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Navy’s Latest Shipbuilding Plan Has Three Options Again, Only One Reaches 355 Ships

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Navy’s Latest Shipbuilding Plan Has Three Options Again, Only One Reaches 355 Ships
Table A1-5, Resultant Battle Force Inventories and Trade Space from Report to Congress on the Annual Long-Range Plan for Construction of Naval Vessels for Fiscal Year 2024, released April 18, 2023 (Chart: U.S. Navy)

The Navy’s latest 30-year shipbuilding plan, released Tuesday, provided three options again, with two of them never reaching 355 ships and not procuring ships at the service’s preferred rate. This repeats the plan from last year that many in Congress disparaged, preferring a single guide (Defense Daily, April 20, 2022). The report reiterates Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro’s talking point justifying the multiple options, arguing “evolving operational concepts and rapid technological changes make single-point predictions after approximately 10…

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