The six-month continuing resolution proposed by House Republicans would delay funding for several Columbia-class submarines, driving further cost growth and schedule challenges for the already-strained program and jeopardizing modernization of the sea-based leg of the nuclear triad, according to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin. The proposal would have “ devastating ” impacts on DOD readiness and modernization, Austin wrote in a Sept. 7 letter , saying the CR would postpone advance procurement funding for the Columbia program and lead to production...