U.S. Special Operations Command is asserting it needs an additional $180 million to repair the Advanced SEAL Delivery System damaged by a November 2008 fire. "Competing funding priorities for the current and projected" SOCOM budgets "prevent the command from repairing" the mini sub, the command said in an unusual statement today. Naval Sea Systems Command and Portsmouth Naval Shipyard estimate it will cost $237 million -- $180 million above SOCOM's ASDS budget -- and 32 months to repair the sub,...
