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Second DDG-51 And Naval Tactical Grid Work In 2022 Leads Navy’s $5.56 Billion Unfunded List

Wednesday, June 2nd, 2021

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Second DDG-51 And Naval Tactical Grid Work In 2022 Leads Navy’s $5.56 Billion Unfunded List

The future USS Delbert D. Black (DDG-119) Arleigh Burke-class destroyer conducting builders trials in February 2020. (Photo: U.S. Navy)

The Navy’s top unfunded priorities for FY ‘22 are $1.66 billion for a second Arleigh Burke-class DDG-51 Flight III destroyer and $53.9 million for the Naval Tactical Grid, according to documents obtained by Defense Daily. The service’s original request released last Friday included $22.6 billion for eight new ships, but that included only one new destroyer for $2 billion, one less than planned. Previously, the Navy’s FY ‘21 budget request plan expected to procure two destroyers in the FY ‘22…

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