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Navy/USMC

Amphib Industrial Base Working With Congress to Secure Funding For 12th LPD

Defense Daily Staff

Thursday, February 6th, 2014

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Amphib Industrial Base Working With Congress to Secure Funding For 12th LPD

The Amphibious Warship Industrial Base Coalition wrote to the Congressional Shipbuilding Caucus Thursday to request funding for a 12th LPD amphibious transport dock that the coalition believes the Pentagon and Congress may grant. AWIBC chairman Brian Schires told Defense Daily on Thursday that the LPD program has received “strong support, particularly from the members where we have a large presence in their particular states or districts”--which, given that the coalition represents more than 2,000 businesses in 48 states and 340…

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