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For too long, the U.S. has lived off the dividends of its Cold War investments. Consider its Navy.

After a flurry of tantalizing but incomplete public announcements throughout October, the much-delayed future force plan for the U.S. Navy known as Battle Force 2045 is no longer missing in action. Its prolonged absence, though, will not be without consequence.

Aircraft carriers got a shout-out in the Senate on Thursday, as Virginia’s Senators Tim Kaine and Mark Warner introduced a resolution to mark the centennial of those Navy mainstays.

The resolution introduced by Sens. Mark Warner and Tim Kaine noted that Norfolk Naval Shipyard workers built the Navy’s first carrier, USS Langley, by converting a Navy coal ship. The Langley was commissioned a century ago.

The Navy plans on purchasing hundreds of unmanned surface ships and unmanned underwater vehicles to counter the expansion of China's navy.