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The nominee for the Pentagon’s top acquisition post told the Senate Armed Services Committee today that the Navy needs a larger and more survivable fleet. “We need more numbers” when it comes to Navy fleet size and “we want survivable; we want strike” for the future,” William LaPlante, a former assistant secretary of the Air […]
The funding will allow the Kittery-based shipyard to work on more advanced Navy submarines — and keep working going well into the future.
The bill will bring billions of dollars to the Hampton Roads military community.
House appropriators signed out an early morning, all-in-one federal funding bill that pluses up the overall budget Pentagon budget and the Navy shipbuilding account over the initial fiscal year 2022 request. The omnibus appropriations bill, four months past the start of Fiscal Year 2022, sets a Department of Defense topline at $728.5 billion over the […]
The bill, which now heads to the Senate, also sets the money necessary for a 2.7% pay increase for military personnel, and includes hundreds of millions of dollars for a variety of Hampton Roads initiatives.