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Toggle open close The Issue On December 9, 2020, the U.S. Navy released its Annual Long-Range Plan for Construction of Naval Vessels, focusing on great-power competition, for fiscal year (FY) 2022 to FY 2051. By itself, this plan is inadequate; it details neither fleet employment nor needed industrial base expansion. Moreover, the plan does not inform the FY 2021 National Defense Authorization Act. The Naval plan promises a manned fleet of 355 ships three years earlier than the current plan, while deliberately phasing in unmanned ships to the fleet, eventually reaching more than 400 manned sh...

US Navy 30-year shipbuilding plan reflects Pentagon big-fleet strategy 11 December 2020 by Michael Fabey The US Navy (USN) released its long-delayed 30-year shipbuilding plan on 10 December with a future fleet architecture that echoes the Pentagon plan detailed earlier this year as part of the Department of Defense’s Battle Force 2045. The Pentagon in February told Congress it was withholding the mandatory Report to Congress on the Annual Long-Range Plan for Construction of Naval Vessels until it finished the Future Naval Force Study (FNFS), which was examining competitive advantage in grea...

A proposed five-year shipbuilding plan the White House plans to soon unveil would give the US Navy a much bigger budget, but slash plans for several of its... 11.12.2020, Sputnik International

The report adds details to a plan introduced by now former Secretary of Defense Mark Esper.

Get all our news and commentary in your inbox at 6 a.m. ET. email White House Shipbuilding Plan Would Shrink Ford Carrier Class Over Navy Objections Critics say the bulked-up fleet plan would cut dangerously into Army, Air Force budgets — if Congress and the Biden administration followed it. Updated at 10 p.m. Eastern with comments from a senior administration official. The Trump administration is poised to unveil a 30-year shipbuilding blueprint calling for one less big-deck carrier but dozens more warships than previous fleet plans — a course critics say is unaffordable an...