Friday, April 19, 2024
Friday, April 19, 2024
This Tuesday INSIDER Daily Digest has news on Marine Corps training, the Pentagon's latest Global Posture Review and more.
The Marine Corps is updating the way it trains its troops:
Marine Corps to employ LVC training by 2024
Live, virtual and constructive training will be the "underpinning" of the Marine Corps' future training environment, according to a service official.
Senior Pentagon officials discussed the Defense Department's recently completed Global Posture Review:
DOD completes Global Posture Review intended to push resources to Indo-Pacific
Details and outcomes from the Defense Department's recently completed Global Posture Review are classified, but a senior defense official says the review, which has the support of President Biden, will ultimately give DOD the "framework" necessary to increase U.S. military presence in the Indo-Pacific region to counter China.
The Army's Rapid Capabilities and Critical Technologies Office and the Navy's Strategic Systems Program Office are jointly developing an intermediate-range hypersonic glide vehicle that will be integrated on a new, two-stage booster:
DOD sets plan to upgrade long-range hypersonic strike fleet every two years
The Defense Department is laying plans to upgrade its future fleet of long-range hypersonic glide vehicles as frequently as every two years, creating windows for new technology insertion as experimental capabilities prove ready for production in a bid to catch up -- and overtake – China's current dominance of the near-space domain.
An Air Force base will be the first military installation to get a 5G network:
Hill AFB to mark first successful 5G network deployment with ceremony next week
Officials at Hill Air Force Base, UT, are poised to mark the first successful 5G network deployment at a service installation with a ribbon-cutting ceremony next week, a key milestone in the first phase of mid-band dynamic spectrum sharing work at the site.
Service officials are looking to modernize Letterkenny Army Depot:
Army depot looks at Futures Command efforts to guide its own modernization
CHAMBERSBURG, PA -- The Army's 35 priority acquisition programs grab most of the attention about what the service's chief of staff calls a once-in-four-decades modernization push.