
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. – The Navy’s top acquisitions official said Tuesday the Navy’s concern with maintaining the Columbia-class ballistic missile (SSBN) submarine schedule margin is focused on the overall submarine cadence, but if issues emerge the Navy will focus on the SSBN over attack submarines. Last week the Secretary of the Navy Richard Spencer and Chief of Naval Operations Adm. John Richardson told Congressional appropriators they are meeting with top officials from the Columbia’s shipbuilders General Dynamics [GD] Electric Boat…