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HAC-D Deletes FY ’09 DDG-1000 Ship, But Doesn’t Fully Back New Destroyer Plan

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Thursday, July 31st, 2008

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By Emelie Rutherford The House Appropriations defense subcommittee's fiscal year 2009 defense bill includes no money for buying a Navy DDG-1000 destroyer, yet its chairman expressed doubts yesterday about the sea service's new plan to stop building the destroyers and restart production of older DDG-51 combatants. The $487.7 billion bill the HAC-D marked up yesterday also directs the Air Force to heed the Government Accountability Office's (GAO) recommendations for its tanker re-competition and directs the Pentagon to consider industrial-base impacts in the…

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