Inside the Navy highlights

Highlights from the front page of this week's Inside the Navy:

1. Navy leaders, who this summer plan to seek permission to formally launch their top-priority Ohio Replacement submarine program, do not yet have a plan for how to finance both it as well as the service's conventional fleet modernization needs -- a decision with enormous budgetary consequences.

Full Story: Navy leaders indicate little progress in plan to finance both ORP, rest of fleet

2. The Navy's advanced anti-ship missile and its recently restructured carrier-launched unmanned aerial system are the first two programs to fall under the service's new Maritime Accelerated Capabilities Office.

Full Story: Anti-ship missile, carrier-launched UAS first in fast-track acquisition office

3. The Navy has identified the F/A-18E/F program as a candidate for additional funding in fiscal year 2017 in the event Congress were to increase the amount of money available for defense, resources the service would use to buy an additional 14 aircraft as a hedge to keep the Boeing production line open in the event planned foreign F-18 orders do not materialize.

Full Story: Navy will seek additional F-18s in case foreign sales do not go through