Inside the Air Force highlights

Some must-reads from this week's Inside the Air Force:

1. A long-term continuing resolution means that a number of key, new-start experiments aimed at testing future air superiority concepts will be put on hold until Congress passes a fiscal year 2017 appropriations bill.

Full Story: Extended CR will put hold on air superiority, light-attack experimentation

2. Congressional authorizers have shown support for the Air Force's plan to recapitalize the Compass Call fleet, but want the platform to prove itself before committing to buy more than two aircraft.

Full Story: Congress strikes open competition language for new Compass Call platform

3. As the Air Force works to overcome the technical challenges associated with integrating directed energy weapons into its fleet, the service is also considering its strategy for operationalizing the new technology.

Full Story: Air Force to explore operational feasibility of directed energy weapons