============>The Navy has requested $125.2 billion for fiscal year 2015, about $400 million less than this year’s enacted budget. The U.S. Navy’s top leader Wednesday released details of a five-year navigation plan that calls for increasing the forward presence of ships to about 120 by 2020, up from this year’s average of 97. It also calls for a single “cybersafe” authority to protect the service’s networks. The plan, which is tied to the Navy’s 2015-2019 spending submission, would continue the Obama administration’s rebalance to the Pacific by expanding the number of ships in the region to 65 in 2019, an increase of 15 ships from this year, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Jonathan Greenert wrote in the four-page plan. The Navy’s “most capable platforms will operate in the Western Pacific,” including the newest DDG class of guided missile destroyers, joint high speed vessels, Poseidon surveillance planes, Growler fighter jets and other upgraded aircraft, such as the F-35C Joint Strike Fighter. An additional attack submarine will join three already in Guam in 2015. Rear Adm. William Lescher, the deputy assistant secretary of the Navy for budget, told reporters in March that the service was cutting expenses by halving the number of F-35Cs it would buy during the next five years from 69 to 36.
Posted on: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 20:39:17 +0000
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