Increasingly worried by the extreme foreign dependence of defense industrial supply chains, Congress is teeing up legislation to address semiconductors and critical mineral vulnerabilities.

The CNO’s updated Navigation Plan is quite similar to last year’s original plan — but it intentionally couches Navy priorities and capabilities in the terms of the new National Defense Strategy, to make a stronger case for Pentagon funding.

Boeing executives called the defense sector’s results “disappointing,” and the company warned in filings more losses on key programs could be coming.

The “air” part has remained in a holding pattern as top aviators rethought how the air side will fit into the new Force Design 2030 plan.

HAL is exploring export opportunities for the HTT-40 basic trainer with Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam and the United Arab Emirates.

“Project Convergence is probably in our future,” said Tyler Barton, a computer scientist and project lead with the C5ISR Center. “Probably not next year.”

The Army exercised its prepositioned stock afloat for the first time in the Philippines this spring in a new process that will allow the service to ensure its stockpiles are optimally configured.

“We really saw how the aerial tier could extend our network, but we wanted to do some further evaluations,” said Army Brig. Gen. Jeth Rey, the director of the Network Cross-Functional Team.

President Joe Biden met virtually on Monday with the chief executive of Lockheed Martin and other companies to spur forward a bill to boost semiconductor production in the United States.

The country also aims to purchase coastal defense missile systems and is currently evaluating submitted offers.