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Navy/USMC

Navy’s 2024 Budget Seeks $33 Billion For Nine New Ships, $17 Billion For 88 Aircraft

Monday, March 13th, 2023

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Navy’s 2024 Budget Seeks $33 Billion For Nine New Ships, $17 Billion For 88 Aircraft

Artist rendering of the future Columbia-class nuclear-armed ballistic missile submarine (SSBN), which will replace the Ohio-class submarines. (Illustration: U.S. Navy)

The Navy’s fiscal year 2024 budget request, whose details were released Monday, seeks $255.8 billion overall, with $32.8 billion of that devoted to procuring nine battle force ships and $17 billion to buy 88 aircraft. Speaking to reporters Friday ahead of the detailed budget roll out, Rear Adm. John Gumbleton, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy for budget, said these levels are 4.5 percent, or $11 billion more than the enacted FY ‘23 budget passed by Congress. The Navy procurement…

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