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Navy 2022 Budget Requests $22.6 Billion In Shipbuilding, Prioritizing Readiness Over Fleet Growth

Friday, May 28th, 2021

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Navy 2022 Budget Requests $22.6 Billion In Shipbuilding, Prioritizing Readiness Over Fleet Growth

The future USS Delbert D. Black (DDG-119) Arleigh Burke-class destroyer conducting builders trials in February 2020. (Photo: U.S. Navy)

The Navy’s fiscal year 2022 budget request seeks $22.6 billion for eight new battle force ships, cutting a planned destroyer, and also divesting $1.3 billion in capabilities including several cruisers and littoral combat ships, all to focus on readiness and research and development over growing the fleet. The Navy’s total FY ‘22 budget request of $211.7 billion is an increase of $3.8 billion over the enacted FY ‘21 budget but the overall procurement level stands at $58 billion, a 5.7…

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