Navy has not identified offset to pay for second Littoral Combat Ship

By Lee Hudson / June 2, 2017 at 4:35 PM
The Navy has not identified a budget offset to pay for a second Littoral Combat Ship in the fiscal year 2018 request and does not plan to do so until July, Inside the Navy has learned. Shortly after the FY-18 budget was released, a Pentagon official said the Office of Management and Budget was moving to add a second LCS, ITN previously reported. "No identification of the offset has been made at this time," Navy spokeswoman Lt. Kara Yingling told...

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