As the Navy examines how it can grow toward 355 ships, a new Congressional Budget Office report flags the maritime service's assumption that many of its guided missile destroyers will remain operational for a decade beyond their designed service lives. To reach inventory goals set in its last shipbuilding plan, the Navy is assuming 34 Arleigh Burke-class destroyers (DDG-51) built after 2000 will remain in the fleet for 40 years, while 28 ships in the class commissioned before 2000 will...
