House appropriators are boosting the Navy's request for modernizing the public shipyards and want the Navy to create a five-year plan to reduce its submarine maintenance backlog, according to the report accompanying the committee's version of the fiscal year 2019 defense spending bill. The defense subcommittee's mark-up of the spending bill was approved by the full committee last week. The committee's report says the nuclear-capable public naval shipyards are backlogged, while the private shipyards have underutilized capacity. Appropriators also say...
