Navy to Spend $350 Million For T-ADC(X) Cargo Ship in FY-01

By Dan Dupont / January 6, 2000 at 5:00 AM
The Pentagon late last month added $350 million to the Navy's fiscal year 2001 budget for the purchase of an additional Auxiliary Dry Cargo Ship logistics support ship, completing a new shipbuilding plan approved Dec. 17. Inside the Navy reported Dec. 27 that the plan closes a $5 billion shipbuilding gap and continues the service's strategy of pushing increases in building rates to the later years of the future years defense plan, which extends through FY-05. However, it did not...

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