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Rep. Taylor Questions Pentagon Acquisition Chief’s Support For DDG-1000

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Monday, June 9th, 2008

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By Geoff Fein and Emelie Rutherford In a letter to John Young, the Pentagon's top weapon's buyer, Rep. Gene Taylor (D-Miss.), raised his concerns that the DDG-1000 has the potential to bankrupt all other Navy shipbuilding efforts and could cripple the service's shipbuilding plan. The letter follows Young's appearance before the Senate Armed Services Committee last week where he questioned numbers contained in a May 7 letter sent from Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Gary Roughead to Sen. Edward Kennedy…

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