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No Supplemental Risks Eating Into Growth In Navy’s FY ’25 Budget Request

By Cal Biesecker

Wednesday, April 3rd, 2024

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No Supplemental Risks Eating Into Growth In Navy’s FY ’25 Budget Request

Russell Rumbaugh, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Financial Management and Comptroller. He has served in the position since January 2023. (Photo: U.S. Navy)

The Navy is using expensive missiles to shoot down drones and missiles fired at its ships and commercial vessels in the Red Sea and needs Congress to complete work on the fiscal year 2024 supplemental request to fund the replenishment of these missiles or risk the service having to source from existing and future budgets, the Navy’s comptroller said on Wednesday. The budget request for fiscal year 2025 delivered to Congress in March calls for 5.4 percent overall growth versus…

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