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Courtney Wants More Unmanned Vessel Answers Before Full Production

Monday, February 22nd, 2021

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Courtney Wants More Unmanned Vessel Answers Before Full Production

Rep. Joe Courtney (D-Conn.), ranking member of the House Armed Services Seapower Subcommittee. (Photo: U.S. Congress)

The head of the House Armed Services Seapower and Projection Forces subcommittee said Congress wants to see more prototyping and testing of larger unmanned vessels before they will fully fund the new classes of ships. Given the importance of large unmanned ships in the Navy’s latest shipbuilding plan and strategy documents from late last year, “I do think we want to see more, in terms of just the prototyping and testing. We just do not want to go rushing headlong…

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