
If the Defense Department has to operate under a year-long Continuing Resolution (CR), the Navy would have a “dramatic impact” that includes cutting $500 million from the Columbia-class submarine program, delay maintenance on several submarines and aircraft carriers, lower aircraft and weapons procurement and recruiting many fewer sailors. If the current CR that lasts through Feb. 18 is extended a full year, “while our peer competitors move forward with advancing technologies, building their capacity, we will not. We will be…