This Monday INSIDER Daily Digest has news on the Army's Paladin Integrated Management program, the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense program, a U.S. Southern Command autonomy force and more.

The Army is requesting $84 million for the Paladin Integrated Management program in FY-27; it has zeroed out the budget line in every subsequent year through FY-31 despite still needing 158 M109 howitzers and resupply vehicles:

Army revamping Paladin acquisition objective

The Army is dropping the total number of Paladins it wants to field to reconcile a paradoxical promise in its fiscal year 2027 budget request: that it will finish fielding as it simultaneously stops procurement.

The Army is planning to spend more than $11 billion on the THAAD missile defense system in FY-27:

Army plans to spend billions on THAAD across FYDP under multiyear framework

With the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense program set to transition from the Missile Defense Agency to the Army beginning in fiscal year 2027, the service plans to spend billions in procurement dollars on the program over the future years defense program, budget justification documents show.

The latest cyber defense coverage from our colleagues at Inside Cybersecurity:

Sutton highlights vision to House panel on reshaping cybersecurity efforts

Katherine Sutton, assistant secretary of defense for cyber policy, outlined her vision for aligning the Pentagon's national defense strategy with cyber policy goals at a House Armed Services subcommittee hearing last week on the Defense Department's cyber posture.

Document: Defense intel, cyber communities' FY-27 posture statements

U.S. Southern Command is working to establish a new Autonomous Warfare Command and fully integrate it into operations and missions:

SOUTHCOM to stand up autonomy force as DOD preps for massive increase in drone spending

U.S. Southern Command is standing up a team focused on autonomous warfare, as budget documents released earlier this month show the Pentagon is requesting $54.6 billion in fiscal year 2027 for the previously little-known Defense Autonomous Warfare Group.

The Pentagon offered the public its first hands-on look last week at the hardware likely to form the initial instantiation of Golden Dome:

Pentagon's Golden Dome director spotlights a once-quiet Army sensor

The Golden Dome director called out just one piece of technology by name at the Pentagon's first major public event for the homeland missile-defense program this week -- a passive Army sensor the service began building to patch vulnerabilities in its own air-defense network and whose existence commanders had for years played down.