former congressman saying it shouldn't stop there.