Saturday, April 20, 2024
Saturday, April 20, 2024
A new NATO study, DOD's latest FIAR report and a whole bunch of Air Force news highlight this Friday INSIDER Daily Digest.
A new report released by NATO identifies worldwide trends that hold implications for the alliance out to 2035 and beyond:
NATO unveils strategic outlook to guide future force development
NATO has released an unclassified analysis of future trends expected to lay the groundwork for changes in the alliance's capability targets.
Document: NATO report on strategic foresight analysis
DOD has issued the last Financial Improvement and Audit Readiness report solely focused on "audit readiness":
Pentagon embarking on $2 trillion audit
The Defense Department continues to move from "audit readiness" toward a full audit in fiscal year 2018, according to a recent report to Congress.
Document: DOD's November 2017 FIAR plan status report
Coverage of the FY-18 defense authorization conference report from an Air Force perspective:
Congress: High-altitude ISR platforms to stay until USAF finds cheaper, better alternatives
Congress is backtracking on earlier language that would have blocked the Air Force from retiring Lockheed Martin's U-2 Dragon Lady and Northrop Grumman's RQ-4 Global Hawk before 2024.
Congress tells Air Force not to replicate EC-X strategy for other programs
Lawmakers scolded the Air Force but pared back restrictions on the service's program to move EC-130H Compass Call equipment to a new aircraft in the final version of the fiscal year 2018 defense policy bill, which the House and Senate passed this week.
Congress wants Pentagon mobility requirements review in 2018
Lawmakers want the Pentagon to complete a mobility requirements and capability study by 2018 -- about a year before it had planned to begin its own review.
Congress directs creation of Functional Capability Board for space
As part of its slate of space acquisition and management reform initiatives, Congress is calling on the Defense Department to establish a Functional Capability Board for space that would "improve the advocacy for joint space requirements."
More news from this week's Inside the Air Force:
PAR program assessing options as Congress sets new guidelines
The program executive officer for the Presidential Aircraft Recapitalization program confirmed to Inside the Air Force this week his team is identifying ways to cut down on the fleet's certification process and is considering other options for saving time and money.
Air Force to hold B-52 engine industry day, appears to favor replacement
The Air Force will hold an industry day next month to discuss its acquisition strategy to replace the B-52's TF33 engine with a commercial variant -- appearing to rule out the option of an engine upgrade.
Air Force creating government, industry cyber resiliency forum
The Air Force plans to establish a government and industry forum to inform the service's efforts to improve the cyber resiliency of its current and future systems.