Inside the Air Force highlights

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

1. As the Air Force works with Boeing to assure timely delivery of the first new KC-46 tanker, House policymakers want the service to increase its planned aircraft acceptance rate to more than three new tankers per month.

Full Story: House lawmakers want Air Force to accept KC-46 deliveries at a faster pace

2. The House Armed Services Committee is nudging the Air Force to invest more in its EQ-4B Battlefield Airborne Communications Node aircraft, a modified version of Northrop Grumman's RQ-4 Global Hawk, in the chairman's mark of the fiscal year 2019 defense policy bill.

Full Story: Congress proposes more money for BACN, push for RQ-4 upgrades

3. Lawmakers this week approved an amendment to the House Armed Services Committee's fiscal year 2019 defense authorization bill that would fence all funding for the Air Force's Joint Space Operations Center Mission System upgrade and impose significant spending restrictions on the service's Enterprise Space Battle Management Command and Control research and development efforts.

Full Story: House authorizers propose spending limits for JMS, ESBMC2