Inside the Navy highlights

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

1. The Navy wants to use the Knifefish unmanned underwater vehicle as the long-term solution for hunting underwater explosives as part of the Littoral Combat Ship mine countermeasures mission package.

Full Story: Navy views undersea drone as long-term mine-hunting solution for LCS

2. The Navy continues to work on the preliminary design for the dock landing ship replacement and anticipates the project will wrap up in the next couple of months with the goal of potentially accelerating procurement from 2020 to 2019.

Full Story: Navy continues work on LX(R) design, expects to wrap up in a few months

3. The Navy is suspending the National Defense Sealift Fund for two years to be more efficient financially and support the Defense Department's pending audit in fiscal year 2017.

Full Story: Navy suspending, not eliminating, sealift fund for two years