Amid mounting pressure from the two House defense committees to invest shipbuilding funds in other hulls rather than building additional DDG-1000 ships, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Gary Roughead told reporters this morning funds pegged for DDG-1000 should not be used to build other ships. "The main thing is to not use [DDG-1000 funds] as a cash cow and do other things," Roughead said at a breakfast with defense reporters in Washington. The sea service requested $2.5 billion for a...
