Friday, April 19, 2024
Friday, April 19, 2024
Today's INSIDER Daily Digest includes the latest on an Army audit, an update on the Pentagon's vision for hypersonics and one expert's view of what to expect from divided government.
In a letter sent in September, an Army official warned that its independent auditor was “unable to obtain sufficient, appropriate audit evidence to provide a basis for an audit opinion on the financial statements and related notes”:
Army notifies Congress of 'disclaimer of opinion' on financial audit
The Army's independent auditor, KPMG, has notified the Pentagon's inspector general it intends to issue this year a disclaimer of opinion on the service's fiscal year 2018 general fund and working capital fund financial statements, a service official told Congress earlier this year.
Pentagon official Mike Griffin today appeared at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and discussed hypersonics:
Griffin: DOD contemplating low-cost hypersonic weapon for new cost-imposing strategy
Pentagon policy makers are envisioning a potential future in which the U.S. military possesses stockpiles of relatively low-cost, hypersonic boost-glide weapons that can be used to hold high-priority adversary targets at risk, giving Washington a new cost-imposing tool in the great power competition against Russia and China.
Arnold Punaro, who spent decades as a staff member on Capitol Hill, has a new report on what divided government might mean for national security:
Punaro: Divided government 'is the norm in recent history, not the exception'
Divided government has been commonplace in recent decades and has not prevented signed defense bills and significant legislative accomplishments, Arnold Punaro argues in a new paper.
Inside the Air Force interviewed multiple experts about the way adding air-to-air missiles to MQ-9 Reapers could significantly change the battlespace:
Air-to-air missiles can expand MQ-9's role in high-end conflicts, experts say
Arming MQ-9 Reapers with air-to-air missiles can prepare the remotely piloted aircraft for a future filled with enemy unmanned systems and for new roles in contested airspace, defense experts tell Inside Defense.