The Navy's new fiscal year 2020 budget request incorporates $454 million for improvements to the service's public shipyards, and $2.7 billion programmed throughout the future years defense program for those purposes, according to a top Navy budget official. Rear Adm. Randy Crites, deputy assistant secretary of the Navy for budget, told reporters today at the Pentagon those dollar figures are a part of the service's 20-year, $21 billion shipyard recapitalization and optimization plan , of which an executive summary was...
