
The leaders of the House Armed Services Seapower Subcommittee this week reiterated their push to secure increased Navy funds in the next budget and discussed their sense the Biden administration will support growing the fleet to meet future competition in the Pacific. Reps. Joe Courtney (D-Conn.) and Rob Wittman (R-Va.), the subcommittee’s chair and ranking member, respectively, told attendees during the Surface Navy Association’s virtual symposium paving the path toward a 500-ship fleet will require having “uncomfortable” discussion of how…