The fiscal year 2016 omnibus spending bill includes funding to accelerate the Navy's amphibious ship replacement by two years and adds $300 million for the Unmanned Carrier-Launched Airborne Surveillance and Strike system. Accelerating LX(R) procurement by two years would allow the Navy to begin construction on the ship in FY-18 instead of FY-20. This would help support the shipbuilding industrial base by bridging the production gap from LPD-28, which will be built at Huntington Ingalls Industries' shipyard in Pascagoula, MS...
