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HASC Seapower Would Restrict OSD Funds Until Shipbuilding Plan Is Submitted

HASC Seapower Would Restrict OSD Funds Until Shipbuilding Plan Is Submitted
Huntington Ingalls Industries landed the island on to the flight deck of the future aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy (CVN-79) during a ceremony at the company’s Newport News Shipbuilding division on May 29, 2019. (Photo: HII)

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…

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