The INSIDER daily digest -- May 7, 2019

This Tuesday INSIDER Daily Digest has coverage of the Pentagon's latest legislative proposals and more.

Inside Defense obtained the Pentagon's latest batch of legislative proposals. Here's our coverage so far:

Pentagon again seeks to restrict bid protest process

The Pentagon, as in previous years, has sent Congress a legislative proposal to impose bid protest timeliness rules at the U.S. Court of Federal Claims that would mirror those at the Government Accountability Office, with the intent to reduce decision times and block contractors from lodging protests with both entities.

DOD requests authority for F-35 EOQ; multiyear decision expected in FY-21

The Defense Department is requesting congressional authority to award economic order quantity contracts for F-35 production lots 15 through 17 and is still determining whether to pursue a multi-year deal for those aircraft.

Capt. Pete Small, program manager for unmanned maritime systems, spoke to attendees at this week's Sea Air Space Symposium in National Harbor, MD:

Despite change in Truman plan, Navy unmanned program manager 'optimistic' on funding

Despite an abrupt reversal on plans to retire the aircraft carrier Harry Truman (CVN-75), the program manager responsible for a large portfolio targeted for investment in lieu of the ship's midlife refueling said he's "optimistic" the Navy will not cut his funding.

Scott Spence, Raytheon's Naval Radar Systems senior director, told Inside Defense this week the company will deliver the "first sets of hardware" for the radar, commonly referred to as SPY-6, to Huntington Ingalls Industries:

Raytheon to begin delivering SPY-6 hardware for Arleigh Burke Flight III this week

Raytheon this week will begin delivering hardware for its new Air and Missile Defense Radar that is slated for the Navy's newest Arleigh Burke-class destroyers, according to a company executive.

Inside Defense recently chatted with Col. Chuck Worshim, the Army's cruise missile defense systems project manager:

Army expected to decide path forward for IFPC this fall

The Army is planning to decide by the end of this fiscal year the path forward for the Indirect Fire Protection Capability Program, whether it be using a set of American systems or a "componentized" version of the Israeli Iron Dome system, according to a program official.