Inside the Air Force highlights

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

1. The Air Force's new center overseeing nuclear command, control and communications is helping to flesh out system modernization requirements, shaping long-term strategy and partnering with the program executive office in an attempt to better manage the current and future needs of that enterprise.

Full story: NC3 enterprise's new setup aims to improve sustainment, modernization

2. The Air Force is drawing up a directed energy experimentation schedule to complement its recently signed directed energy flight plan, which will influence the effort to fly a defensive laser on the F-15 and chart the service's next steps. A team overseeing the road map's implementation will brief senior service leaders in August.

Full story: Air Force prepares to brief laser experimentation plan this summer

3. James MacStravic, acting Pentagon acquisition executive, has commissioned the Defense Science Board to form a Task Force on Defense Strategies for Architecting the Resilience of National Space Capabilities.

Full story: DOD commissions new task force to consider 'architecting' resilience into space capabilities