Inside The Army Highlights

Highlights from this week's edition of Inside the Army:

1. The chief of the Army Reserve has rejected a suggestion by National Guard Bureau Chief Gen. Frank Grass that the Guard be formally designated as the Army's primary combat reserve.

Full Story: Army Reserve chief bristles at Guard's thrust to claim primary combat role

2. Members of the National Commission on the Future of the Army last week indicated their upcoming report would touch on the well-trodden path of acquisition reform.

Full Story: Army Commission to tee up acquisition-reform recommendations

3. The Army believes a new program is needed for developing a missile that can travel 499 kilometers, just up to the limit of a landmark, Cold War-era arms control treaty.

Full Story: Bigger motor, punchier warhead sought in Army's new long-range missile