By Emelie Rutherford Amid concerns from a key senator about the Navy's proposal to buy littoral ships from both competitors, a new Congressional Budget Office (CBO) analysis shows potential savings in construction costs yet increases in operations and maintenance bills under the dual-buy approach over the next five years. Still, the CBO director, in a Dec. 10 letter to Senate Armed Services Committee Ranking Member John McCain (R-Ariz.), cautioned that his office's analysis of the cost of buying Littoral Combat…
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