The Navy's fiscal year 2017 budget request will seek new flexibility to allocate resources across a $5 billion portfolio of research and development projects in order to bolster new technology prototyping and experimentation in support of the Pentagon's new program to reinvigorate conventional deterrence against China and Russia. Sean Stackley, the Navy's acquisition executive, previewed the forthcoming legislative proposal set to accompany the FY-17 spending request during a Jan. 7 hearing of the House Armed Services Committee, noting the service...
