
A new Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report released April 22 estimates the Navy’s latest long-term shipbuilding plan would cost 10 percent more than the service expects. The Navy submitted the annual 30-year shipbuilding plans to Congress 10 months late in December, rather than as normal with the annual Defense Department budget request in early 2020. Beyond being late, it mapped out a plan to drastically increase the size of the fleet, reaching 355 manned ships within a decade and reaching…