The Navy is facing a weapons shortfall, initially sparked by a decision to maintain high-end capability project funding levels in the face of a declining defense budget and further exacerbated by the campaign against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, according to a service official and budget documents. Capt. Jamie Engdahl, program manager for precision strike weapons (PMA-201), said a decline in defense spending brought on by the Budget Control Act has forced the Navy to cut weapons...
