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Navy Submits Shortened Long-Range Shipbuilding Plan, Lessens Priority On 355 Ships

Navy Submits Shortened Long-Range Shipbuilding Plan, Lessens Priority On 355 Ships
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 submitted an abridged long-range shipbuilding plan to Congress without the details of construction past fiscal year 2022 and which downplays plans for a 355-ship fleet. The plan, due with the fiscal year 20222 budget request but delivered late, said it “highlights the future vectors the Navy will assess in coordination with the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD), and test in experimentation, to build a modernized naval force with sufficient size and capability to compete effectively, deter…

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