The INSIDER daily digest -- Nov. 5, 2018

This Monday INSIDER Daily Digest has news on the Army's secret plans for a new hypersonic strike weapon, Air Force cyber developments, the Pentagon's cloud strategy and more.

Last month, the Army presented secret plans for a new deep-strike weapon to a select industry audience:

Army to re-purpose Navy booster and build road-mobile, deep-strike hypersonic weapon

The Army is launching a Long-Range Hypersonic Weapon program to develop a capability to punch through contested, anti-access environments -- a big-ticket acquisition project that will re-purpose a Navy hypersonic booster being developed by Lockheed Martin for use on a road-mobile system, giving ground forces a conventionally armed strategic system for the opening salvos of a major fight.

Brig. Gen. Timothy Lunderman, the Air National Guard assistant to the Air Forces Cyber commander, recently spoke at Fifth Domain's CyberCon:

Air Forces Cyber official sees challenges in sustaining new cyber operators

Six months after the Air Force's cyber mission forces declared full operational capability, one official said the service faces significant challenges as it looks to institutionalize and sustain its cyber operators.

DOD Chief Information Officer Dana Deasy recently sent a memo to department leaders on the Pentagon's cloud strategy:

Pentagon cloud strategy points to 'multi-vendor' future, with centralized oversight

The Defense Department will pursue a computing environment featuring different types of clouds and multiple vendors, but the chief information officer's role as a central governing authority will be key to reaching an "optimized" environment, according to an overview of the Pentagon's cloud strategy.

Document: DOD memo on Pentagon cloud strategy

Check out our deep dive into the implications of a potential Democratic takeover of the House or Representatives on the Navy's shipbuilding plans:

Democratic House could create new obstacles to building larger Navy

A potential party flip in the House following this week's midterm elections could put the Navy's already uphill battle for a 355-ship fleet on a more difficult track.

The Pentagon's industrial policy chief spoke recently at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington:

Pentagon moving on defense industrial base policy changes

The Pentagon in the coming year will be able to implement about one-third of the 300 classified policy recommendations in its recent report on the defense industrial base, according to Deputy Assistant Defense Secretary for Manufacturing and Industrial Base Policy Eric Chewning, who helped manage the study.

Document: Defense industrial base report