Inside the Army highlights

Some must-reads from this week's edition of Inside the Army:

1. Lawmakers can expect to review an analysis of alternatives about Army plans to modernize its lower-tier air-defense radars, an elusive study expected to guide billions of dollars in future investments, a key service official said.

Full story: Congress will get a bite at Army's antimissile-modernization analysis

2. Scores of House lawmakers have written to acting Army Secretary Patrick Murphy to criticize the service for its planned spending on the Warfighter Information Network-Tactical (WIN-T) program.

Full story: Lawmakers decry funding cuts for major Army communications program

3. The Army should conduct a comprehensive risk assessment of its plan to prioritize combat forces over so-called 'enablers,' as the service reduces its end strength to 980,000 soldiers by fiscal year 2018, according to the Government Accountability Office.

Full story: Auditors criticize Army analysis of 'enabler' forces in drawdown plans

4. While defense leaders agree that new thinking is needed to win the increasingly costly global missile-defense race, details of a new shot doctrine, dubbed "left-of-launch," were left out of a public hearing on the issue last week.

Full story: Secrecy surrounds emerging missile-defense doctrine