The INSIDER daily digest — June 23, 2021
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This Wednesday INSIDER Daily Digest provides news on the debate on the services’ unfunded priority lists, an upcoming space launch, and more.
House Armed Services Committee Chairman Adam Smith (D-WA) views the military’s unfinanced priority lists as a “coercive mechanism” to inject more money into the defense budget, regardless of what the government has officially requested:
House MPs today interviewed Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs General Mark Milley and debated the appropriateness of President Biden’s proposed $ 753 billion defense budget, with Democrats and Republicans clashing on the importance of $ 25 billion Distinguished in unfunded priority lists military services have submitted to Congress.
News on the Army’s Joint Light Tactical Vehicle Program:
The Joint Light Tactical Vehicle is a permanent capability within the Army’s ground vehicle fleet and is not a modernization priority or legacy system, Army Chief of Staff Gen. James McConville told the Senate Defense Subcommittee on June 22.
Some cyber defense news from our colleagues at Inside Cybersecurity:
The Department of Defense’s internal review of the Department of Defense’s Cybersecurity Maturity Model certification program is designed to help small businesses meet the cyber readiness department’s goals while making potential policy changes to clarify implementation, said Jesse Salazar, director of industrial policy at the Pentagon.
New laws introduced by the legislature this week would oblige Ligado to “bear the cost of correcting any disruption that its operations cause to the public or private sector” and outlines all the areas for which the company would be responsible, including engineering, software, research, site acquisition and labor costs:
A bipartisan convention group yesterday passed a law that would hold Ligado Networks responsible for reimbursing the costs of both public and private users of the Global Positioning System affected by the company’s use of the L-band.
On June 25, SpaceX’s Transporter 2 is scheduled to conduct five Space Development Agency experiments as part of a Falcon 9 mission with many commercial satellites:
The U.S. military this week prepared four small satellites and a payload for launch to validate technologies critical to a new National Defense Space Architecture, as well as combat management and target containment.
The Navy is undergoing a 20-year shipyard infrastructure optimization project worth $ 21 billion that Congress has urged the service to accelerate:
The Navy is taking steps to improve its estimates for dry dock improvement at the shipyard after the offer to work at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Maine has exceeded estimates, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Michael Gilday said Tuesday.
Vice Admiral of the Missile Defense Administration Jon Hill said today MDA will propose a number of options for Guam missile defense that will take over existing sensors, command and control functions, and interceptors, and uniquely interconnect them:
The Missile Defense Agency is putting the finishing touches on possible architectures for a new Guam missile defense system, a report designed to give Pentagon leaders “maximum” options in deciding how to build a 360-degree defense of western US territory by 2026 aimed against advanced Chinese cruise, ballistic and hypersonic maneuvering weapons – a capability that the agency’s director says is likely a “hybrid” of the systems currently in use.
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