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Modly: Future Navy Focusing On Next 10 Years

Friday, January 24th, 2020

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Modly: Future Navy Focusing On Next 10 Years

Acting Secretary of the Navy Thomas Modly speaks during a National Defense Industrial Association event at the Logistics Management Institute on Jan. 24. (Photo: U.S. Navy)

Acting Secretary of the Navy Thomas Modly said he asked service officials looking at the future force structure to focus more on 10 versus 30 years out as the Navy plans to release its next Force Structure Assessment in the coming weeks. Speaking at a National Defense Industrial Association event Friday, Modly acknowledged the 355-ship Navy was something President Trump ran on and Congress subsequently put into law as a goal. “But we haven’t made a lot of progress in…

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