House Armed Services Committee ranking member Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA) continues to push to make the Navy's Sea Fighter a deployable vessel even though the service says it only plans to use the catamaran for at-sea experiments. Hunter this year included language in the House version of the fiscal year 2008 defense authorization bill calling for the Sea Fighter to take over the tasks of the HSV-2, a catamaran the Navy is leasing until next July. The report states the...
