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Gates To Target SSBN(X) Costs

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Monday, May 3rd, 2010

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By Emelie Rutherford Defense Secretary Robert Gates will tackle today the thorny question of whether the Navy truly can afford an $85 billion Ohio-class ballistic-missile submarine replacement program. At the Navy League's Sea-Air-Space conference, he will "talk about the very difficult situation the Navy will eventually find itself in vis-a-vis its procurement budget and its pursuit of the (SSBN(X)) next-generation boomer submarine, which had the potential, at least in the late teens, to be gobbling up almost all of the…

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