Inside the Navy highlights

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

1. The Navy's expeditionary warfare office is pushing resources toward the oft-ignored area of offensive mining, including sponsoring such efforts under one of the service's largest programs of record.

Full Story: Navy's expeditionary warfare office putting focus on offensive mining

2. The White House budget office recently released a sweeping rejection of several provisions in a Senate panel's version of the fiscal year 2017 defense policy bill, including those that would dissolve the F-35 joint program office and establish Joint Strike Fighter follow-on development as a separate major defense acquisition program.

Full Story: OMB pushes back on Senate authorizers' Joint Strike Fighter provisions

3. The final demonstration for the Navy's Fuel Burn Reduction program on the Joint Strike Fighter engine is slated for the first half of calendar year 2017.

Full Story: P&W Exec: Final demo for F135 Fuel Burn Reduction program in 2017