Navy acquisition chief says service looking at budget trade-offs

By Mallory Shelbourne / October 19, 2018 at 3:28 PM
ANNAPOLIS, MD -- The Navy's top acquisition official said last week the service is looking at ways to shift and save funding for its upcoming budget request, citing the recently canceled Assault Amphibious Vehicle survivability upgrade program as an example. Hondo Geurts, who spoke Oct. 16 at the National Defense Industrial Association's expeditionary warfare conference here, said the Navy is "certainly" trying to follow the path blazed by the Army, which has plans to shift at least $25 billion in...

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