House seapower subcommittee wants to pressure Navy to speed up sealift recap plan

By Justin Katz / April 25, 2018 at 5:28 PM
The House Armed Services seapower and projection forces subcommittee is authorizing the defense secretary to pursue 20 ships for the surge sealift fleet and Ready Reserve Force, according to the subcommittee's mark of the fiscal year 2019 defense policy bill . The mark-up authorizes the Navy to purchase eight foreign-built, used ships and construct 10 others. The eight ships are in addition to two vessels that were authorized in the FY-18 National Defense Authorization Act. The Navy's proposed recapitalization plan...

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