SCO requests nearly $500M in fiscal year 2019 on five Navy-related projects

By Lee Hudson / March 6, 2018 at 9:33 AM
The Strategic Capabilities Office is spending nearly $500 million in fiscal year 2019 for Navy and Marine Corps related projects including a new-start project, dubbed Kingfisher, to increase the range of lightweight torpedoes. In FY-19 SCO has set aside $43 million for the Kingfisher project to complete weapon design, conduct platform integration analysis and design and develop a concept of operations, according to budget justification documents. Another similar project known as the Contender is focused on increasing the range of...

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