A Senate panel is concerned with the Virginia Payload Module's stability, cost and schedule pressures and directs the Navy to submit a quarterly report to update congressional defense committees on the effort. The Senate Appropriations defense subcommittee's mark of the fiscal year 2016 spending bill would set aside $167 million for fully funding VPM and cut funding from two line items totaling about $16 million for the development and evaluation of non-strike payloads for possible insertion into the platform. "The...
