Tuesday, April 23, 2024
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
This Wednesday INSIDER Daily Digest has news on U.S. Transportation Command, the Army's Future Armed Reconnaissance Aircraft, Air Force launch mission support contracts and more.
The head of U.S. Transportation Command spoke with reporters at a Defense Writers Group breakfast this morning:
TRANSCOM crafting follow-on capability study with a broader scope
U.S. Transportation Command has begun work on a follow-up to last year's mobility capability requirements study that will have a broader scope than the 2019 analysis and will consider what forces are needed to support the National Defense Strategy.
Bell is one of five vendors to unveil prototypes for the Future Armed Reconnaissance Aircraft, the others being AVX Aircraft-L3 Technologies, Boeing, Karem Aircraft and Sikorsky:
Bell unveils FARA prototype
Bell unveiled its proposal for the Future Armed Reconnaissance Aircraft, the 360 Invictus, yesterday at its headquarters in Arlington, VA.
United Launch Alliance this week won a pair of launch mission support contracts:
Air Force awards launch support contracts, ends ELC arrangement
The Air Force this week awarded United Launch Alliance two major fixed-price launch mission support contracts that represent the last remnants of a sole-sourced block-buy deal and, the service says, brings it into compliance with a fiscal year 2016 congressional requirement that it eliminate its practice of awarding cost-plus incentive contracts for mission support.
The Global Hawk unmanned aerial system's communications network won't be upgraded anytime soon:
Air Force defers plan to modernize RQ-4 communications, reviewing development resources
The Air Force has indefinitely delayed an effort to update the RQ-4 Global Hawk's communications network and is "in the process of assessing and realigning resources" for the unmanned aerial vehicle program's many development projects.
The Navy is reorganizing its acquisition office:
Geurts: Multiple structural changes to Navy acquisition offices to take effect today
The Navy is restructuring several high-level acquisition directorates alongside the recent establishment of a new senior civilian position for sustainment, according to a memo obtained by Inside Defense.
Document: Navy memo on acquisition office reorganization