By Jen DiMascio The budget for fiscal year 2010 may begin to take on the affordability of the Navy's plan to buy and sustain 313 ships and the Air Force's mammoth list of unfunded requirements, the deputy defense secretary said yesterday. During a Senate Budget Committee hearing, Sen. Wayne Allard (R-Colo.) asked whether achieving the Navy's 313-ship plan and fulfilling the Air Force's list of $18.75 billion in remaining requirements for fiscal year 2009 were reasonable or overly optimistic. "These…
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