The Navy heavily boosted Fire Scout buys, added seven P-8As to the future years defense plan and made the expected additions and subtractions to its F/A-18E/F Super Hornet procurement and Joint Strike Fighter buys, according to the president's fiscal year 2012 budget proposal rolled out today. The continuing resolution in effect until March 4 is forcing the Navy to operate under a shipbuilding budget that is $1.8 billion short, but the gap amounts to something like a $6 billion shortfall...
