Inside The Navy Highlights

Highlights from this week's edition of Inside the Navy:

1. Deliberations over the Navy's fiscal year 2018 budget will include what one official sees as a key decision point in the service possibly pushing more money toward offensive mining capabilities.

Full story: Navy official sees 2018 as key year in reviving offensive mining

2. The Marine Corps validated two cooperative security locations during the most recent deployment for the service's crisis response force supporting U.S. Africa Command.

Full story: Marines validated two cooperative security locations during deployment

3. Program executive offices at Naval Air Systems Command will soon have to implement open architecture in all new projects and upgrades they make to their software systems.

Full story: NAVAIR programs plan to implement open architecture in new projects