House seapower lawmakers blast Navy shipbuilding plan, say more specificity needed

By Aidan Quigley / July 20, 2021 at 4:57 PM
Key seapower lawmakers want a more detailed long-term shipbuilding plan as they believe the Navy's most recent plan, the first released under the Biden administration, is too vague. House Armed Services seapower and projection forces subcommittee Chairman Joe Courtney (D-CT) said Tuesday at the Navy League's Sea-Air-Space prequel that the plan, released in June, is not precise enough to meet Congress' requirements for a 30-year shipbuilding plan. "Ranges and sort-of indications, as opposed to actual precision, is really not acceptable,"...

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