Inside the Air Force highlights

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

1. The Air Force's chief of staff told lawmakers this week a full-year continuing resolution would set back the Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System recapitalization by at least five months, amid worries about blocking new recruits, shrinking training exercises and being unable to properly spend appropriations by October.

Full story: Goldfein: Full-year CR would delay JSTARS recap, among other woes

2.  Air Force Space Command chief Gen. Jay Raymond told reporters this week at the Space Symposium in Colorado the service is trying to fast-track space acquisition and is working with the Rapid Capabilities Office to field an Enterprise Space Battle Management Command and Control system faster.

Full story: AFSPC to partner with Rapid Capabilities Office on space BMC2

3. Renaming two high-profile organizations that align space interests of the Defense Department and intelligence community indicate their shift from experimentation and tactics development hubs to centers supporting national-level space operations, a military official told Inside the Air Force this week.

Full story: Space C2 hubs evolving from experimental to operational