Wednesday, April 24, 2024
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
This Monday INSIDER Daily Digest has news on future hybrid electric military vehicles, Guam missile defense, Army ammunition procurement and more.
Inside Defense spoke to executives from several military ground vehicle companies during last week's big AUSA conference:
At AUSA, the future is (hybrid) electric
Major ground vehicle companies including General Dynamics Land Systems, BAE Systems, Oshkosh Defense and GM Defense are investing millions into rapidly maturing hybrid and electric technologies at a time when the Army has begun to take climate change seriously, evidenced in recent months by the release of its Climate Strategy and Climate Strategy Implementation Plan.
(View our full coverage of the AUSA Annual Meeting 2022.)
The Missile Defense Agency has selected the Army's A4 Sentinel radar and the Homeland Defense Radar-Guam as the two sensors that will combine efforts -- linked by a new capability that bridges separate Army and Navy command and control systems -- to monitor skies around Guam:
Guam radar blueprint calls for 10 sensors by 2027; initial capability on island by 2024
The Pentagon has locked in a sensor architecture for the U.S. military's new counterair and missile defense system slated for Guam that will be composed of a newly minted Army radar and a land-based Navy variant of technology derived from a towering Space Force array that is due to become operational soon.
A recent Government Accountability Office report recommends the Army "revise its governing documents" on ammunition procurement and production:
Army agrees to revise governing documents for ammunition procurement and production
The Army has agreed to revise its governing documents that concern the procurement and production of ammunition, following an audit by the Government Accountability Office that found the guidance was out of date by 18 years.
Document: GAO report on Army ammo procurement, production practices
Redesigning the battery on the Navy's Extra Large Unmanned Undersea Vehicle is what led to program delays:
Boeing says XLUUV delays primarily caused by battery redesign
Delays in the Navy's large robotic submarine program were caused by a new battery design and supply chain issues due to the global pandemic.
A need to upscale employees within the Defense Information Systems Agency's Hosting and Compute Center was identified months ago:
DISA fleshes out plans for 'technician of the future' workforce training effort
The Defense Information Systems Agency is working to roll out a series of pilot programs and bring on a chief learning officer as officials aim to bolster their workforce's skill set through a soon-to-be widely deployed "technician of the future" training initiative.