
The chairman of the House Armed Services Committee said Wednesday it is “utterly nonsensical” to predicate the Navy’s future fleet plan for 2045 on meeting a goal for 500 ships and said the effort should instead focus on building in the necessary capability for future operational requirements. “Seemingly, for as long as I’ve been a member on the Armed Services Committee, they’ve been talking about a 350-ship Navy. And we’ve never gotten there, we’ve never gotten particularly close,” Rep. Adam…