The Senate Appropriations Committee is calling on the Navy to "reintroduce stability and predictability" into shipbuilding and budgeting, highlighting increasing costs across ship acquisitions and a growing divide between the Navy's fleet requirements and its actual fleet size. In the Senate’s fiscal year 2024 defense spending bill, appropriators aim to provide $33.3 billion for shipbuilding, but note that more than $1.6 billion of the Navy’s initial $32.8 billion request will compensate for cost overruns on 17 ships that were fully...
