The INSIDER daily digest -- May 22, 2025

This Thursday INSIDER Daily Digest has news on the Space Force's Resilient GPS effort, the Army's Future Long Range Assault Aircraft program and more.

The Space Force issued Axient -- now part of Astrion -- a stop-work order on the Resilient GPS program in January, service spokeswoman Laura McAndrews confirmed this week. Meanwhile, Astranis, Sierra Space and L3Harris successfully completed design concept reviews:

Three vendors complete R-GPS reviews, Space Force drops one from contract

Three vendors for the Space Force's Resilient GPS effort have successfully completed design concept reviews, a service spokeswoman told Inside Defense, while one contractor was removed from the program.

The Army's top uniformed and civilian officials have mapped out the timeline of the Future Long Range Assault Aircraft program:

Army leaders mulling 'wartime footing' for aggressive scale-up of FLRAA program

Army Secretary Dan Driscoll has announced an ambitious new timeline for the Future Long Range Assault Aircraft program that, if successful, would yield two dozen MV-75 prototypes in two years.

We have more coverage from last week's Army Aviation Association of America conference:

Army aviation official says he expects FVL CFT to be consolidated with CDID

NASHVILLE, TN -- With the Army's recently announced impending merger of Army Futures Command and Training and Doctrine Command, the Future Vertical Lift Cross Functional Team will likely be consolidated into its respective Capability Development Integration Directorate (CDID), a service aviation official told Inside Defense last week at the Army Aviation Association of America conference.

(Read our full Quad-A coverage.)

On May 21, the Missile Defense Agency published a pre-solicitation notice stating its Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense effort will be competed on a full and open basis, with the government planning to make awards to all offerors with technically acceptable proposals:

MDA unveils $151 billion SHIELD plan to advance Golden Dome

The Missile Defense Agency has unveiled plans for a contract vehicle that could reshape the future of U.S. missile defense, outlining a $151 billion procurement framework to field next-generation capabilities across nearly every dimension of the enterprise.

Several contractors are vying for a piece of the Marine Corps' Landing Ship Medium pie:

Construction of Marine Corps' Ancillary Surface Craft to begin this summer

Contractors Birdon and C&C Marine and Repair are set to begin production of two prototype vessels designed to carry gear and personnel and perform beach landings under a contract with the Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory linked to the service's Landing Ship Medium and interim bridging solution efforts.