Inside the Navy highlights

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

1. Ahead of the Navy's next force-structure assessment, the service aims to "pull together something" quicker to help inform the fiscal year 2020 budget request, according to the Navy's top requirements officer.

Full story: Ahead of FSA, Navy will send quick look to Congress to inform FY-20 budget

2. The United States will propose changes to how the Missile Technology Control Regime guides exports of unmanned aerial systems at an upcoming annual meeting, as officials want to enable U.S. companies to compete with countries like China for foreign UAS sales.

Full story: U.S. looks to November policy meeting to push foreign drone sales

3. Aggregating data from varied data systems presents the biggest challenge to the Navy's foray into artificial intelligence, the chief of naval research said last week.

Full story: ONR chief: 'Fragmented' data poses 'biggest challenge' to Navy's AI efforts

4. The Navy last week awarded Perspecta a contract worth up to $787 million to extend the existing Next Generation Enterprise Network contract.

Full story: Navy awards Perspecta NGEN extension