![]() For rotary wing aircraft, the Navy is requesting 10 CH-53K helicopters and 26 TH-73A training aircraft. Your Navy Marine Corps team though will be outfitted to go anywhere in the world, whether that’s near there or the South China Sea.”įor aviation, the service is seeking $16.8 billion to procure 13 F-35Cs, 15 F-35Bs, five E-2D Advanced Hawkeyes and five KC-130Js for the Marine Corps. ![]() “Now, they have nuclear weapons and that’s concerning, but they are not a near peer competitor. This budget gets after a near peer competitor, of which Russia is not,” he said. “For your Navy-Marine Corps team, I would suggest that it’s agnostic. He added that the drive train fix on the Freedom-class isn’t an “exorbitant” amount of money, but “when you target your savings at one variant, there’s saving programmatically” instead of having to sustain two different variants.Īsked if there were any last minute changes to the budget to respond to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Gumbleton said the budget is “agnostic.” The ASW mission module has had “huge challenges” and is “not going to work,” Gumbleton said. The admiral also said the Navy expects to save $3.6 billion in future years by retiring all 24 ships - if Congress allows it. John Gumbleton, the deputy assistant Navy secretary for budget, said the LCS retirements were mostly driven by Freedom-class vessels, as well as a decision to not pursue the anti-submarine warfare mission module package any longer. That means that we are mining what we do have, to be the most capable and ready fleet and force against what our pacing threat is.”īerger said the administration generally remains committed to achieving a 355-ship fleet, although the Navy’s fleet as of March 2022 stands at 298 battle force ships. “We haven’t budgeted for anything that we sustain. “What we’ve done is made some decisions that are helping us to support what is sustainable in the context of our fleet,” Meredith Berger, the official performing the duties of the Navy under secretary, told reporters today. What is certain to grab the attention of lawmakers is the request to decommission 24 vessels, including nine Littoral Combat Ships, five cruisers, four dock landing ships, two submarines, two fleet oilers and two expeditionary transfer docks. The budget also seeks incremental funding for the Columbia-class submarine and Ford-class aircraft carriers. Rounding off the shipbuilding request are one fleet replenishment oiler and a towing and salvage vessel, bringing the total to nine battle force ships. (The Pentagon released only a limited number of documents routinely associated with the budget, meaning detailed cost estimates for certain accounts and programs has not yet been made public.)ĭespite speculation by some analysts that they may end up as bill-payers, the budget also includes one America-class amphibious assault ship and one San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock. The service’s shipbuilding request includes two Virginia-class submarines, two Arleigh Burke-class destroyers and one Constellation-class guided missile frigate. The new president’s budget request, previewed today by Pentagon officials, includes $230.8 billion for the Department of the Navy, split $180.5 billion to $50.3 billion between the Navy and Marine Corps. WASHINGTON: The Navy’s fiscal 2023 budget request requests funding for nine new ships, but also asks to decommission 24 ships, a net loss of 15 hulls that is sure to cause trouble for service brass when they testify before lawmakers eager to grow, not shrink, the Navy’s fleet size. Updated Maat 4:22 pm to clarify that the Navy will save $3.6 billion if it is able to decommission all 24 ships it requests in the fiscal 2023 budget. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Maxwell Higgins) ![]() Truman Carrier Strike Group in the Atlantic Ocean, April 2019.
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