Inside the Navy highlights

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

1. The Navy recently sent Defense Secretary Jim Mattis an accelerated shipbuilding plan that would build an additional 23 ships, at a cost of $61.8 billion, over the future years defense plan beginning in fiscal year 2017, according to a white paper obtained by Inside Defense.

Full Story: Proposed Navy shipbuilding plan adds 23 ships in five years

2. Pentagon cost assessors are evaluating a new spending estimate for the Navy's upgraded guided missile destroyer.

Full Story: Pentagon reviewing new cost estimate for Flight III destroyer

3. The Joint Requirements Oversight Council approved the Block 4 capability development plan last month for the Joint Strike Fighter, about 15 months late, and a cost estimate from the office of the secretary of defense will wrap up this summer.

Full Story: F-35 Block 4 capability plan approved by JROC, cost estimate out this summer

4.  A full-year continuing resolution would not hinder work on the Navy's top acquisition priority: the Columbia-class ballistic missile submarine.

Full Story: Navy's Columbia-class submarine program safe from 2017 budget impasse