Saturday, May 24, 2025
Saturday, May 24, 2025
Today’s INSIDER Daily Digest starts off with the aircraft carrier industry warning of production interruptions without more funding, the Space Force is examining how it writes requirements, some cyber CMMC news, the Army has had its LTAMDS buy cut in half in 2025, and more.
The folks who build aircraft carriers say there could be productions slowdowns if the Navy doesn’t get more money:
Industry warns of ‘cold’ production lines for aircraft carriers, asks for more AP funding
Aircraft carrier industrial base members prepared today to plead their case on Capitol Hill, asking for $600 million in advanced procurement funding for the fifth Gerald R. Ford-class carrier (CVN-82) in fiscal year 2026, and for contract awards to be granted no later than FY-29.
Space Force officials are looking at how they write program requirements:
Space Force reworking requirements-writing process to harness industry innovation
The Space Force is refining its requirements-writing process to be more flexible and allow greater industry innovation while still ensuring new programs will meet mission needs, Chief of Space Operations Gen. Chance Saltzman said today.
Looks like a key date for the CMMC program may be slipping:
Timing for second CMMC rulemaking could face hurdles amid Trump directives on deregulation
The Defense Department's plan to finalize the second rulemaking for the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program by mid-2025 is starting to slip as the Pentagon works to meet requirements from President Trump’s Jan. 31 executive order on deregulation.
The recently passed continuing resolution has given the Army some, but not all, of the money it needs in 2025 for the LTAMDS effort:
Army got back some LTAMDS funding in CR, but will have to wait on buying two prototypes
HUNTSVILLE, AL -- The Army’s Lower Tier Air and Missile Defense Sensor program won’t experience quite as steep a cut under the recently passed continuing resolution, compared with congressional appropriators’ original marks. But the service still won’t be able to purchase two of the four prototype radars it had planned to procure in fiscal year 2025, the program executive officer says.
An Army UAS endeavor will see significant growth through its next phase:
Army 'Transforming in Contact' initiative's next phase will include thousands of drones, counter drones
HUNTSVILLE, AL -- The Army's "Transforming in Contact" initiative, started more than a year ago, will grow significantly in its next phase to include thousands of unmanned systems, counter UAS systems and mobility platforms, a service official said today.
While layoffs are occurring across the government, the Navy’s civilian workers are mostly unaffected:
Navy's civilian workforce is largely intact amid Trump admin layoffs, service officials say
Civilian Navy personnel involved in the design, construction and maintenance of the service's fleet have largely been spared from the sweeping federal layoffs being carried out by the Trump administration, two Navy officials told lawmakers today.