The INSIDER daily digest -- Oct. 11, 2019

This Friday INSIDER Daily Digest has news on national security space roadmaps as well as the Ground-based Midcourse Defense system and more.

Michael Schlacter, the Space Development Agency's integration lead, spoke this week at an AFCEA luncheon:

SDA creating inventory of national security space roadmaps to inform next-generation architecture

The Space Development Agency is creating an inventory of the "battle plans" of various space agencies within the Defense Department that will help inform its plans to develop a next-generation space architecture.

The Missile Defense Agency recently published a solicitation that aims to shape a follow-on contract -- or contracts -- to the current Ground-based Midcourse Defense development sustainment contract that Boeing has overseen since 2011 and which MDA last year extended through 2023 in a deal potentially worth nearly $11 billion:

MDA exploring whether to break up future GMD support contract into multiple deals

The Missile Defense Agency is looking into the early 2020s and thinking about how best to structure future contracts to manage the Ground-based Midcourse Defense system, contemplating whether to bundle end-to-end development and sustainment of the interceptor fleet into a single deal or break it up into a package of smaller competitive contracts.

Air Force Brig. Gen. Douglas Schiess, commander of the 45th Space Wing, said this week during a Mitchell Institute event the service is working to transition its "range of the future" concept into an architecture:

Air Force taking steps toward 'range of the future'

The Air Force is making progress on an incremental plan to upgrade its space launch ranges with new infrastructure, safety mechanisms and updated procedures by the mid-2020s.

The Defense Department is putting together a "control system tested product list" to better address cybersecurity risks posed by industrial control systems used by DOD:

Pentagon compiling 'control system tested product list' to address cyber risks

The Pentagon is developing a list of tested and approved control system products, as defense officials are increasingly concerned a cyberattack on unsecure critical infrastructure could disrupt military operations.

In case you missed it, we posted a deep dive this week into the implications for the Defense Department of House lawmakers' impeachment inquiry:

White House vow to block impeachment inquiry could pull DOD deeper into controversy

The Defense Department says it remains ready to work with Congress on questions about previously stalled U.S. military aid to Ukraine, but the White House's assertion that the impeachment inquiry into President Trump is illegitimate could leave DOD unable to respond to a subpoena it received from three House committees.