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Quick Fix
— The Navy today will reportedly announce the fate of the ousted skipper of the USS Theodore Roosevelt as some sailors have tested positive for Covid-19 a second time.
— The defense supply chain is feeling more pressure as Lockheed Martin trimmed its financial outlook over F-35 “disruptions”
— The Senate on Tuesday passed a $500 billion relief package for small businesses that will now go before the House.
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Happening Today
NORQUIST, HYTEN PRESSER: Deputy Defense Secretary David Norquist and Air Force Gen. John Hyten, the vice chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff, will hold a media briefing at 11 a.m.
On the Hill
NEW RESCUE PACKAGE: The Senate on Tuesday approved a $484 billion coronavirus aid bill to provide more funding for small businesses and hospitals, POLITICO's Burgess Everett and Heather Caygle report. The House is expected to take it up on Thursday, but because someone is expected to object to passing it unanimously, lawmakers have been instructed to return to the Capitol for the vote.
The details: The legislation allocates another $321 billion to replenish the Paycheck Protection Program for small businesses. The Department of Health and Human Services will receive $100 billion, including $75 billion for hospitals to cover increased expenses and lost revenue and $25 billion for coronavirus testing, POLITICO's Caitlin Emma reports.
VOTING CHANGES: House Democrats are pushing ahead with temporary changes to House rules, despite GOP opposition, that would permit lawmakers to cast votes by proxy for their colleagues, POLITICO's Sarah Ferris, Melanie Zanona and Heather Caygle report.
"The change, according to top Democrats, would allow the House to return to some semblance of normalcy, after scrapping roll call votes for five weeks to limit the risk involved with calling all 430 members back to Washington. The plan is expected to come to the floor Thursday."
RECOGNIZING ‘FRONTLINE TROOPS’: A group of nine freshman House Democrats with military and intelligence backgrounds on Tuesday introduced a resolution recognizing workers responding to the coronavirus pandemic. The resolution compares health care, food service, transportation and other essential workers to frontline troops in battle.
"Our nation is at war, and these are our frontline troops, defending us against a deadly virus, keeping supply lines open, maintaining lines of communication — and risking their lives every day to do so," said Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.), a former CIA officer and Pentagon official.
Coronavirus
CROZIER’S FATE COULD COME TODAY: “The Navy is planning to announce Wednesday findings of its investigation into how a letter from the captain of the USS Theodore Roosevelt describing a COVID-19 outbreak on the ship was leaked to the news media,” the San Diego Union-Tribune reports.
Admiral Mike Gilday, chief of naval operations and the service’s top officer, will announce investigation results as early as Wednesday at the Pentagon, according to a Navy official,” the newspaper reports.
“The fate of the Roosevelt’s former commanding officer, Capt. Brett Crozier, hinges on whether Gilday agrees with an assessment by former acting Navy secretary Thomas Modley that Crozier isn’t fit for command because he did not take proper steps to ensure his letter did not leak,” the report adds.
More rough seas: “The Navy is delaying plans to begin moving sailors back onboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt after a number of crew members continued to test positive for coronavirus after isolation,” our colleague Lara Seligman reports.
The move raises new questions about the spread of Covid-19 and could delay the departure of the ship, which has been docked in Guam since March 27. The decision, laid out in a memo reviewed by POLITICO, comes after a number of sailors who previously tested negative tested positive, Navy officials said.
“Results of out-testing portions of the TR crew following 14 days of quarantine leads us to reevaluate our assessment of how the virus can remain active in an asymptomatic host,” according to a Navy directive.
Nine sailors assigned to ship are now in the hospital as the number of cases topped 700, Stars and Stripes, reports.
Related: Congress wants CDC to devise social distancing guidelines for warships, via Foreign Policy.
And: Why the Navy needs a “stem to stern” review following the Roosevelt incident, via Defense and Aerospace Report.
