Check out these must-reads from this week's issue of Inside the Navy:
1. The Navy plans to build a land-based testing site in Philadelphia, PA for Ford-class aircraft carriers' Advanced Weapons Elevators, according to the Naval Sea Systems Command chief.
Full story: Navy building land-based Ford-class Advanced Weapons Elevators test site
2. Part of President Trump's plan to use Defense Department funds to construct a wall on the southwestern border is likely to require congressional approval, meaning Democrats have the power to block it at the committee level.
Full story: Trump's plan to reprogram $2.5B for wall is unlikely to get by Congress
3. SAN DIEGO -- Adm. Christopher Grady, U.S. Fleet Forces commander, is preparing to sign out a "readiness campaign plan" in the coming weeks that will establish a fleet analytics office, and potentially install an officer billet on his staff focused on readiness.
Full story: Readiness officer billet, fleet analytics office to come in Navy readiness plan
4. The Defense Department next month expects to bring online the final sensors in the Space-based Kill Assessment experiment, a project that could chart a new course to using commercially hosted satellites to develop a range of new space-based missile defense capabilities.
Full story: Complete SKA constellation set to be in place, online next month