The fiscal year 2011 spending agreement worked out between the White House and Congress to avert a government shutdown will allow the Navy to build two DDG-51 Aegis destroyers, according to Navy Secretary Ray Mabus. In addition to the destroyers, the agreement made on Friday would also allow the Navy to build a mobile landing platform, Mabus told attendees of the annual Sea-Air-Space Symposium in Washington. Further, the service can now begin scheduling maintenance and repair work on certain warships,...
