Tuesday, April 16, 2024
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
Army network and modernization issues, Air Force bomb development and more highlight this Wednesday INSIDER Daily Digest.
The Army's top civilian and uniformed leaders spoke to reporters this morning in Washington:
Milley and McCarthy describe multifaceted process to improve Army network
The Army is working to address an "architecture challenge" with respect to its network, but senior leaders emphasized that changes will not happen overnight.
Army modernization news:
New memo details efforts to 'fundamentally alter' Army modernization
The Army's top civilian official has clarified his instructions to a senior service leader charged with designing a new organization to oversee modernization.
Document: Army modernization task force memo
Air Force news:
SDB II developmental test stretches into 2018 as Raytheon resolves issues
The Air Force and Raytheon are working out issues discovered during developmental testing for Raytheon's Small Diameter Bomb II and expect that phase will last into next year, a service spokeswoman said earlier this month.
Air Force completes initial B61-12 qualification testing
The Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center announced Tuesday it has finished initial qualification testing on the upgraded B61-12 nuclear weapon.
As 'agile' development takes hold, Air Force recognizes need to communicate and normalize
The Air Force is taking steps to ensure programs can learn from each other as dozens of "agile" pathfinder initiatives move forward and become more common.
Keep an eye out next summer for a commercial cloud computing contract award:
Executive steering group plans new cloud award for next summer
A high-level Pentagon group charged with accelerating the military's adoption of commercial cloud computing may pursue revisions to policies and regulations as it plans a new contract award for next summer.
Document: DOD cloud RFI
The Government Accountability Office's latest bid protest report is out:
Number of GAO bid protests declines in fiscal year 2017
The number of bid protests filed with the Government Accountability Office in fiscal year 2017 reached 2,596, down about 7 percent from the prior year, according to an annual report submitted to Congress this week.
Document: GAO's bid protest annual report to Congress for FY-17
News from this week's issue of Inside the Army:
Nakasone touts 'super-empowered individuals' at ARCYBER
A trio of factors -- people, technology and partnerships -- will determine the course of future cyber conflicts, according to the head of Army Cyber Command.
PEO C3T eyes upgrades to SINCGARS waveform
As the Army prepares for a potential near-peer adversary, the service is seeking industry input on ways to harden its communications and network infrastructure against advanced threats.