Thursday, April 25, 2024
Thursday, April 25, 2024
This Friday INSIDER Daily Digest has news on Army Robotic Combat Vehicles, a proposed Army cyber reserve program, the Joint Warfighting Concept and more.
Inside Defense interviewed the Army's director of the Next Generation Combat Vehicle Cross-Functional Team:
Army RCV experiments serve as 'mythbusting,' NGCV director says
The Army's experiments with soldiers and Robotic Combat Vehicles are "mythbusting" the ways that robots will and will not change the battlefield, Maj. Gen. Ross Coffman, the director of the Next Generation Combat Vehicle Cross-Functional Team, told Inside Defense in a May 5 interview.
Christine Wormuth testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee this week on her nomination to become Army secretary:
Wormuth 'very interested' in exploring cyber reserve program
Christine Wormuth, President Biden's pick for Army secretary, said today during her Senate Armed Services Committee nomination hearing that if confirmed she would be open to creating a cyber reserve program for the service.
Document: Wormuth's nomination testimony
Missile Defense Agency Director Vice Adm. Jon Hill spoke this week at an online event hosted by the Naval Postgraduate School:
MDA looks to adapt existing booster tech with modified kill vehicles for rapid counter-hypersonic fielding
The Missile Defense Agency is utilizing a two-track approach to develop and field a layered counter-hypersonic capability -- adapting mature booster and kill-vehicle technology for the first iterations of a glide-phase and terminal defeat system while working on a longer-term solution based on a clean-sheet design of a weapon optimized for ultra-high-speed operations inside the atmosphere.
Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. John Hyten spoke this week at the Fiscal Year 2022 McAleese Defense Programs conference:
Hyten: Forthcoming joint directives to include mandate to share data across weapon systems
The Joint Staff will publish directives this month laying out the strategic concepts underpinning the new Joint Warfighting Concept, including requirements for data to be shared across all Defense Department weapon systems, according to the Pentagon's No. 2 military officer.
More coverage from the McAleese conference:
Pentagon continues to seek billions in pandemic-related costs
Acting Pentagon acquisition chief Stacy Cummings said the Defense Department still needs at least $11 billion in supplemental funding from Congress to support defense contractors with pandemic-related costs and avoid cutting modernization programs and military readiness accounts.
Gilday: Columbia, shipyards, sealift recapitalization top Navy FY-22 budget priorities
The Navy's premier fiscal year 2022 budget priorities are keeping the Columbia-class submarine program on track, pursuing its shipyard revitalization efforts and recapitalizing the service's sealift fleet, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Michael Gilday said Thursday.
Richardson: Air Force One supplier issues 'definitely a setback'
Performance issues linked to one of Boeing's Air Force One suppliers will impact the program's schedule, though the Air Force has not yet determined the scope of that impact, according to the service's military deputy for acquisition.