Thirty-six House members are lobbying top defense appropriators to "send a clear signal of support" to fleet commanders and the industrial base as they finalize the Pentagon's fiscal year 2018 spending bill by funding the Virginia-class attack submarine program "to the maximum extent possible" with levels authorized for FY-18. On Dec. 21, a bipartisan group of lawmakers that collectively make up the Congressional Submarine Caucus, wrote the chairman and ranking member of the House Appropriations defense subcommittee asking for the...
