Since fiscal 2018, Congress has added $1.6 billion to the U.S. Navy’s shipbuilding and conversion accounts for warship line items, including the Columbia-class attack submarines, to ramp up production through shipyard upgrades and workforce additions. That approach may be the one taken for munitions, if congressional appropriators do not allow multi-year procurements in fiscal 2024 for munitions or significantly cut such requests, such as those for the AGM-158B U.S. Air Force Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile-Extended Range (JASSM-ER), AGM-158C Long Range…
