The INSIDER daily digest -- Oct. 30, 2019

This Wednesday INSIDER Daily Digest has news on the Navy's plans to get through a yearlong continuing resolution, the Missile Defense Agency's Hypersonic and Ballistic Tracking Space Sensor program and more.

Navy Secretary Richard Spencer this morning said the service has planned for the current stopgap continuing resolution in effect through Nov. 21 and is now evaluating what a full-year CR would look like:

Navy planning for one-year CR

The Navy is gearing up for the possibility of a one-year continuing resolution, as the Senate remains stalled in the appropriations process.

Four companies have won prototype design contracts for the Hypersonic and Ballistic Tracking Space Sensor program:

Harris, Leidos, Northrop and Raytheon win HBTSS prototype contracts

The Missile Defense Agency has selected Harris, Leidos, Northrop Grumman and Raytheon to develop prototype designs for the Hypersonic and Ballistic Tracking Space Sensor program -- a project formerly called the Space Sensor Layer -- to develop a network of orbiting satellites optimized to continuously track long-range missiles from launch to impact.

The former head of the Pentagon's policy shop and a former senator both testified this week before a new House Armed Services Committee task force:

Former Pentagon policy chief raises cyber warnings over threats from China, Russia

The Pentagon's top policy official in the Obama administration is raising warnings about the cyber threats from foreign adversaries such as Russia and China, as conflicts move to a "grey zone" of electronic warfare and advance outages.

Document: House 'future of defense task force' hearing on 'theories of victory'

An officer with the Air Force's Air Education Training Center spoke with Inside Defense this week:

Pilot Training Next program begins integrating with NASA for next session

The Air Force's Pilot Training Next program -- intended to establish an accelerated student curriculum by leveraging biometric data and artificial intelligence -- has begun executing a new partnership with NASA ahead of the program’s third iteration, set to begin in January.

Some big Joint Strike Fighter news, in case you missed it yesterday:

Pentagon to rebaseline F-35 due to 13-month milestone C delay

The Pentagon is updating the F-35's acquisition program baseline, acquisition chief Ellen Lord confirmed today, after announcing earlier this month that milestone C and a full-rate production decision would likely be delayed more than a year due to problems integrating the jet into a new Joint Simulation Environment.

Pentagon finalizes $34 billion F-35 deal for LRIPs 12 to 14

The Pentagon has finalized a $34 billion contract with F-35 prime contractor Lockheed Martin to buy 478 jets across the next three low-rate initial production lots.