With the delivery of the Navy's 30-year shipbuilding plan to Congress "imminent," the service is also preparing a new force-structure assessment that will include the ship requirement number for the fleet, according to Chief of Naval Operations Adm. John Richardson. "I would bet a paycheck the number will be greater than 308 ships," Richardson said March 10 in Washington during a conference hosted by McAleese and Associates. The Navy's force-structure assessment was last updated in 2014. Vice Adm. Joseph Mulloy,...
