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Navy/USMC

Extra LCS Found In FY 2018 Budget Amendments By Cutting Carrier Reactor Core Funding

Friday, June 30th, 2017

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Extra LCS Found In FY 2018 Budget Amendments By Cutting Carrier Reactor Core Funding

The Littoral Combat Ship USS Freedom (LCS-1). Photo: U.S. Navy

The White House’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) requested nearly $500 million more in fiscal year 2018 Navy funding for an additional Littoral Combat Ship (LCS), according to a letter submitted to Speaker of the House Paul Ryan last Thursday.The OMB released a set of amendments to the administration’s FY 2018 budget request that it said “are necessary to correctly reflect the policies assumed” in the budget.The LCS amendment brings the Navy’s total shipbuilding and conversion procurement request up…

Congress

Key Defense Committee Members Face Tight Midterm Races, Including HASC GOP’ers In Virginia

As the mid-term elections near with polls showing an increasing likelihood of a switch in majority control in the House and potentially the Senate, three Virginia Republicans on the House […]

‘Theoretical Potential’ to Achieve 1,509 Combat-Coded Fighters by 2035, USAF Says

In the latest U.S. Air Force fighter force structure report submitted to Congress, the service speaks of a “theoretical potential” to achieve a goal of 1,509 combat-coded fighters in the […]

Budget

Hegseth Pushes For Reconciliation With At Least $350 Billion For Defense ‘Regardless’ Of Midterms Outcome

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Wednesday the Trump administration plans to continue its push for at least $350 billion in defense funds via the reconciliation process “regardless of what happens […]

Congress

Bipartisan Push in Senate to Hasten Export of 155 mm, GMLRS, HIMARS for Ukraine

A small, bipartisan group of senators is backing the Fast Tracking European Investment in Ukraine’s Defense Act, S. 5175, to hasten the export of allied buys of U.S. munitions for […]