Friday, April 19, 2024
Friday, April 19, 2024
This Wednesday INSIDER Daily Digest has news on comments Pentagon acquisition chief Ellen Lord made during the McAleese conference in Washington along with the future of the Air Force's A-10 Warthog close-air-support aircraft and more.
The Defense Department's top acquisition official spoke at a defense industry conference this morning:
Lord: SCO building mobile nuclear reactor to power overseas military outposts
Pentagon acquisition chief Ellen Lord today said the secretive Strategic Capabilities Office is working to prototype a mobile nuclear reactor that could power U.S. military installations in remote locations.
Lord says U.S. allies interested in adopting CMMC standards
Pentagon acquisition chief Ellen Lord said today that U.S. allies are eying the new Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification process for possible adoption in their own countries.
More defense cyber news from our colleagues at Inside Cybersecurity:
DOD says binding agreement with cyber certification board to be announced soon
Pentagon acquisition officials are nearing a legally binding agreement with the industry-based accreditation body recently formed to certify auditors who will be expected to assess the cybersecurity of more than a thousand contractors this year.
Lawmakers this week told Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Goldfein and Secretary Barbara Barrett their proposal to retire a number of A-10 Warthog close-air-support aircraft appears to violate defense authorization bill language:
Lawmakers push back on USAF plan to retire 44 A-10s
House and Senate lawmakers this week questioned Air Force leadership on the service's proposal to retire 44 A-10s in fiscal year 2021, despite language in the FY-17 National Defense Authorization Act that prohibits them from doing so.
The Senate Armed Services seapower subcommittee held a hearing this morning on Navy shipbuilding plans:
Navy leader says aircraft carrier strike groups have defense against hypersonic threats
The Navy's marquee surface combatant force -- the aircraft carrier strike group -- is equipped today with technologies capable of defeating adversary maneuvering hypersonic weapons, a top admiral told Congress, suggesting the sea service has stitched together a shield to defend against a new class of ultra-fast weapons widely viewed as invincible.
Perdue: Esper's withholding of Navy shipbuilding plan from Congress 'unacceptable'
A key senator this morning called Defense Secretary Mark Esper's decision to withhold from Congress the Navy's newest shipbuilding plan "unacceptable" and promised to publicly hold the Pentagon's top official accountable at a Senate hearing later today.
More of our coverage from the West 2020 Conference in San Diego:
NAVAIR chief: NGAD cannot take as long as F-35 development
SAN DIEGO -- The Naval Air Systems Command chief said yesterday the service cannot afford to take as long to develop its sixth-generation fighter aircraft as it did the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.
NNSA Administrator Lisa Gordon-Hagerty told the House Armed Services strategic forces subcommittee this week that her organization's fiscal year 2021 funding request followed a "requirements-based" approach to "resolve the decades-long neglect" of the U.S. nuclear arsenal:
Top nuclear official pressed to defend proposed budget boost
House lawmakers today pressed the chief of the National Nuclear Security Administration on the proposal to increase NNSA's funding by $3 billion in fiscal year 2021 when the agency already has $8 billion in unspent funds from previous years.