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Carter: Sub Cost Could Drop More Than One-Quarter

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Thursday, September 30th, 2010

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By Emelie Rutherford The Pentagon's top weapons buyer told lawmakers yesterday "it's very plausible" the Navy will reduce the estimated cost of the budget-busting SSBN(X) by more than 25 percent. Lawmakers and senior Pentagon officials have been sounding alarms about the price of the Ohio-class ballistic-missile submarine replacement program, which has been projected to cost more than $100 billion and dominate the Navy's shipbuilding budget in the 2020s. Ashton Carter, the under secretary of defense for acquisition, technology, and logistics,…

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