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Navy/USMC

Virginia Lawmakers Push Navy To Accelerate LHA-9

Tuesday, April 21st, 2020

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Virginia Lawmakers Push Navy To Accelerate LHA-9

The future USS Tripoli (LHA-7) amphibious assault ship sailed in the Gulf of Mexico for four days during four days of builder’s sea trials in July 2019. (Photo: Huntington Ingalls Industries)

Virginia’s congressional delegation wrote the Navy’s top acquisition official last week pushing the service to accelerate work on the LHA-9 amphibious assault ship and other measures to help shipyards during the COVID-19 pandemic. “To ensure a sustained industrial base, development of the LHA-9 acquisition effort and use of the FY19 LHA-9 Advanced Procurement monies to accelerate construction of an additional large deck amphibious ship,” the delegation requested as one of five points to Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research,…

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