Navy acquisition chief says service looking at budget trade-offs

By Mallory Shelbourne / October 16, 2018 at 11:01 AM
ANNAPOLIS, MD -- The Navy's top acquisition official said today the service is looking at ways to shift and save funding for its upcoming budget request, citing the recently canceled Assault Amphibious Vehicle survivability upgrade program as an example. Hondo Geurts, who spoke at the National Defense Industrial Association's expeditionary warfare conference here, said the Navy is "certainly" trying to follow the path blazed by the Army, which has plans to shift at least $25 billion in spending into new...

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