This Veteran’s Day INSIDER Daily Digest starts off with new money going to defense microelectronics, some preventative moves made against foreign-made drones, how climate change will be handled by the incoming administration, and some counter UAS news.
The Defense Department announced new investments in microelectronics:
DOD awards $160M to Microelectronics Commons
The Defense Department has announced an additional $160 million in Microelectronics Commons investments made during October.
Regulations are being strengthened against drones built overseas:
DOD taking next steps to prohibit foreign-made drones
The Pentagon is seeking to amend existing acquisition regulations to prohibit the procurement and operation of uncrewed aerial systems manufactured or assembled by certain foreign entities, according to a Federal Register notice scheduled for publication Tuesday.
How the new administration will handle climate change is worrying some folks in the Pentagon:
DOD official worries Trump team will put climate change policy on 'chopping block'
As the Defense Department prepares for the incoming Trump administration and the policy changes it may bring, one senior Pentagon official is holding out hope that there will be broad support for suppressing the impact climate change is expected to have on DOD operations and infrastructure worldwide.
Special Operations Command sees the need for spending more on counter UAS:
SOCOM nearly doubling counter drone IDIQ contract ceiling
U.S. Special Operations Command is nearly doubling the ceiling of a 2022 indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract for Counter Unmanned Systems from $967.6 billion to $1.9 billion, according to a Nov. 6 justification and approval notice from the Defense Department.