This Monday INSIDER Daily Digest has news on a nascent Army All-Domain Sensing Cross-Functional Team, the Missile Defense System's overall cost and more.
Army Futures Command recently stood up its newest All-Domain Sensing Cross-Functional Team, which officially began its mission Oct. 16 and will work in tandem with partners in the Defense Department to streamline technology development, capabilities and processes:
Harnessing the senses: Army Futures Command's newest CFT hopes to standardize sensor technology for the future force
The Army, along with the joint services, has been investing in and developing effective sensors -- perhaps without taking full advantage of them, a senior official said Oct. 31.
The Missile Defense Agency, in a Selected Acquisition Report to Congress made public last month, detailed changes to near-term procurement plans:
MDA pegs cost of Missile Defense System at $246B, prioritizes SM-3 Bk IIA over IB
The Defense Department last year traded away 153 Standard Missile-3 Block IB interceptors as part of a decision to terminate production of the guided missile interceptors in exchange for buying a dozen Standard Missile-3 Block IIA variants, according to a report to Congress.
Document: DOD modernized SAR on the MDS program
The latest CMMC news from our colleagues at Inside Cybersecurity:
Procurement group urges Pentagon to clarify how contracting officers will set CMMC maturity level requirements
The Coalition for Government Procurement is asking the Defense Department to provide guidance on when requirements under the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program will go into effect for specific contracts, in response to a proposed rule to make changes to the Pentagon's acquisition regulations.
Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Allvin says the service is being hurt by continuing resolutions:
Allvin: Yearly CRs contribute to a 'death by 1,000 cuts' to Air Force programs
Year after year, long-term continuing resolutions have strangled the defense budgetary process, which Air Force officials say is exhausting time that could have been spent on advancing capabilities and blurring the service's vision about what it might need to maintain superiority over the nation's adversaries.
GA-ASI and BAE are teaming up to bring some new EW capabilities to the Air Force’s CCA program:
General Atomics, BAE collaborate on electronic warfare capabilities for CCAs
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems and BAE Systems are working together to build autonomous electronic warfare functions for Collaborative Combat Aircraft, GA-ASI announced.