:

Congress

Three Bills OK’ing New LCS Plan Before The Senate

DDN

Thursday, December 16th, 2010

SHARE:

By Emelie Rutherford The House passed a standalone bill yesterday granting the Navy approval to buy Littoral Combat Ships (LCSs) from both companies vying to build them, thus leaving approval of the change in acquisition strategy in the Senate's hands. The Senate now has before it this LCS bill, filed by outgoing House Armed Services Seapower subcommittee Chairman Gene Taylor (D-Miss.), as well as two other bills granting the Navy's new LCS plan; those are the House-passed continuing resolution (CR)…

Senators Push Navy Against Single Destroyer Request In FY ’27

The chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) and the two senators from Maine last week pushed back on Navy officials for only requesting one Arleigh Burke-class destroyer (DDG-51) […]

Navy Looks To Eventually Assemble Battleship At HII Newport News; Faces More Dem Opposition

The Navy told lawmakers this week it found a dry dock at HII’s [HII] Newport News Shipbuilding shipyard it thinks can use for final assembly of the new Trump-class battleship […]

Navy Leaders Downplay Looking At Foreign Navy Shipbuilding Amid Lawmaker Objections

The Navy’s top leaders this week seemed to downplay and back down on the service potentially using foreign shipyards to build U.S. Navy ships or buying foreign designed warships overseas […]

Army

Senate Defense Appropriators See ‘Risk’ With Army’s Reconciliation Plan To Fund Munitions Increase

The Senate’s top defense appropriators cited concern this week with the Army’s request to fund the majority of its large increase to munitions procurement in fiscal year 2027 through the […]