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Appropriators Knock Navy’s Large Surface Combatant Schedule Plan

Friday, November 13th, 2020

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Appropriators Knock Navy’s Large Surface Combatant Schedule Plan

Artist rendering of the first Flight III DDG-51 Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, the future USS Jack H. Lucas (DDG-125). (Image: Huntington Ingalls Industries)

Senate appropriators knocked the Navy’s Large Surface Combatant (LSC) schedule plan and the draft defense spending bill would cut funding due to a lack of clear understanding over the ship requirements and strategy. The explanatory statement released along with the Senate Appropriations Committee’s defense appropriations bill on Nov. 10 heavily criticized the Navy’s funding and strategy for the LSC, planned to succeed the Arleigh Burke-class DDG-51 Flight III destroyers. The Navy fiscal year 2021 budget request included $46.5 million for…

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