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Senators Seek To Curb Ship Procurement Year Issue

Tuesday, June 30th, 2020

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Senators Seek To Curb Ship Procurement Year Issue

Artist rendering of the first Flight II San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock, LPD-30. (Image: HII)

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…

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