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Article: HAC-D Deletes FY '09 DDG-1000 Ship, But Doesn't Fully Back New Destroyer Plan.
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- Defense Daily
- Article date:
- July 31, 2008
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By Emelie Rutherford
The House Appropriations defense subcommittee's fiscal year 2009 defense bill includes no money for buying a DDG-1000 destroyer, yet its chairman expressed doubts yesterday about the sea service's new plan to stop building the destroyers and restart production of older DDG-51 combatants.
The $487.7 billion bill the HAC-D marked up yesterday also directs the Air Force to heed the Government Accountability Office's (GAO) recommendations for its tanker re-competition. It adds monies to the White House's budget request for the Army's Future Combat Systems (FCS) program and for continuing the Air Force's F-22 jet line, and reduces ...