
During his trip to California this week, Defense Secretary Ashton Carter detailed a number of shipbuilding, aviation and munitions investments from the fiscal 2017 budget request, including a plan to buy an anti-ship version of the SM-6 missile that was secretly tested last month.The Pentagon will request $2.9 billion over the next five years to maximize the production of the SM-6 made by Raytheon [RTN], and transform it from a surface-to-air missile used to destroy cruise and ballistic missiles to…