Saturday, April 20, 2024
Saturday, April 20, 2024
This Monday INSIDER Daily Digest has news on the Navy's Light Amphibious Warship program, the Army's proposed wheeled 155 mm howitzer effort and more.
The Navy late last week issued a request for information for the Light Amphibious Warship program:
Navy solicits Light Amphibious Warship preliminary designs
The Navy has taken the next step to procuring a Light Amphibious Warship, releasing a request for information last week for a "preliminary/contract" design for the new class of ship.
The Army plans to hold a shoot-off evaluation of competing wheeled 155 mm howitzer designs at Yuma Proving Ground, AZ, in early 2021:
Army contest for wheeled 155 mm howitzer draws at least two competitors for Yuma shoot-off
The Army's new contest to find a wheeled 155 mm howitzer will have at least two candidates, with BAE Systems today announcing it is offering the Archer, in service with the Swedish army, and AM General offering its Brutus, a M777 cannon mounted on a Family of Medium Tactical Vehicles truck.
The "Defense Industrial Base Vulnerability Disclosure Program" pilot is a joint effort between the Defense Department's Cyber Crime Center (DC3) and the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency:
New DOD pilot program to turn white hat hackers loose on defense contractor networks
The Pentagon will start a pilot program early next year allowing cybersecurity researchers to probe the networks of defense contractors for vulnerabilities before they can be exploited by hackers.
Lt. Gen. B. Chance Saltzman, the Space Force's deputy chief of space operations, spoke at a Mitchell Institute event late last week:
CR likely to slow Space Force hiring, field command establishment
The Space Force's chief operating officer said Friday he expects the restrictions imposed by Congress' continuing resolution to slow the standup of new field commands and impede the growth of the service's civilian workforce.
The Air Force has now finished Small Diameter Bpmb II negotiations with Raytheon, adding $239 million to a $33 million undefinitized contract agreement for Lot 6 purchases, according to a Pentagon contract announcement last week:
Air Force, Raytheon finalize $272 million contract for SDB II production
The Air Force and Raytheon have finalized a $272 million deal for the sixth production lot of the Small Diameter Bomb II -- a precision-guided weapon designed to strike moving targets in all weather conditions.
Lockheed Martin plans to respond to a Missile Defense Agency broad area announcement seeking help defining a "Sea-Based Terminal Future Interceptor" as part of a second layer of a counter-hypersonic capability:
Lockheed drafting proposal for sea-based PAC-3 to counter hypersonic threats
Lockheed Martin is drafting plans for a sea-based variant of its most advanced Patriot interceptor -- the Missile Segment Enhanced -- in response to the Missile Defense Agency's request for ideas on ways to defeat a hypersonic weapon during the terminal phase.