With gains to shipbuilding, undersea warfare and its tactical aircraft fleet, the Navy emerged as the major winner in the Senate Armed Services Committee’s (SASC) fiscal year 2016 defense authorization bill, parts of which were unveiled last week.The bill would make major cuts and impose limitations on funding to key Air Force programs, and keep it from divesting aircraft officials say it needs to get rid of to pay for other priorities. The committee would prohibit the service from retiring…
