The Senate Armed Services Committee has authorized the Navy secretary to reprogram up to $650 million from other areas of the Navy's budget to pay for the refueling and complex overhaul of the aircraft carrier George Washington, despite the service's wishes to do otherwise. The committee's mark-up of the fiscal year 2015 defense authorization bill allows the Navy secretary to use unobligated funds from underperforming programs to transfer up to $650 million for advance planning of the George Washington's (CVN-73)...
