Inside the Navy highlights

Check out the top four stories in this week's issue of Inside the Navy:

1. While standing up Program Executive Office Columbia, the Navy is also shifting roughly a dozen uniformed and civilian personnel among acquisition leadership posts overseeing the surface and subsurface fleets.

Full story: Standing up new PEO only one of multiple personnel swaps planned at NAVSEA

2. Phyllis Bayer, assistant secretary of the Navy for energy, installations and environment, has resigned her position, the Navy announced.

Full story: Bayer, ASN EI&E, resigns one day after Spencer commits to not dissolving position

3. The chief officer responsible for transporting military supplies and personnel around the world said sealift is his command's top readiness issue.

Full story: TRANSCOM chief ranks sealift as top readiness concern

4. The Government Accountability Office recently found that the Pentagon has returned more than $80 billion in canceled funds to the U.S. Treasury since fiscal year 2013, drawing criticism from Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), who says the unspent cash raises questions about defense budgets that continue to climb year after year.

Full story: DOD draws fire from Sanders for returning $80B in funding between FY-13 and FY-18