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Industry Intel
FRAYING AT THE LOWER TIERS: Small companies at the bottom of the supply chain are facing more challenges from the spread of the coronavirus even as the Pentagon is accelerating payments and urging prime contractors to flow cash down to their suppliers, our colleague Jacqueline Feldscher reports. And for some, a bigger worry than cash flow is the spread of the virus itself in firms at the far reaches of the industrial base.
“My concern is less liquidity … and more that they are having higher [numbers] of positive Covid-19 cases,” said Anne Shybunko-Moore, the owner of GSE Dynamics, a 72-person aircraft parts supplier in New York. “ ... They’re having to shut down, the staff is decreasing. In the last week, I’ve started to get emails and notifications that companies are having to shut down and delay shipments. … My biggest concern is a supply chain impact to the lower tiers that feed me.”
F-35 ‘disruption’ clouds outlook: Lockheed Martin is especially concerned about the impact on the supply chain for the F-35 fighter jet, prompting the company to narrow its projected net sales outlook for the year, Feldscher also reports.
“It’s probable there’s going to be some supply chain disruption,” Chief Financial Officer Kenneth Possenriede said Tuesday on a call with investors, noting that the company’s aeronautics business is most at risk from social distancing measures, the inability to get into work sites, and supply chain trouble. “Our analysis to date has given us concern, so we reduced our guidance for aeronautics. That’s specifically for F-35 production.”
Still, compared to the same period last year, the company's net first quarter sales were up 9 percent to $15.7 billion.
Boeing, General Dynamics and Northrop Grumman will release their first quarter results on April 29.
State Department
AN ALLIANCE OF DISINFORMATION: “China, Iran and Russia are using the coronavirus crisis to launch a propaganda and disinformation onslaught against the U.S., the State Department warns in a new report,” POLITICO’s Betsy Woodruff Swan reports.
The unpublished report from State’s Global Engagement Center — a fledgling office focused on fighting the global information war — says that while the three governments have pushed out the same propaganda in the past, the pandemic has seen the convergence of their messaging accelerate. One core message has been that China is a strong global health leader and that the U.S., meanwhile, is a weak ally.
“ ... In a short period of time the [Chinese Communist Party] went from letting Russian disinformation claiming the U.S. was the source of the virus proliferate in Chinese social media, to raising questions on state media about the origin’s source, to promoting disinformation that the U.S. was the source of the virus,” Lea Gabrielle, who runs the office, told POLITICO.
Top Doc
TERROR ON THE RISE ON AFRICA: The American Enterprise Institute is out today with a new report and a separate interactive graphic on the rise of Islamic terror groups in the Sahel region of northwestern Africa.
“The Salafi-jihadi ecosystem in the Sahel is strengthening rapidly,” writes Katherine Zimmerman, a resident fellow at the hawkish think tank and an adviser to its Critical Threats Project. “The number of attacks will continue to rise and will become deadlier as groups’ capabilities improve.”
Making Moves
Letitia Long, a former director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, has been elected to the board of directors of Parsons Corporation, a technology services firm specializing in defense and intelligence.
Charles "Ari" Einhorn has been promoted to director of the White House Office of the Special Representative for International Negotiations after serving as a special assistant in the office.
Brian Cavanaugh has been promoted to senior director of resilience at the National Security Council and special assistant to the president. He was the NSC’s deputy senior director of resilience.
Speed Read
— U.N. warns of ‘worst humanitarian crisis since World War II’: The Associated Press
— No evidence North Korean leader in grave danger, U.S. official say: Newsweek
— Senate report confirms Russia aimed to help Trump in 2016: POLITICO
— Spy chief rebuffs congressional demand to halt intelligence overhaul: POLITICO
— The emerging field of ‘lunaspatial intelligence’: Air Force Magazine
— DHS pledges to ward off GPS interference from 5G: POLITICO Pro
— Democrats seek plan for return of federal workers: POLITICO
— USNS Comfort to depart New York City: POLITICO Pro
— Former Defense Secretary Jim Mattis is modeling leather jackets. Really: Business Insider
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