Sunday, October 19, 2025
Sunday, October 19, 2025
This Friday INSIDER Daily Digest has news on the Space Force's next set of "neighborhood watch" satellites, the Air Force's Collaborative Combat Aircraft program, Army vehicles and more.
We start off with continuing coverage of the AFA Air, Space and Cyber conference:
GSSAP replacement RFP coming soon, Space Force official says
NATIONAL HARBOR, MD -- The Space Force may soon request proposals for its next set of "neighborhood watch" satellites for on-orbit space domain awareness, a top official told reporters this week, opening the way for commercial entrants.
Air Force has solicited propulsion firms for CCA increment two engine proposals
NATIONAL HARBOR, MD -- Within the last year, the Air Force has asked industry to submit both small- and medium-thrust-class engine proposals to potentially power the next increment of the service's Collaborative Combat Aircraft program and other unmanned aerial systems, a Honeywell executive told Inside Defense.
Army vehicle news:
Army wants technical data rights to mend CTT at depots and in the field
The Army is marching forward on its plan to fold right-to-repair provisions into new contracts after releasing an update to industry that sheds more light on what the future requirement will look like for its Common Tactical Truck program.
No Army ground vehicles met service's readiness standard in FY-24, GAO finds
The past decade has seen an across-the-board downturn in readiness rates for Army ground vehicles, with none of its fleet last year reportedly up to par with the service's goal for mission capability, a new congressional watchdog report has found.
Document: GAO's ground vehicle sustainment report
Our colleagues at Inside Cybersecurity have coverage of the Pentagon's recently released cybersecurity risk management construct:
Pentagon launches new cyber risk management approach focused on speed, continuous monitoring
The Defense Department has unveiled a new framework for cyber risk management with a focus on automation, speed and the use of continuous monitoring.
Document: DOD's cybersecurity risk management construct