
The Senate Armed Services Committee’s draft FY ’21 defense authorization bill seeks to prevent the Defense Department from listing a purchase year on a ship different from what Congress previously approved, as happened this year. The Navy’s FY ’21 budget request listed the San Antonio-class Flight II landing platform dock LPD-31 as designated in the current budget plan, but Congress previously funded and authorized the ship in the FY ’20 budget, drawing particular criticism from House authorizers claiming this inflated…