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CNO: FSA To Be Ongoing, Unclear On Future Fleet And After F-35C

Friday, December 6th, 2019

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CNO: FSA To Be Ongoing, Unclear On Future Fleet And After F-35C

Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) Adm. Mike Gilday participates in a discussion panel during the the U.S. Naval Institute Defense Forum Washington 2019 on December 5. (Photo: U.S. Navy)

The Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) aims to keep the Navy’s Force Structure Assessment (FSA) ongoing past the upcoming report while also admitting the service has not yet decided what comes after the Ford-class carriers and carrier-variant F-35C Joint Strike Fighters. “When I came into this job we were doing a force structure assessment and the last one we did was in 2016. And that, of course, informs the 30-year shipbuilding plan. And so based on what the [Commandant of…

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