Sunday, October 19, 2025
Sunday, October 19, 2025
This Friday INSIDER Daily Digest has news on a proposed high-altitude missile detection sensor system, plus Navy shipbuilding funding, the Army deploying a Typhon missile system to Japan and more.
The Missile Defense Agency issued a solicitation this week seeking prototype demonstrations for a High-Altitude Infrared Search and Track program, or HAIRST:
MDA seeks high-altitude infrared sensor to better manage high-volume missile raids
The Missile Defense Agency is seeking industry proposals for a new high-altitude infrared sensor system that can scan wide swaths of the sky for large numbers of incoming missiles and generate high-resolution tracking data.
Document: MDA's HAIRST solicitation
It looks like additional funding for shipyards might still be available:
Navy official: SAWS proposal not dead, cites complications
The Navy's proposal to free up additional funding to boost shipyard wages is not quite dead, an official told reporters Thursday, despite debate earlier this year between lawmakers and the White House Office of Management and Budget over implementing the funding mechanism.
China isn't exactly happy with the U.S. deploying a Typhon missile system to Japan:
3MDTF debuts Typhon in Japan, draws Chinese rebuke
The Army for the first time has deployed its Typhon missile system on Japanese soil, sparking an incensed reply from the Chinese government, which sees the move as a threat to regional stability.
James Mazol testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee this week on his nomination to be deputy defense under secretary for research and engineering:
DOD tech deputy nominee wants private capital to expand industrial base
Private capital markets should be tapped to support the development and scaling of technologies critical to national security, the nominee to be the Pentagon's deputy technology chief told lawmakers this week.
Document: Senate hearing on DOD IG, CIO, R&E, SOLIC nominations
Our colleagues at Inside Cybersecurity interviewed the head of the Pentagon's Cyber Accreditation Body this week:
CMMC accreditation body expects to update assessment process guide in December
A new acquisition final rule for the Pentagon's Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program is accelerating the work of the independent accreditation body responsible for meeting the demand for assessments and providing guidance to assessors, according to Cyber AB CEO Matthew Travis.