Sunday, May 12, 2024
Sunday, May 12, 2024
Today's INSIDER Daily Digest includes the latest news on a growing space consortium as well as how members of Congress are viewing the next budget.
The Space Enterprise Consortium was created last year with a $100 million ceiling -- but the service quickly had to increase it:
Space consortium eyes more interest from larger programs after funding increase
The Air Force's decision to increase the contract ceiling of a popular space technology consortium will allow more large programs to utilize the prototyping mechanism, according to the service's consortium manager.
Meanwhile, Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) is weighing what the midterm elections might mean for defense spending:
Ernst: November elections will complicate budget debate
Though Congress recently broke a streak of fiscal dysfunction and provided on-time funding to the Pentagon for the first time in a decade, some lawmakers say there could be a partisan budget fight looming, particularly if Democrats win a majority in one or both chambers of Congress.
And we have the latest on the new F-35 contract:
F-35 Lot 11 contract includes first slate of new performance incentives
The Pentagon's recent $11.5 billion contract award to Lockheed Martin for 141 F-35s includes the first round of new performance incentives aimed at driving the program's supply chain to improve production and sustainment efficiency.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is moving forward with plans for a hypersonic weapon:
DARPA awards contracts to develop booster for potential ground-launched hypersonic weapon
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has tapped two companies to work on new rocket technology that aims to develop a ground-launched missile to carry payloads that could include a maneuverable, hypersonic weapon for the Army, giving the service options to strike well beyond the range of its artillery systems.
And a former top government IT official is calling the controversial JEDI plan 'a pretty significant statement in terms of intent':
Former federal CIO Scott praises Pentagon's cloud plan as jump-starting IT modernization
Tony Scott, the federal government's former chief information officer, praised the Defense Department's proposal for consolidating its cloud computing operations, known as JEDI, as a significant move in addressing longstanding issues related to IT modernization, including cybersecurity.