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Final FY ’19 Appropriations Bill Funds Three LCSs, More Shipbuilding

Friday, September 14th, 2018

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Final FY ’19 Appropriations Bill Funds Three LCSs, More Shipbuilding

The future USS Wichita (LCS-13) conducts acceptance trials in Lake Michigan in July 2018. (Photo: Lockheed Martin)

The FY ’19 defense appropriations bill conference report funds three Littoral Combat Ships (LCSs), conditional approval of a two-aircraft carrier buy, and kicks in some extra money for the submarine industrial base.Most notably, the conferees agreed to funds three more LCSs at a total of $1.6 billion, two ships and $925 million over the Navy’s request of $646 million for a final LCS. This largely matched the House appropriations bill’s preference for three total ships, while the original Senate appropriations…

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