Navy Fleet Plan Needs 3-5% Annual Budget Increases for the Next Two DecadesCNO’s Navigation Plan 2022 codifies fleet plans years in the making, but can it survive Congress?
CAITLIN M. KENNEY | JULY 27, 2022 05:23 PM ET
NAVY TECHNOLOGY
The U.S. Navy’s planned fleet of 2045 will require annual real budget increases of 3 to 5 percent, according to the Navy’s top officer, who called that a “realistic” schedule for amassing the 500 hyperconnected manned and unmanned vessels that national security will require.
“I think it's going to take a couple of decades to get us to yield that hybrid fleet that we think that we ultimately need in order to fight the way we think we want to fight, which is in a distributed manner,” Adm. Mike Gilday, chief of naval operations, told reporters on Tuesday.
That budget growth goal “would be unprecedented if they were to be achieved by the Navy,” based on historical statistics, said Travis Sharp, fellow and director of defense budget studies at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments based in Washington, D.C.
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