The INSIDER daily digest -- Nov. 21, 2023

This Tuesday INSIDER Daily Digest has news on a recent Defense Science Board study, the Pentagon's new information operations strategy and more.

The Defense Science Board Task Force on Secure Electronic Processing has provided its findings to Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Heidi Shyu, who commissioned the project a year ago:

DSB Secure Electronic Processing Task Force completes work, withholds findings from public

A Pentagon advisory board commissioned to assess secure electronic processing has completed its work but is not disclosing recommendations on how to address the U.S. military's conundrum of relying on microprocessors produced by a global supply chain that allows adversaries to corrupt technologies, launch malicious code and steal weapon system blueprints.

A new Pentagon information operations strategy "informs and guides the investments that the department should make to improve its abilities to influence our rivals and adversaries’ decisions and behaviors, while protecting DOD personnel and institutions against foreign malign influence":

DOD releases information ops strategy to 'guide investments'

The Defense Department has released the 2023 Strategy for Operations in the Information Environment, which aims to strengthen national security and counter U.S. adversaries through building integrated deterrence and directing future investments.

Document: DOD's 2023 information ops strategy

The Army's Lower Tier Air and Missile Defense Sensor (LTAMDS) took part in a recent live-fire event:

LTAMDS 'nominal' in first live-fire test; surrogate cruise missile intercepted

The Army's Lower Tier Air and Missile Defense Sensor (LTAMDS) -- in a seminal event for the service's decade-long effort to field a next-generation, 360-degree radar -- detected a cruise missile target and guided a Patriot interceptor to destroy the threat during a live-fire test at White Sands Missile Range, NM.

Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Allvin gave remarks at his welcome ceremony at Joint Base Andrews, MD last week:

Allvin says 'adjustments' and 'variations in execution' are necessary

The Air Force needs to make some "adjustments" and "variations in [its] execution" to adapt to the current strategic environment and defend the U.S. from aggressors, according to the service's newly appointed chief of staff.

The White House's new National Spectrum Strategy isn't going over well with some congressional lawmakers:

Lawmakers split over DOD spectrum sharing in new White House strategy

Lawmakers disagree over the White House's new National Spectrum Strategy announced Monday, with parties divided over the possibility of spectrum sharing between the Defense Department and the private sector.