Monday, May 13, 2024
Monday, May 13, 2024
This Thursday INSIDER Daily Digest looks at how one contractor is using COVID-19 testing to improve workforce attendance, a possible new missile defense plan, the Air Force tanker program and the Pentagon’s 5G effort.
Huntington Ingalls Industries at one point this year saw workforce attendance dip as low as 50%, but is now seeing sustainable levels:
Huntington Ingalls says it’s using testing to bolster attendance levels
Huntington Ingalls Industries executives said today the company has established new protocols, including testing, that are allowing it to better predict and manage its workforce.
The Defense Department is turning to contractors for new missile defense ideas:
Pentagon seeks industry ideas to rethink $202 billion missile defense architecture
The Defense Department is asking for help rethinking how to protect the United States from long-range missiles, particularly how to redesign the $202 billion system of sensors, command and control networks and interceptors optimized for ballistic missile threats to also account for cruise missile and maneuvering hypersonic weapons.
As the Air Force begins to integrate the Boeing-built KC-46 into its mobility fleet, the service is conducting research for a next-generation tanker, known as the KC-Z:
AFRL studying future tanker technology as AMC crafts formal requirements
As Air Mobility Command considers what a future aerial refueling architecture might look like and develops requirements for those systems, the Air Force Research Laboratory’s aerospace systems directorate is working ahead -- studying the concepts and technologies the command is likely to pursue.
And the Pentagon’s 5G director said DOD will soon announce a final set of companies receiving contract awards as part of the first tranche for fifth-generation wireless experiments:
Pentagon 5G experimentation director plans next round of awards, solicitations
The Pentagon is planning a second round of contracts for fifth-generation wireless experiments early next year, as well as two new broad area announcements related to the military’s telecommunications research, according to the head of the Defense Department’s 5G development program.