Inside the Air Force highlights

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

1. The EC-130H recapitalization program faces delays as Congress awaits the Pentagon's assurance that the Air Force properly chose the next Compass Call aircraft, the service's military deputy for acquisition told Inside the Air Force this week.

Full story: Compass Call recap schedule threatened by Pentagon reporting delay

2. As Raytheon continues to implement agile software tenets into the next-generation GPS OCX development program, the company is working to provide more detailed performance metrics to Air Force and Pentagon leadership.

Full story: Raytheon giving OSD detailed OCX data during agile software development

3. Two of the Air Force's main sensor providers are focusing on autonomy, on-board processing, wide-area imagery and more as the service lays out its vision of a distributed data-collection environment where capability matters more than which aircraft a sensor flies on.

Full story: USAF sensor suppliers look to next generation of ISR capabilities

4. Space Fence prime contractor Lockheed Martin is preparing to start a site survey in June for the second radar location that would bring the space-observing radar system to full operational capability.

Full story: Lockheed preparing for survey at likely site of second Space Fence radar