Friday, April 19, 2024
Friday, April 19, 2024
This Monday INSIDER Daily Digest features news on CFIUS, the military's hypersonic boost-glide vehicle program and more.
Eric Chewning, deputy assistant secretary of defense for industrial policy, spoke at an Atlantic Council event this morning:
Chewning: Government is taking into account BAE's concerns over CFIUS policy
A top Pentagon official said an interim Treasury Department rule that has concerned some organizations, including BAE Systems, will go through a regulation-writing process over the next year.
Earlier this month, the Navy's Strategic Systems Programs (SSP) office announced plans to negotiate a sole-source contract with Lockheed Martin for a planned five-year program to support the Navy's Intermediate Range Conventional Prompt Strike flight test demonstrations:
Navy turns to Lockheed Martin for hypersonic flight test support through 2023
The Navy is turning to its trusted supplier for submarine-launched intercontinental ballistic missiles -- Lockheed Martin's Sunnyvale, CA, business unit -- to design, develop, build and integrate large rocket motors and missile bodies to support test flights of the service's hypersonic boost-glide vehicle program.
In case you missed them, here are the stories that ran right before the Thanksgiving break:
Navy plans to develop, acquire NGJ-LB using rapid acquisition authorities
The Navy plans to use rapid prototyping and fielding acquisition authorities to develop and deliver a Next Generation Jammer-Low Band system, setting a 2024 target for the first operational pod on an EA-18G Growler -- a goal that requires setting a program baseline in July.
Air Force seeks airborne, autonomous MDC2 data-processing technology
A recent Air Force notice requests airborne systems that autonomously process command-and-control data, a new example of the service's nascent search for material solutions that enable fast, complementary air, space and cyber combat planning.
F-22 program develops recovery plan, gets funding boost to support 80 percent readiness target
The F-22 program office has developed a "recovery plan" to meet Defense Secretary Jim Mattis' mandate that the fifth-generation fighter achieve an 80 percent mission-capable rate by the end of fiscal year 2019.
Marine Corps begins research for Utility Task Vehicle replacement
The Marine Corps has started research on an Ultra-Light Tactical Vehicle for a possible fiscal year 2022 full-rate production decision.
Army to field new Stryker APS in FY-21
The Army is testing two non-developmental active protection systems on the Stryker vehicle and expects to begin fielding one of them in the third quarter of fiscal year 2021, according to a report sent last month to the congressional defense committees.