Thursday, April 18, 2024
Thursday, April 18, 2024
This Friday INSIDER Daily Digest has news on a classified report to Congress that details a way to defend Guam against Chinese missile attack and more.
A classified report to Congress details a potential programmatic blueprint for defending Guam against advanced Chinese cruise, ballistic and maneuvering hypersonic weapons:
DOD sends Congress classified blueprint for potential Guam Defense System
The Pentagon has outlined for Congress options for a new integrated air and missile defense of Guam in a classified report that marks the latest development in a long-running internal Defense Department debate over the efficacy of such as system, outlining a potential capability that uses elements of the Aegis Ashore as a building block and ties in Army technologies.
Some Pentagon artificial intelligence news:
AI and data initiative could inform COCOMs on how to enable JWCC
The Pentagon's new artificial intelligence and data accelerator initiative will help inform the Defense Department on how to enable combatant commands to use the Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability, a senior DOD official said this week.
A South Korean company is throwing its hat into the ring for the U.S. Army's mobile howitzer programs:
Hanwha seeks to participate in Army howitzer programs
Hanwha Defense, a South Korean company that opened its American division in 2018, hopes to demonstrate and offer its technology to the U.S. Army for the Extended Range Cannon Artillery and other self-propelled howitzer programs, according to John Kelly, the president of Hanwha Defense USA.
The House Armed Services readiness subcommittee held a hearing this week on depot maintenance and modernization:
Navy to submit 30-year ship repair plan with FY-23 budget
The Navy will submit both a 30-year shipbuilding plan and a 30-year ship repair plan with its fiscal year 2023 budget request, the service’s acting top acquisition official said Thursday.
Garamendi pushes for more details on services' near-term depot modernization priorities
The chairman of the House Armed Services readiness subcommittee wants more details from the military services on their near-term funding and execution plans for modernizing their depot facilities.
News on the Air Force's Self-Protect High Energy Laser Demonstrator (SHiELD) advanced technology demonstration program:
AFRL: Remaining high-energy laser demonstrator subsystems to be delivered in FY-22
The Air Force Research Laboratory is poised to receive the remaining major subsystems for its high-energy laser demonstrator effort this fiscal year, after "technical challenges in the build phase" pushed back the delivery timeline, an official told Inside Defense this week.