The INSIDER daily digest -- Oct. 18, 2022

This Tuesday INSIDER Daily Digest has news on C-130J funding, the Army's Integrated Air and Missile Defense Battle Command System and more.

The Air Force will need more C-130J program funding:

Air Force revises C-130J DMS estimate, says more funds are needed

An additional $63 million is required to address diminishing manufacturing sources for the C-130J Super Hercules ahead of further orders for the aircraft, a spokesman for the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center told Inside Defense.

The Army's Integrated Air and Missile Defense Battle Command System is drawing foreign allied interest:

Key allies eyeing IBCS; UK, Japan, Australia interested in new Army missile defense system

U.S. allies in Europe, Asia and the Pacific are eyeing the Army's Integrated Air and Missile Defense program -- specifically the IAMD Battle Command System (IBCS) -- with nations, including the United Kingdom, Japan and Australia, in discussion with the prime contractor and the U.S. government exploring potential foreign sales.

The upcoming congressional elections could have an impact on several Biden administration defense nominees:

Reed says DOD picks could further stall if Dems lose Senate

Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Jack Reed (D-RI) said the confirmations of more than a dozen Defense Department nominees could remain stalled if Democrats lose their Senate majority next month as the party's focus would be to move as many federal judges as possible before yielding control to the GOP.

The Defense Science Board has released the executive summary of a classified task force report on homeland air defense:

DSB: Strategic Aerospace Guard Environment needed to defend U.S. airspace

An influential Pentagon advisory panel has assessed it "is essential and feasible to quickly and affordably" field new domestic air defense capabilities to protect critical homeland targets -- both civilian and military -- against advanced Russian and Chinese threats.

Document: DSB executive summary of homeland air defense report

Delivery of the Navy's latest Expeditionary Sea Base vessel has been pushed back to January:

Delivery of sixth ESB vessel delayed until January

As the Navy's public and private shipyards continue to face workforce shortages, delivery of the newest Expeditionary Sea Base vessel has been delayed to January.

Our colleagues at Inside Cybersecurity have the latest on industry efforts to persuade lawmakers to reconcile different Software Bill of Materials proposals:

Software group calls for coherence on SBOM as lawmakers offer proposals for different agencies

BSA-The Software Alliance wants the House and Senate to sort out diverging proposals on Software Bill of Materials contained each in chamber's version of this year's annual defense policy bill, and calls for an approach that goes across government rather than focusing just on the Homeland Security or Defense departments.