Tuesday, April 23, 2024
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
This Monday INSIDER Daily Digest has news on a stopgap continuing resolution slated for release today, plus coverage of the F-22 program and more.
With lawmakers not coming to agreement on a fiscal year 2021 spending package, a continuing resolution would fund the federal government until Dec. 11, thus averting a shutdown on Oct. 1:
House would grant CR exemption for Columbia-class submarine
House Democrats have crafted a stopgap spending measure that allows the Pentagon an exemption from normal restrictions so it can award contracts for the Navy's first two Columbia-class submarines.
The first release of the F-22 program's capability pipeline modernization effort has been delayed from the end of 2020 to September 2021:
F-22 Capability Pipeline delay to increase program costs by about $90 million
The F-22 program office estimates it incurred about $90 million in cost growth following an 11-month schedule slip to the first release of the program's capability pipeline modernization effort.
The Air Force recently executed a new indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for development, integration, retrofit and production activities for all C-130J variants -- a package the Air Force has dubbed the C-130J Combined Aircraft Delivery, Development, Integration & Engineering, or CADDIE contract:
Potential $15 billion C-130J contract sets stage for modernization, significant procurement
The Air Force has tapped Lockheed Martin to exercise a project using a new contract vehicle potentially worth $15 billion for continued development and procurement of C-130J aircraft -- a five-year deal with options to buy as many as 120 aircraft that, if fully exercised, could dwarf the most recent multiyear procurement deals for the U.S. military's intra-theater lift workhorse fleet.
The Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle request for proposals has been updated:
Army updates draft RFP for Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle
The Army has updated its draft request for proposals for the Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle, deleting a provision that would have allowed a service organization to submit a proposal.
Members of the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence testified on Capitol Hill last week:
Commission tells lawmakers the Pentagon needs more 'top-down' leadership on AI, emerging technologies
Members of the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence are advocating for the Pentagon's top leaders to be more involved in the military's approach to AI and emerging technologies, including through the creation of a new senior-level steering committee.
Document: NSCAI commissioners' joint testimony