Highlights from Inside the Air Force

Must-reads from this week's issue of Inside the Air Force:

1. Upgrading the MQ-9 Reaper to track moving targets more effectively will improve the Lynx synthetic aperture radar but cannot replace the E-8C Joint Surveillance Attack Radar System's capabilities, General Atomics tells Inside the Air Force.

Full Story: General Atomics growing MQ-9 radar range in response to new JSTARS plan

2. The F-35 joint program office is determining what data rights it needs from Lockheed Martin and lower-level suppliers to continue Joint Strike Fighter modernization and production sustainment, according to the program's senior official.

Full Story: Winter: Pentagon mulls data rights needed to continue F-35 development

3. Lockheed Martin is planning its fourth multidomain command-and-control tabletop exercise this summer that will use automated tools to plan kinetic and non-kinetic effects in air, space and cyberspace.

Full Story: Lockheed builds on MDC2 exercises with new objectives, technology