Inside the Air Force highlights

Highlights from this week's issue of Inside the Air Force:

1. The F-35 joint program office may have the option to initiate a block buy, even if the services are unable to invest until after fiscal year 2017.

Full Story: Air Force: F-35 JPO could initiate block buy without FY-17 investment

2. The Air Force Office of Transformational Innovation is leveraging parallel contracts for two battle management command-and-control platforms, the Compass Call and Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System, to explore a common business jet option.

Full Story: Air Force explores common business jet for JSTARS and Compass Call

3. The Air Force could save more than $100 million by pursuing a joint life-of-program buy with the Navy for new warhead fuzes, according to the materiel lead and program manager for the Air Force's Mk21 fuze modernization program.

Full Story: Common Air Force, Navy strategy would save $100M for ICBM