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Progressive advocacy groups decry an eleventh-hour attempt by Republicans in Congress to increase the Pentagon’s already massive budget by $25 billion.
Amid competition with China, US lawmakers move proposal to upgrade naval shipyards ANI | Updated: May 19, 2021 21:30 IST New York [US], May 19 (ANI): In a bid to prepare for a greater power competition with China, a bipartisan group of US lawmakers has proposed a USD 25 billion cash infusion into America's outdated naval shipyards. Considering the pace at which Beijing is building its own ships, there are mounting concerns in the American defence community over the adequacy of vessel production and maintenance, reported Nikkei Asia. The bill submitted to ...
Proposed legislation would inject billions into the Navy's public shipyards Includes Norfolk Naval Shipyard in Portsmouth and last updated 2021-05-04 16:33:01-04 PORTSMOUTH, Va. â PORTSMOUTH, Va. - The nation's four public shipyards, including Norfolk Naval Shipyard in Portsmouth, could get a significant boost toward modernization efforts if proposed bipartisan legislation is approved. Last week, a coalition of Senators and Representatives introduced the Supplying Help to Infrastructure in Ports, Yards, and Americaâs Repair Docks (SHIPYARD) Act of 2021. The bill would provide $25 ...
The aircraft carrier USS (Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Wesley J. Breedlove/US Navy) So why is the Biden administration ignoring it, even as new threats to American naval supremacy emerge? There is good news at last for America’s armed forces, or at least for the Navy. A bipartisan group of legislators has sponsored a bill that has the potential to address at one stroke a first-order priority for American national security: upgrading and expanding the nation’s shipyards. It’s the appropriately named Shipyard Act, filed by Senators Roger Wicker (R., Miss.), Tim Kaine (D., Va.)...
To compete with China, Russia, Senate bill to fund U.S. shipyards Robert Besser 03 May 2021, 02:54 GMT+10 A proposed legislation introduced in the U.S. Senate on April 28 would fund a $25 billion investment in public and private shipyards that build and maintain the U.S. Navy fleet The bill would deliver $21 billion to four shipyards, as part of the Navy's Shipyard Infrastructure Optimization Program Private shipyards would qualify for $2 billion, and another $2 billion would be directed to commercial ship repair yards WASHINGTON D.C.: Proposed legislation introduced in the U.S. Senate on Apr...