An admiral who has urged Congress to provide $60 billion in supplemental funding to buy 12 new nuclear ballistic missile submarines without gutting other shipbuilding programs says Navy and Pentagon leaders have not formally endorsed the proposal, but he predicts they will agree some supplemental funding is needed. Rear Adm. Richard Breckenridge, the Navy's director of undersea requirements (N97), told lawmakers in September that the SSBN(X) sub program -- slated to field replacements for aging Ohio-class boomers beginning in fiscal...
