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HASC Members Slam DoD Leaders for ‘Anemic’ Shipbuilding Plan in FY ‘21

By Vivienne Machi

Wednesday, February 26th, 2020

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HASC Members Slam DoD Leaders for ‘Anemic’ Shipbuilding Plan in FY ‘21

The future USS Delbert D. Black (DDG-119) Arleigh Burke-class destroyer conducting builders trials in February 2020. (Photo: U.S. Navy)

The top defense civilian and military officials received a stern rebuke from members of the House Armed Services Committee during a Feb. 26 hearing for submitting a new budget request with reduced funds for shipbuilding. HASC Seapower Subcommittee Chairman Joe Courtney (D-Conn.) lambasted Defense Secretary Mark Esper during the hearing, asking the status of a 30-year shipbuilding plan that was expected to be released with the fiscal year 2021 presidential budget request, and critiquing the actual funding request as too…

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