Tuesday, April 23, 2024
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
This Friday INSIDER Daily Digest has news on the Missile Defense Agency's terminated Redesigned Kill Vehicle and more.
We start off with missile defense news, specifically the terminated Redesigned Kill Vehicle program:
House investigating RKV termination, challenging Griffin's 'convenience' call
House lawmakers are launching an investigation into the August decision to terminate the Redesigned Kill Vehicle, directing the Defense Department to provide key documents associated with the ballistic missile defense warhead project as well as outline options for clawing back from contractors some of the $1.2 billion invested in it between 2015 and 2019.
. . . as well as the RKV's potential replacement, the Next Generation Interceptor:
GMD modernization fuels FY-21 budget deliberations over new interceptor design
The plan for a technologically ambitious Next Generation Interceptor -- a potential decade-long project to develop a new long-range, guided missile to protect the nation against anticipated North Korean and Iranian ballistic missile threats beginning in 2030 -- is fueling a debate about the shape of the program late in the fiscal year 2021 budget endgame.
The Defense Innovation Board met this week and made a number of recommendations:
Defense Innovation Board recommends five 'principles' for Pentagon's use of AI
The Defense Innovation Board is recommending the Pentagon commit to developing and using artificial intelligence systems in a responsible, equitable, traceable, reliable and governable manner.
Document: Defense Innovation Board's 'AI principles'
A Government Accountability Office report on the Air Force's space command-and-control architecture is out:
Air Force to submit Space C2 acquisition strategy in November
The Air Force plans to submit a formal acquisition strategy for its latest effort to modernize space command-and-control architecture and is working to mitigate early technical and program management concerns, according to a new Government Accountability Office report.
Document: GAO report on DOD's space C2 program
The Mk21A reentry vehicle program is moving toward a system requirements review during the second quarter of fiscal year 2020:
Mk21A reentry vehicle program moving toward system requirements review
The program to develop a reentry vehicle that can deliver the future W87-1 warhead from the Ground Based Strategic Deterrent -- the Air Force's next intercontinental ballistic missile system -- is expected to reach a key early milestone in the beginning of the next calendar year.