CNO: New integrated FSA will not include unmanned vessels in ship count

By Mallory Shelbourne / January 14, 2020 at 4:36 PM
The Navy's forthcoming integrated force structure assessment will not include unmanned vessels in the battleforce ship count. Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Michael Gilday said during a question and answer session today at the Surface Navy Association's annual symposium that the new FSA will feature a specific number of battleforce ships, in addition to unmanned vessels. "We folded in unmanned, right, but there are a lot of assumptions that go along with unmanned because they're pretty much conceptual," Gilday said...

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