The Navy never reaches its 355-ship fleet goal in the 30-year shipbuilding plan recently sent to Congress, leaving naval analysts and others disappointed in the service achieving its inventory objective. House Armed Services seapower and projection forces subcommittee Chairman Rob Wittman (R-VA) told Inside the Navy Feb. 15 the 30-year shipbuilding plan does not “get […]
Wittman: Armed services committee won’t accept proposed Navy shipbuilding plan; more hulls needed
CAPITOL HILL – The House Armed Services Committee will not accept a Navy shipbuilding plan of anything lower than 13 ships and $26 billion in Fiscal Year 2019, a subcommittee chairman said, suggesting HASC may add several ships beyond what the Navy requested earlier this week. Rep. Rob Wittman (R-Va.), who chairs the HASC seapower […]