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Shipbuilding, Fighter Aircraft Pick Up Extra Funding In NDAA Conference Report

Valerie Insinna

Friday, October 2nd, 2015

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Shipbuilding, Fighter Aircraft Pick Up Extra Funding In NDAA Conference Report

The USS Donald Cook arriving in Rota, Spain earlier this year. Photo: U.S. Navy

Sea and air power were major winners in the fiscal year 2016 National Defense Authorization Act conference report released on Tuesday.In their versions of the NDAA, both the House and Senate proposed funding increases that would boost the number of fighters, increase the pace of shipbuilding and number of vessels procured. For the most part the Senate’s larger increases were adopted in the reconciled bill, resulting in a $1 billion hike for Navy shipbuilding and the procurement of additional fighter…

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