The Navy has sent Congress a 30-year shipbuilding plan with three potential procurement profiles, with officials citing the continued proliferation of unmanned systems, future budget uncertainty and the modernization of peer adversaries as the prime drivers for presenting multiple strategies. The document , officially released today, offers Congress three “alternatives” -- two of which assume no real budget growth -- that, at the high end, could produce a battleforce fleet of 363 ships by 2045. To reach 363, the Navy...
