Thursday, April 25, 2024
Thursday, April 25, 2024
This Monday INSIDER Daily Digest has news on the Missile Defense Agency's Next Generation Interceptor, the Army's cyber presence and more.
We start off with news from the latest missile defense budget justification books:
DOD details $10B NGI development plan; will pick winning design in FY-25
The Defense Department has mapped out a $10 billion plan to prototype two competing designs for a Next Generation Interceptor, select a winner in 2025 and field by 2027 the new hit-to-kill weapon system top brass say is needed to defeat North Korea's improving inventory of intercontinental ballistic missiles.
Document: MDA's FY-23 budget justification books
Army Chief Information Officer Raj Iyer spoke at the recent AFCEA TechNet Cyber Conference:
Iyer calls for buy-in on Army cyber efforts
The biggest challenges the Army faces in modernizing its cyber presence are related to its personnel, the service's chief information officer said this week.
An F-15E Strike Eagle recently destroyed a full-scale surface vessel in the Gulf of Mexico by releasing a modified GBU-31 Joint Direct Attack Munition:
AFRL successfully tests ship-sinking munitions
The Air Force Research Laboratory Thursday successfully tested an airborne method of sinking ships.
House Armed Services seapower and projection forces subcommittee Chairman Joe Courtney (D-CT) recently spoke about the Australia-U.K.-U.S. partnership:
Courtney: Great potential in Australian industrial base, but will take work
The Australia-U.K.-U.S. partnership has the potential to aid U.S submarines, but it will be a "huge job" for Australia's industrial base, according to a prominent House lawmaker.
Procurement spending on the Precision Strike Missile, a new cruise missile that is one of the Army's 35 priority modernization programs, would increase to $213 million under the service's FY-23 budget request:
PrSM spending would pass $500 million under FY-23 request
The Army wants to spend more than half-a-billion dollars to procure, develop, test and improve the Precision Strike Missile in fiscal year 2023 through multiple lines of effort, as the service ramps up funding for one of its long-range fires priorities.
The House Armed Services readiness subcommittee held a hearing last week on the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program:
Lawmakers frustrated by persistent F-35 issues as program sustainment logs slow improvements
While the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program has logged recent improvements in readiness and sustainment, lawmakers remain frustrated by the persisting issues tied to the military's most expensive weapon system.