Senate authorizers seek to pump brakes on Navy's future large surface combatant

By Mallory Shelbourne / June 14, 2019 at 10:37 AM
The Senate Armed Services Committee is suggesting the Navy is moving too quickly in its pursuit of the future large surface combatant. The report accompanying the upper chamber's fiscal year 2020 defense policy bill argues the service should integrate potential design alternations it may discover when conducting trials and testing on the first Arleigh Burke-class Flight III vessel before reaching the milestone B decision for the large surface combatant. "The provision would also require that the final results of test...

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