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Navy/USMC

Spencer Sees Readiness Improvement In First Year, $2.5 Billion Savings For Two-Carrier Buy

Tuesday, August 14th, 2018

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Spencer Sees Readiness Improvement In First Year, $2.5 Billion Savings For Two-Carrier Buy

Richard V. Spencer, former Secretary of the Navy. He resigned on November 24, 2019. (Photo: U.S. Navy).

Secretary of the Navy Richard Spencer last week said the service has made large strides in readiness in his first year on the job and also revealed a new two-aircraft carrier buy analysis is looking at $2.5 billion in savings.Spencer told a media roundtable on Aug. 7 that his biggest surprise upon becoming Secretary of the Navy was that “I didn’t have a full appreciation for the size of the readiness hole, how deep it was, and how wide it…

Congress

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