Wednesday, April 24, 2024
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
This Wednesday INSIDER Daily Digest has news on the Pentagon's latest annual report on China's military and more.
The Defense Department has released its annual report on Chinese military and security developments:
China looking to increase nukes and network all military capabilities by 2030
The Pentagon believes China is planning to significantly increase its stockpile of nuclear weapons by the end of the decade, and is also aiming to integrate all its military capabilities under a broadly configured network by 2027, according to an annual report on Chinese military strength.
Document: DOD's 2021 report on China
Analysts and Navy officials are looking at the next steps the service is taking with regard to unmanned systems:
CSIS: Navy slow to fund unmanned systems, despite heavy discussion
While unmanned systems receive a lot of attention in discussions about the Navy's future, a think-tank report explains how the service is slow to fund and field these unmanned systems.
Small: Navy needs to better quantify the value of unmanned systems
The Navy needs to determine how to quantify the value of unmanned systems to give new systems the same value as legacy systems, according to a service official.
Google Workspace is now available for a few thousand Air Force Research Laboratory scientists and engineers to broaden channels of communication with academic, industrial, small business and other collaborators outside of government:
AFRL, Google Cloud announce effort to streamline research communication, speed tech delivery
The Air Force Research Laboratory and Google Cloud today unveiled a joint effort to streamline communications and data sharing with external research partners, a move that one scientist and researcher says will speed the pace of discoveries and aid the delivery of new technologies to the service.
Republican lawmakers want Democrats to speed up consideration of this year's defense policy bill:
GOP senators blast Democrats for delayed defense authorization bill
Several Republican senators led by Jim Inhofe (R-OK) today criticized Senate Democrats for prioritizing work on nominations and new spending packages above the annual defense authorization bill.
Florida-based Global Ordnance believes the newest version of Yugoimport's NORA, with an autoloader and a 52-caliber barrel that fires standard American 155 mm rounds, could quickly fill a capability gap in the U.S. Army:
Global Ordnance offers Serbian howitzer for urgent need in Europe
The U.S. Army would not have been a likely candidate to use the original version of the NORA truck-mounted howitzer. It was developed for the Yugoslav army at the tail end of the Cold War and fired Soviet munitions.
Some missile defense news:
MDA begins breakup of Boeing's hold on future GMD development, sustainment work
The Missile Defense Agency has formally launched a contest to scale back Boeing's decade-long grip on the entire development and sustainment prime contract for the Ground-based Midcourse Defense system, publishing a request for proposals for the first of two planned full-and-open competitions for future GMD work that will be in addition to a guaranteed, but smaller, continued role for Boeing.
A new Air Force memo outlines several studies and reviews meant to help the Air Force and Space Force make "timely, data-driven decisions":
New Air Force memo directs near-term reviews of cyber posture, NDS alignment
Top Air Force and Space Force leadership this week issued a memo outlining near-term organizational shifts and directing a slate of management initiatives, including a review of the department's cybersecurity and defense posture, its process for transitioning technology and an assessment of how well current resources align with the National Defense Strategy.
Document: Air Force memo on near-term reorganization
Mike Nichols, chief of the Space Force's Commercial Satellite Communications Office, briefed the office's procurement outlook during an Oct. 29 Defense Information Systems Agency forecast to industry:
Space Force COMSATCOM office eyes $2.8B in new procurement deals over next two years
The Space Force's Commercial Satellite Communications Office last week briefed industry on its procurement outlook for 2022 and 2023, which includes $2.8 billion in contracts across a slew of new projects, the largest of which is for proliferated low Earth orbit satellite communications services, valued at up to $875 million.
Document: DISA 'forecast to industry' briefing slides