The Senate Armed Services Committee did not force the Pentagon to buy as many unrequested items as the House Armed Services Committee did, but in several cases the senators authorized buying a platform and left finding the money to do so up to military leaders. In the case of the Navy’s aircraft carrier USS George Washington (CVN-73), SASC chose to provide the Navy secretary the authority “to use unobligated funds from underperforming programs to transfer up to $650 million for…
