The INSIDER daily digest -- Oct. 27, 2022

This Thursday INSIDER Daily Digest has news on the Pentagon's latest National Defense Strategy, military contractors' quarterly earnings and more.

We start off with the Pentagon releasing its latest National Defense Strategy, Nuclear Posture Review and Missile Defense Review:

DOD releases new strategies focused on China, Russia

The Defense Department today released a new National Defense Strategy, accompanied with the Nuclear Posture Review and Missile Defense Review, that maintains the U.S. military's focus on China as a "pacing challenge," labels Russia as an "acute threat," and has upgraded the importance of defending Guam.

Document: DOD's National Defense Strategy, Nuclear Posture Review, Missile Defense Review

We also have coverage from this morning's Northrop Grumman quarterly earnings call:

Northrop Grumman expects to hit low end of 2022 guidance, execs say in earnings call

Northrop Grumman expects to hit within the low end of its forecasted range for sales and profits this year, the company announced in its third quarter earnings call Thursday morning.

. . . and here is Boeing's from yesterday, in case you missed it:

Boeing Defense records major losses, pointing at KC-46A and VC-25B fixed-price contracts

Boeing lost $2.8 billion from its Defense, Space and Security business in the third quarter from fixed-price development programs, according to the company's earnings report, because of continuously rising supply chain and manufacturing costs along with "technical challenges."

(Keep an eye out for all the defense contractor earnings news in next week's Defense Business Briefing.)

Our colleagues at Inside Cybersecurity have the latest on the Pentagon's Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program:

Pentagon officials warn contractors on their duty to comply with NIST standard ahead of CMMC

Defense contractors should not wait until the launch of the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program to reach compliance with the Pentagon's cyber standard for handling of controlled unclassified information, according to Defense Department officials.

The head of the Navy's Unmanned Task Force spoke this week at the Association of Old Crows symposium in Washington:

Navy's unmanned task force becoming 'voice of the fleet'

Using a venture capital model, the Navy's Unmanned Task Force is hoping to field "game changers" for the fleet and heavily experiment to prepare the service for the arrival of unmanned systems.