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Navy To Unveil ‘Vision’ Paper In Mid-May

By Marc Selinger

Thursday, April 27th, 2017

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Navy To Unveil ‘Vision’ Paper In Mid-May

Chief of Naval Operations Adm. John Richardson speaks at the Brookings Institution. (Photo by Marc Selinger/Defense Daily)

The U.S. Navy plans to publish a paper in mid-May that will lay out a “vision” for its future force, service officials said April 27.The article will explain how the Navy intends to pursue two key but expensive goals -- expanding the fleet and incorporating new technology into those ships -- within a “budget-informed” environment, said Chief of Naval Operations Adm. John Richardson.“We’re all over the world … and you have to have capacity to be there,” Richardson said at…

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