Friday, April 19, 2024
Friday, April 19, 2024
This Tuesday INSIDER Daily Digest has news on military construction funds being used to pay for the president's border wall, Army enterprise information technology and more.
The head of the Senate Armed Services Committee spoke to the media this morning:
Inhofe softens on Shanahan; supports plan to 'backfill' MILCON funds tapped for wall
Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Jim Inhofe (R-OK) tried today to be more supportive of acting Defense Secretary Pat Shanahan than he has been in the past, but said he wishes former Defense Secretary Jim Mattis would return to the Pentagon.
Some related congressional news posted early this morning:
DOD can bypass Congress for $2.5B border wall transfer, but lawmakers could hit back
The Defense Department is signaling it may break with decades of precedent and reprogram $2.5 billion to build President Trump's wall on the southern border without the approval of Congress, a move lawmakers say could imperil billions in annual budgetary flexibility granted to the Pentagon.
Army CIO Lt. Gen. Bruce Crawford spoke at an AUSA breakfast today:
Army to adopt enterprise IT 'as-a-service' model, create cloud program office
The Army's chief information officer/G-6 is planning a new effort to update the Army's enterprise network more quickly, called "Enterprise IT As A Service," and will soon stand up a cloud program office.
Check out some cyber news from our colleagues at Inside Cybersecurity:
NIST revised guidelines for securing sensitive data awaits OMB final review
The highly anticipated release of the National Institute of Standards and Technology's revised guidelines for "controlled unclassified information," which serve as the basis for defense contractor cybersecurity requirements, is awaiting completion of an interagency review being led by the White House Office of Management and Budget, a NIST official told Inside Cybersecurity on Monday.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency wants to develop teenie-tiny robots:
DOD launches work on insect-scale robots for clandestine ops, potential strategic missions
The Pentagon has issued more than a dozen contracts to develop insect-scale robotic technologies needed for a new-class of ultra-small platforms the size of ants that might one day clandestinely move within 10 centimeters of a target.
Document: DARPA's BAA for the SHRIMP program