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Navy/USMC

Navy 2019 Budget Request Has Modest Shipbuilding Increase, Extends Life Of Cruisers

Monday, February 12th, 2018

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Navy 2019 Budget Request Has Modest Shipbuilding Increase, Extends Life Of Cruisers

This article was updated to reflect aircraft procurement.The Navy requested $21.9 billion to build 10 ships in the FY '19 president’s budget request released today, a modest increase over the FY '18 request.That shipbuilding request falls within the Navy and Marine Corps’ combined $58.5 billion procurement and the Department of the Navy’s $194.1 billion budget request. Of that total, 15 billion is under the Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) account.This shipbuilding request is just one more than the FY '18 request…

Army

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Army

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