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CBO: The Long-Term Outlook for the U.S. Navy's Fleet

The Long-Term Outlook for the U.S. Navy’s Fleet, Statement of Eric J. Labs, Senior Analyst for Naval Forces and Weapons The Long-Term Outlook for the U.S. Navy’s Fleet before the Subcommittee on Seapower and Expeditionary Forces Committee on Armed Services, U.S. House of Representatives, January 20, 2010

  • “If the Navy receives the same amount of money for ship construction in the next 30 years that it has over the past three decades—an average of about $15 billion per year in 2009 dollars—it will not be able to execute its fiscal year 2009 plan to
    increase the fleet from 287 battle force ships to 313. As a result, the draft 2011 shipbuilding plan drastically reduces the number of ships the Navy would purchase over 30 years, leading to a much smaller.”
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