The Navy has submitted a new 30-year shipbuilding plan to Congress, presenting a roadmap to grow the fleet through increased spending, while also providing an alternative, budget-constrained path that would maintain a more modest force size for the coming three decades. The first of these two options, which the Navy describes as its “official PB2025 shipbuilding plan,” looks to expand resourcing after the future years defense program to build a larger and more capable fleet in accordance with the classified...
