Friday, April 19, 2024
Friday, April 19, 2024
This Tuesday INSIDER Daily Digest has news from this week's Association of the United States Army annual conference plus delays to a hypersonic missile flight test and more.
The Army's top civilian spoke at this week's annual AUSA conference:
Wormuth: Extended CR would delay some modernization priorities
Army Secretary Christine Wormuth said Monday that a long-term continuing resolution could push back the development and procurement schedules of some of the service's modernization programs.
A big hypersonic flight test has been pushed back to the first quarter of 2023:
Pentagon delays major hypersonic flight test; assessing root cause of June failure
The Pentagon has delayed a high-stakes flight test of a long-range hypersonic weapon that was originally to be executed no later than last month, a change of plans that eats away at the timetable of a project with little schedule margin in the U.S. military's effort to field its first conventional hypersonic strike weapon by next September.
The Air Force KC-46 refueling tanker has suffered another delay to its Remote Vision System:
Air Force admits another RVS 2.0 delay
A fix for the KC-46A's long-troubled Remote Vision System has been delayed 19 months to October 2025 due to subcontractor negotiations and additional time needed to achieve airworthiness certification, according to a statement from the Air Force's acquisition office.
The Senate Armed Services Committee wants the Defense Department inspector general to audit the Pentagon "to determine the extent to which the Department of Defense (DOD) developed guidance, conducted training, and oversaw the implementation of the DOD Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) Program":
Watchdog to audit DOD's use of 'controlled unclassified' markings to restrict information
The Pentagon inspector general's office intends to begin an audit this month looking into the Defense Department's use of "controlled unclassified information" as a justification for restricting information, like what was seen when an annual weapons testing performance report was submitted to Congress earlier this year.
Document: DOD IG memo on CUI audit
In recent letters to the Defense Department and National Defense Industrial Association, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) questions the reasons for providing inflation relief to military contractors:
Warren questions DOD, industry associations over inflation relief proposals
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) is questioning the Defense Department's push to provide inflation relief to defense contractors, sending a new letter to Pentagon acquisition chief Bill LaPlante voicing concern that DOD may be preparing to dish out "corporate welfare" without sufficient data to justify the cost.
Document: Warren letters to DOD, industry associations over inflation relief proposals