The INSIDER daily digest -- May 6, 2021

By John Liang / May 6, 2021 at 1:32 PM

This Thursday INSIDER Daily Digest has coverage of the Space Force's new digital service vision, the Army's new network capability and more.

Chief of Space Operations Gen. John Raymond has made it a priority to build digital processes and infrastructure into the foundation of the Space Force to "accelerate innovation" within the service:

Space Force releases digital vision, eyes standup of unclassified Digital Engineering Ecosystem

The Space Force today released a vision document describing its plans to become a digital service and outlining four areas where it intends to focus its investment: digital engineering, headquarters, operations and workforce.

Document: Space Force vision for a digital service

The Army has outlined a plan to field capability sets in two-year increments after trying to find a balance between how quickly it can adopt new technology while also not "overburdening" the force with things they can't "train and sustain":

Army leveraging commercial satellites, data fabrics for new network capability set

Army leaders in charge of modernizing the tactical network are leveraging commercial technologies, such as communications satellites and federated data fabrics and are working toward network convergence while developing the service's next capability set.

Inside Defense this morning interviewed Phil Skuta, General Dynamics' director of business development for the Marine Corps and Navy, about the company's work on the Marine Corps Advanced Reconnaissance Vehicle competition:

General Dynamics touts experience, innovation in ARV competition

General Dynamics is aiming to build on its technology demonstration prototype as it bids to develop and build the Marine Corps Advanced Reconnaissance Vehicle.

The Army will create a common method to score reliability for the Integrated Air and Missile Defense Battle Command System and the legacy products it works with:

Army outlines IBCS changes mandated after milestone C review

REDSTONE ARSENAL, AL -- The Pentagon's acquisition executive ordered several changes to the Integrated Air and Missile Defense Battle Command System when the program was given approval to move to low-rate initial production, according to an Army official.

A previously unreported capability, called Defense Against Hypersonic Weapons in the Pacific, has been operational for nearly two years and was developed by the Missile Defense Agency in response to a U.S. Indo-Pacific Command request in September 2016:

MDA outfits INDOPACOM with Defense Against Hypersonic Weapons in Pacific

The U.S. military has quietly developed and deployed a new operational capability in the Indo-Pacific region to detect and track hypersonic weapons, repurposing existing sensors and command and control systems to display tracks of ultra-fast maneuvering vehicles -- such as those being fielded in increasing numbers by China -- in a development that sheds new light on Pentagon efforts to improve missile warning and missile defense missions.

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