
The House Armed Services Committee (HASC) wants to Navy to get a move on with amphibious shipbuilding, with its seapower subcommittee including in its portion of the defense authorization bill an additional $856 million to either accelerate the next generation amphibious ship program or to build another San Antonio-class (LPD 17) amphibious transport dock. Either prospect is good news for Huntington Ingalls Industries [HII] Ingalls Shipbuilding, the maker of the San Antonio-class and one of the competitors for the new…