The Navy will reveal in its fiscal year 2017 budget request that it is reversing the decision to extend the service life of the entire cruiser fleet, according to multiple sources privy to the budget process. Cruiser modernizations have been a contentious effort between the Navy, Congress and the Obama administration. The service will not pursue its full modernization plan because of budget pressures, these sources say. In September 2015 the first in a planned series of modernizations to the...
