After meeting early this morning with Deputy Defense Secretary Gordon England, Navy leaders are moving ahead with plans to curtail the multibillion-dollar DDG-1000 destroyer program. Inside the Navy first reported July 14 the service intended to buy only two Zumwalt-class DDG-1000s, rather than seven, and would aim to restart construction of Arleigh Burke-class DDG-51 destroyers. Following today's meeting, a senior defense official told InsideDefense.com that the Navy's fiscal year 2010 budget proposal to the Office of the Secretary of Defense...
