Inside the Pentagon highlights

A few must-reads from this week's edition of Inside the Pentagon:

1. After spending weeks dispatching senior leaders to Capitol Hill to make the case for $30 billion in additional fiscal 2017 defense spending, the Pentagon is now worried partisan gridlock might leave it without any new FY-17 funding.

Full story: Pentagon pivots from seeking supplemental spending to fending off fiscal crisis

2. Defense Innovation Board Chairman Eric Schmidt believes the board will examine the aftermath of new legislation that disestablishes the Pentagon's acquisition chief.

Full story: Schmidt: Defense Innovation Board could examine AT&L disestablishment

3. COLORADO SPRINGS, CO -- The Air Force has announced a number of changes to the way it organizes and manages the space enterprise, but a top House lawmaker is not convinced the measures go far enough to address fragmentation and a lack of space leadership within the Defense Department.

Full story: Air Force reveals changes to space organization; Rep. Rogers skeptical