Tuesday, April 23, 2024
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
This Tuesday INSIDER Daily Digest has news on Air Force Global Strike Command's use of artificial intelligence, the Pentagon's use of cyber incident reporting data, a prototype integrated air and missile defense architecture and more.
Virtualitics' artificial intelligence platform for predictive maintenance uses a multitude of variables to best estimate when parts should be replaced before they ultimately fail or break:
AI to support Air Force Global Strike Command with predictive maintenance
Air Force Global Strike Command is working with artificial intelligence business Virtualitics to develop a "center of excellence" for predictive maintenance aimed at increasing mission readiness for bombers and missile weapon systems, the company announced Tuesday.
Our colleagues at Inside Cybersecurity have the latest on how the Pentagon collects and uses cyber incident reporting data:
GAO report finds inconsistent implementation of DOD incident reporting requirements
A new report from the Government Accountability Office finds significant deficiencies in how the Pentagon collects and uses cyber incident reporting data from the defense industrial base required under Defense Department policy.
Document: GAO report on DOD cybersecurity
During the Army's Project Convergence 22 last month, the four services exercised a prototype integrated air and missile defense architecture that uses the Joint Track Management Capability (JTMC) Bridge to link the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps across a vast geographic area:
DOD demonstrates capability for Guam defense: expanded fire-control-quality data sharing
The U.S military has demonstrated a new capability crucial to plans to defend Guam beginning in 2024 against advanced Chinese air and missile threats, linking radar on Navy destroyers for the first time with Army and Marine Corps ground sensors as well as Air Force fighter aircraft.
The Government Accountability Office looked into the availability of military aircraft:
GAO: Aircraft mission-capable goals 'generally not met' over past decade
A Government Accountability Office assessment has found only four of 49 selected military aircraft programs met their mission-capable goals in a majority of years from fiscal year 2011 through 2021.
Document: GAO report on aircraft sustainment
The Army's top civilian says the service is trying to get its arms around huge amounts of data:
Wormuth: Army needs to figure out how to harness all its data
Army leaders are continuing to grapple with managing the huge amount of data being collected and exchanged by its growing network of sensors and communications capabilities, according to service Secretary Christine Wormuth.
Congressional budget wonks have given the cost of the Navy's shipbuilding plan the once-over:
CBO: Latest shipbuilding plan will require significantly higher budgets than Navy estimates
The Navy's long-range shipbuilding plan will require higher annual shipbuilding budgets than the service estimates and multiple programs in the pipeline will be billions over projected costs, according to the Congressional Budget Office's annual analysis of the shipbuilding plan.
Document: CBO's analysis of the Navy's FY-23 shipbuilding plan