
The House Armed Services Seapower and Projection Forces subcommittee’s mark of the FY 2021 defense authorization bill recommends restricting the Secretary of Defense’s budget until long-delayed Navy reports are submitted to Congress. One provision in the mark would restrict 75 percent of the operation and maintenance funds for the Secretary of Defense until the long-delayed 30-year shipbuilding plan for the Navy is delivered to Congress. The Defense Department has still not submitted the shipbuilding plan or the Integrated Naval Force…