Having failed over the last two years to get congressional approval to decommission seven Ticonderoga-class (CG-47) cruisers, the Navy is adopting a new approach it‘s hoping will win the support of lawmakers while help the service cope with reduced budgets. The new plan calls for sidelining 11 of the 22 cruisers in the near term to gradually modernize and eventually return them to the fleet, a move Navy officials say will expand their lifetime out by more than two decades.…
