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Navy Open To Alternative Plan To Restore Virginia Sub

Julie Samuel

Friday, April 20th, 2012

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A Navy official told senators concerned about the Pentagon’s plan to scale back Virginia-class submarine production that the Navy would work with Congress to find an incremental-funding setup to restore a boat slated to be delayed. Sean Stackley, assistant secretary of the Navy for research, development, and acquisition, said yesterday the service’s scrapping of plans to buy two Virginia submarines a year--by cutting one of two planned subs in fiscal year 2014--was “one of the harder decisions that the Navy…

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