Sunday, December 8, 2024
Sunday, December 8, 2024
This Wednesday INSIDER Daily Digest has news on a multibillion-dollar amphibious warship contract, the Pentagon's financial management practices and more.
HII will be building a bunch of amphibious warships in the coming years under a new, multibillion-dollar contract:
Navy awards Ingalls $9.5 billion for four amphibious warships
The Navy has awarded HII’s Ingalls Shipbuilding two contracts totaling nearly $9.5 billion for three Flight II San Antonio-class amphibious transport docks and one America-class amphibious assault ship, the Navy announced this week.
The House Oversight and Accountability government operations and the federal workforce subcommittee held a hearing this week on the Defense Department's financial management practices:
DOD's 'window is closing' to make progress toward clean audit by 2028 deadline
House lawmakers volleyed bipartisan criticism at the Defense Department for its years-long failure to achieve a clean financial audit, with one government watchdog warning that DOD still has a long road ahead of it before reaching the 2028 deadline mandated by Congress.
Document: House hearing on DOD's financial management practices
Space Systems Command has awarded contracts to Astranis, Axient, L3Harris and Sierra Space as part of the first round of R-GPS satellites:
Space Force awards R-GPS contracts through Quick Start authority
The Space Force awarded four companies contracts to create design concepts for the first set of Resilient-GPS satellites, a program created outside of the typical budgeting cycle through the Quick Start authorities granted in last year’s defense policy act.
The Pentagon has invested in the tin industrial base:
DOD awarding $16.2M for domestic tin production facility
The Defense Department is awarding Nathan Trotter & Co. Inc. a $16.2 million contract to establish a facility enabling comprehensive capacity for the domestic smelting, refining and recycling of tin, the department announced.
A Modernized Selected Acquisition Report, cleared for publication on Aug. 7, discusses the Marine Corps' Amphibious Combat Vehicle Family of Vehicles program:
Marine Corps negotiating ACV cost and schedule amid funding shortfalls
The Marine Corps is engaged in cost negotiations to drive down the price of its Amphibious Combat Vehicle program as funding shortfalls and rising prices put the program's acquisition objectives of 175 ACV-30 variants and 632 total ACVs at risk.
Document: DOD modernized SAR on the ACV program
The Army next year will hold the Arcane Thunder 25 demonstration, an annual field-based exercise that looks at technological capabilities and identifies potential holes to plug:
Army reaches out for new technologies to test at Arcane Thunder 25
The Army is seeking emerging technologies that can help it with "reconnaissance, target development and precision targeting operations" across different domains, according to a request for information released Monday.