Gilday: Shift away from legacy platforms is a warfighting imperative

By Audrey Decker / February 18, 2022 at 7:15 PM
SAN DIEGO -- Industry needs to hear the Navy's "pleas" to move away from legacy platforms that won't help the United States deter a fight with China, according to Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Michael Gilday. When industry leverages Congress and forces the Navy “to buy things we don't necessarily need,” it hurts the service’s ability to move away from platforms that don’t make it more lethal, Gilday said Friday at the WEST 2022 conference. “In those instances, I would...

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