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Navy Official Says Budget Worries Led To Destroyer Cut

Friday, July 2nd, 2021

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Navy Official Says Budget Worries Led To Destroyer Cut

The future USS Daniel Inouye (DDG-118) gets underway for builder’s sea trials, sailing down the Kennebec River in Maine from General Dynamics’ Bath Iron Works shipyard in December 2020. (Photo: General Dynamics Bath Iron Works).

The Navy had to make cuts in systems to sustain the current force in the fiscal year 2022 budget request, including redirecting funding for a second Arleigh Burke-class (DDG-51) destroyer to other priorities, to prevent a hollow force, an official said last week. During the West 2021 conference hosted by the U.S. Naval Institute and AFCEA, Rear Adm. John Gumbleton, deputy assistant secretary of the Navy for budget, said that as the department built its FY '22 budget request it…

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