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Authorizers Seeks Navy Strategy To Re-Arm At Sea Within Three Years

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Authorizers Seeks Navy Strategy To Re-Arm At Sea Within Three Years
Sailors aboard Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Spruance (DDG-111) guide training ordnance into the ship’s forward vertical launch system (VLS) cells during a proof-of-concept evolution in San Diego, Oct. 4, 2022. MV Ocean Valor conducted its first at-sea vertical launch system reload with Spruance, demonstrating the ability of the U.S. Navy to re-arm surface vessels who employ VLS. (Photo: U.S. Navy by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Taylor Crenshaw)

House authorizers hope to push the Navy to develop a plan to have the Navy be able to re-arm the surface fleet at sea within three years in their draft of the FY 2025 defense authorization bill released this week. A provision of the House Armed Services Committee’s (HASC) draft FY '25 National Defense Authorization Act directs the Secretary of the Navy to submit a strategy to deliver a re-arm at sea capability to the surface fleet within 180 days…

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