
The Navy may reverse itself again and re-institute a class-wide service life extension of DDG-51 Arleigh Burke-class destroyers if it gets the funding, the Navy’s top procurement official told a congressional panel Thursday. In written testimony to a Senate Armed Services Seapower subcommittee hearing last week, Navy officials said after evaluating the best balance between costs and capability, it was removing a plan dating back to 2018 to institute service life extensions on the entire Arleigh Burke-class DDG-51 destroyers to…