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House Appropriators Match Authorizers To Fund Three LCS

Wednesday, June 6th, 2018

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House Appropriators Match Authorizers To Fund Three LCS

The Littoral Combat Ship USS Freedom (LCS-1). Photo: U.S. Navy

The House Appropriations Committee’s draft FY 2019 Defense Appropriations bill funds 12 Navy ships at $22.7 billion, including three Littoral Combat Ships (LCSs).This is nearly a billion dollars more than the Navy’s FY ’19 shipbuilding budget request of $21.9 billion (Defense Daily, Feb. 12).The appropriations panel released the subcommittee draft on Wednesday before it takes up consideration of the bill on Thursday. Overall, the bill would keep many Navy procurement provisions House authorizers favored in their FY ’19 National Defense…

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