Friday, April 19, 2024
Friday, April 19, 2024
This Friday INSIDER Daily Digest features news on the potential budgetary and programmatic effects of a continuing resolution, the Navy's MQ-25 Stingray unmanned aerial vehicle program, plus more coverage of this week's AFA conference.
The Defense Department early this morning warned of certain programs that would be impacted if a continuing resolution is adopted:
Pentagon says CR will disrupt hypersonics work
The Pentagon has released a brief list of weapons programs that will be disrupted if Congress passes a short-term continuing resolution to avoid a government shutdown.
The MQ-25 Stingray flight test campaign is scheduled to continue into fiscal year 2021:
Boeing says MQ-25 has completed first test flight
Boeing last night announced that the company's MQ-25 Stingray prototype, dubbed T1, has completed its first test flight.
While the Air Force Association's annual conference has concluded, we still have news coming out of it:
SMC commander: Change to LSP strategy could disrupt source selection
The head of the Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center said this week that if Congress requires significant changes to its Launch Services Procurement strategy, it could disrupt the ongoing source-selection process and potentially require bidders to rework their proposals.
Roper considers giving acquisition authority to AFWERX innovation hub
Aiming to tap into technology innovation occurring in industry and academia, Air Force acquisition executive Will Roper may soon empower AFWERX -- a hub that promotes a startup culture among airmen -- with the authority to award contracts on behalf of the service.
Roper calls ERWn negotiations 'spectacular learning event,' a 'good failure'
The collapse of a planned $661 million Air Force and Missile Defense Agency project to develop an air-launched, guided missile interceptor that promised to chase down and destroy enemy intercontinental ballistic missiles immediately after launch was a "spectacular learning event" and a "good failure," according to a senior Pentagon official.
AMC chief not satisfied with Boeing's progress on KC-46 remote vision system
The Air Force has withheld approximately $532 million from Boeing on the 19 KC-46 tankers the contractor has delivered and is considering adding more "pressure" should the company fail to deliver a redesigned remote vision system on time.
(Check out our complete coverage of the AFA conference here.)
AFA wasn't the only conference that took place this week, though. Here's some news from Modern Day Marine:
Marine Corps focusing on force design in next year of wargaming
QUANTICO, VA -- The Marine Corps plans to concentrate on force design for its wargaming efforts over the next year, as the service works to adhere to the new commandant's planning guidance.
Marine Corps looking to extend battlespace 'range' with new reconnaissance vehicle
QUANTICO, VA -- The Marine Corps hopes to expand the "range" of the battlespace with its new reconnaissance vehicle, according to a service official.