requested<\/a> this year. (The CR also includes five cost-to-complete adjustments for the frigate totaling $400 million, which will cover prior-year shipbuilding cost increases from FY2020-24.)<\/p>\nAlso on the list of cuts is the Landing Ship Medium, a key priority for the Marine Corps and a frequent point of friction for the Navy. The line item for this intratheater transport ship has been reduced to just $30 million, down from a requested amount of $268 million.<\/p>\n
The CR also boosts funding for destroyer construction by an unrequested $1.5 billion. The Navy typically buys two destroyers a year from GD Bath Iron Works in Maine and HII Ingalls Shipbuilding in Mississippi, and its long-term shipbuilding plan calls for orders of just under two per year through 2050.<\/p>\n
In the past, defense officials have expressed skepticism about whether the two yards could follow through if given an order for a third destroyer a year. "We don’t see the yards being able to produce three a year. We don’t see them being able to produce two a year. And that’s just data," Pentagon comptroller Mike McCord told USNI in 2024. "Everybody’s struggling with skilled labor. Everybody’s struggling with supply chains."<\/p>\n
Maine and Mississippi have politically powerful representation on the House and Senate Armed Services committees; Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) told Roll Call that the funding for an extra destroyer was justified, given the strong recent performance of Arleigh Burke-class destroyers in the Red Sea. <\/p>\n
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