The Air Force Installation Contracting Agency hosted a sourcing summit to gain professional insight in support of its goal to save $2 billion by 2021.

The third annual Enterprise Sourcing Summit took place Tuesday to Wednesday at the Air Force Institute of Technology, and welcomed over 100 professionals in the area of category management, Wright Patterson Air Force Base said Thursday.

The agency has been pursuing the enterprise sourcing effort for five years and is on track with its savings goal.

Nicole Shatto, a procurement analyst for strategic sourcing at AFICA’s operating office at Ramstein Air Base, Germany, said that her site has saved about $35 million through the use of enterprise sourcing tools.

The U.S. Army has initiated a new strategy aiming to address electronic warfare and cyber threats, C4ISRNet reported Thursday.

The strategy consists of four initiatives to organize, educate, equip and develop a doctrine for the Army signals intelligence force.

At a Capitol Hill event Wednesday, Lt. Gen. Scott Berrier said that the effort works to provide signals intelligence support to address information needs in large-scale combat operations.

The strategy also supports the Army’s capacity to gather intelligence for use against adversarial nations including China and Russia, he added.

Lt. Gen. Charles Hooper, director of the Defense Security Cooperation Agency and a 2018 Wash100 recipient, has said the U.S. has approved a total of $46.9 billion in foreign military sales for the first half of fiscal year 2018, Defense News reported Thursday.

The amount exceeds the $41.9 billion worth of FMS deals recorded during FY 2017.

Hooper told Defense News in an interview the White House’s efforts to facilitate arms sales to U.S. partners and allies have helped drive defense exports.

The Trump administration implemented in April a new conventional arms transfer policy in a push to sustain the defense industrial base.

The Joint Space Operations Center has changed its designation to a Combined Space Operations Center during a ceremony that took place Wednesday at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.

The CSpOC will work to help identify, warn, describe, attribute and address threats to space assets, as well as aid the delivery of space-based applications for partners and allied nations, the U.S. Air Force said Thursday.

Gen. John Hyten, commander of the U.S. Strategic Command, has been directing the transition since 2017 in aims to support coordination between the country and its allies, as well as to bolster military performance across all domains.

The newly transitioned center will conduct missions encompassing missile warning; positioning, navigation and timing; optimization and restoration of military satellite communications; infrared-based theater battlespace awareness; environmental monitoring; theater support; defensive space situational awareness; and space defense.

Gen. Jay Raymond, who commands the Joint Force Space Component and the Air Force Space Command, led the ceremony.

The U.S. Navy has asked Congress for permission to shift approximately $62.7 million in funds to address issues with its Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier during the post-shakedown availability phase, Defense News reported Wednesday.

The service intends to move $30 million in funds for repair and tooling work on the main thrust bearings; $20 million for prolonged PSA phase, parts, labor and additional repairs; and $12.7 million to address technical issues with Advanced Weapon Elevators, according to the request document obtained by the publication.

Those issues emerged during the carrier’s post-delivery trials and that the requested funds are part of the Defense Department’s reprogramming request in June.

The aircraft carrier’s PSA started on Sunday, July 15, and the technology and repair issues prolonged that phase from eight months to a year at the facility of Huntington Ingalls Industries’ Newport News Shipbuilding division, the Naval Sea Systems Command said in a statement.