The INSIDER daily digest -- May 24, 2018

By John Liang / May 24, 2018 at 2:11 PM

News on the first head of Army Futures Command leads off this Thursday INSIDER Daily Digest.

Inside Defense has the scoop on who will be the first head of Army Futures Command:

General selected to lead Army Futures Command

Army senior leaders have selected Lt. Gen. Mike Murray to lead Army Futures Command, slated to reach initial operational capability in July of this year.

The Air Force's Space Enterprise Consortium stands to get a lot more money:

Air Force increases funding ceiling for new Space Enterprise Consortium

The Air Force recently upped the funding ceiling of its new space prototyping consortium from $100 million to $500 million due to its initial success and popularity within the Defense Department.

Document: Air Force energetic charged particles RFI

The Pentagon's chief information officer was on Capitol Hill this week:

DOD working to catalog all installed software by year's end

The Defense Department is expecting to have an inventory of all its installed software by December, according to DOD Chief Information Officer Dana Deasy.

The Army's Joint Light Tactical Vehicle program could be getting a funding cut:

Source: Senate panel whacks JLTV procurement, cuts $250M from Army's FY-19 request

Lawmakers have proposed a nearly 20 percent cut to the Army's planned procurement of the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle in fiscal year 2019, a surprise blow to one of the service's major modernization efforts just as the Oshkosh-led manufacturing program is poised to accelerate production.

Procuring solid-rocket motors could soon become a problem:

GBSD program could threaten solid-rocket motor industrial base, DOD report says

The Pentagon's annual assessment of the defense industrial base shares concerns with Capitol Hill about the future of solid-rocket motors, including the potential for competition and continued research and development in the face of the Ground-Based Strategic Deterrent program.

Document: DOD's FY-18 industrial capabilities report

The Navy's newest aircraft carrier continues to have testing challenges:

Navy could not fully test CVN-78 redesigned propulsion plant on land

The Navy's redesigned propulsion plant for the multibillion-dollar aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) was the cause of the ship having to return to port in Norfolk, VA, before the end of a test period, and the service confirmed the modified system was not fully tested on land before going to sea.

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