Friday, April 19, 2024
Friday, April 19, 2024
This Tuesday INSIDER Daily Digest has news on the Aegis Ashore program, the nascent Air Force Warfighting Integration Capability and more.
Aegis Ashore could get an anti-air warfare capability:
MDA exploring options to add anti-air warfare capability to Aegis Ashore
The Missile Defense Agency is moving ahead with assessments that could give the land-based Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense system the means to intercept cruise missiles and aircraft, a new capability Congress mandated be included as part of the next round of improvements to Aegis Ashore systems in Europe.
A new Air Force organization will help the service prioritize what it should fund to combat "moderate-risk" threats if it receives less money than requested:
Strategic planning chief confident AFWIC has tools to succeed
The Air Force's deputy chief of staff for strategic plans and requirements said this week his directorate has the authorities it needs to make the new Air Force Warfighting Integration Capability succeed.
Army Secretary Mark Esper recently spoke at the Atlantic Council:
Esper: Army should be more 'hospitable' to innovators
The Army needs to combine greater outreach to industry -- traditional and otherwise -- with less prescriptive requirements to foster innovation and improve acquisition, according to the service secretary.
The House Armed Services Committee chairman's mark of the FY-19 defense policy bill includes provisions that aim to tighten congressional oversight of the Conventional Prompt Strike program:
Congress eyes conventional hypersonic triad, seeks details of marquee DOD hypersonic project
Draft legislation would require Pentagon brass to validate a requirement for a potential conventional hypersonic strike triad -- setting the stage for a ground-, sea-, and air-launched ultra-fast boost-glide weapon -- along with cost estimates for accelerating initial operational capability of each notional leg of this fledgling new class of weapon.
News from the recent annual summit of the Army Aviation Association of America:
Army weighs new aviation force structure for 101st, Europe
NASHVILLE, TN -- The Army is weighing the possibility of boosting CH-47 Chinook force structure to support the requirements of the 101st Airborne Division.
DAMO-AV: FY-18 budget boost pushed modernization 'to the left'
NASHVILLE, TN -- The Defense Department's funding boost in fiscal year 2018 has provided "tremendous help" to Army aviation, enabling the service to accelerate its modernization plans, according to an official.