HASC Subcommittee Marks Recommend Additional Navy Ship Buys, Multi-Year Aircraft Deals
By: Megan Eckstein
April 25, 2018 7:29 PM • Updated: April 25, 2018 8:56 PM
CAPITOL HILL – The House Armed Services Committee released sections of its Fiscal Year 2019 National Defense Authorization Act, which recommends buying 13 ships and beginning a handful of aircraft multiyear procurement contracts.
Seapower and Projection Forces Subcommittee
The bill would authorize the 10 ships the Navy requested in its FY 2019 budget requests, and the seapower and projection forces subcommittee recommends adding an additional two Littoral Combat Ships – for a total of three, to meet industry needs – and the procurement of aircraft carrier CVN-81 to support a two-ship block buy. Whether the full committee accepts those recommendations won’t be known for two more weeks, just prior to the May 9 full committee NDAA markup session.
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