The INSIDER daily digest -- June 19, 2019

This Wednesday INSIDER Daily Digest has news on what's next now that acting Defense Secretary Pat Shanahan has removed himself from consideration to officially become the next SECDEF, plus the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff talking about folding the Strategic Capabilities Office into the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and more.

We start off with the fallout from acting Defense Secretary Pat Shanahan's withdrawal of his name from becoming the next SECDEF:

Trump will 'most likely' nominate Esper for defense secretary

President Trump has said he will "most likely" nominate Army Secretary Mark Esper to take over permanently for acting Defense Secretary Pat Shananan, whose nomination collapsed this week amid media reports of past violent incidents involving his family.

The vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff recently spoke at a breakfast with reporters:

Selva concerned moving SCO into DARPA could crimp ideas, capabilities delivered to COCOMs

Gen. Paul Selva, the second-highest-ranking U.S. military officer, weighed in on a controversial proposal to fold the Strategic Capabilities Office into the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, arguing combatant commands are concerned the change would add a layer of bureaucracy and impede a pipeline now effectively fostering new ideas and rapid delivery of innovative combat capabilities.

Air Force Gen. Mike Holmes spoke with reporters during a briefing at the service's Life-Cycle Industry Day in Dayton, OH:

ACC, AFSOC aim to refine expanded light-attack plan by this fall

DAYTON, OH -- The head of Air Combat Command said today he hopes to have a strategy for drawing additional airframes into the light-attack experimentation effort by this fall to inform fiscal year 2021 budget planning.

Pentagon officials have said "5G is going to change the way we communicate" and laid out plans for designing warfighting experiments, but since DOD's FY-20 budget didn't lay out any 5G-specific efforts, House and Senate lawmakers have stepped in:

Lawmakers move to increase funds for Pentagon's 5G efforts, setting up Nellis AFB as key testbed

House and Senate lawmakers are moving legislation to authorize increased funding for the Defense Department’s nascent experiments with fifth-generation wireless technologies, including a Senate bill that would set up Nellis Air Force Base as a key 5G testbed for the military.

The Army's Common Post Computing Environment supports the common operating picture by allowing different command posts to directly communicate with each other:

Army approved to field Common Post Computing Environment

The Army is moving forward with fielding the Common Post Computing Environment with new developmental upgrades, a part of the service's tactical network modernization strategy.

Alexis Ross, deputy assistant secretary of the Army for strategy and acquisition reform, spoke this week at the Center for Strategic and International Studies on her service's intellectual property policy:

Army testing new IP policy with four key programs

The Army has chosen four key systems to serve as "pathfinder programs" to inform its intellectual property implementation guidance.

Last but certainly not least, here's some news from our colleagues at Inside Cybersecurity:

NIST issues revised security guidelines for sensitive data in response to Pentagon request

The National Institute of Standards and Technology has issued for public comment draft guidelines for securing sensitive data relied on by weapon systems from attack by foreign adversaries, in response to a request for tougher requirements from the Defense Department.