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Navy/USMC

Draft House Spending Bill Adds Second Destroyer, Bars Cutting 3 LCSs

Tuesday, June 29th, 2021

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Draft House Spending Bill Adds Second Destroyer, Bars Cutting 3 LCSs

Artist rendering of the first Flight III DDG-51 Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, the future USS Jack H. Lucas (DDG-125). (Image: Huntington Ingalls Industries)

A draft House defense appropriations bill would add a second Arleigh Burke-class (DDG-51) destroyer to the Navy shipbuilding budget and bar decommissioning three littoral combat ships. The bill, released June 29, would provide $3.334 billion for two DDG-51s whereas the Biden administration’s FY ‘22 budget request sought only $2 billion for one ship in an effort to balance spending priorities given a limited funding topline (Defense Daily, May 28). The Navy subsequently put the second destroyer, at a price tag…

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