I appreciate your statement that, to make up for the loss of the strike capacity of the retiring SSGNs, the Navy requested funding of approximately $121 million in fiscal year 2014 to continue the design for the VPM that can launch more cruise missiles.
Blumenthal discusses funding for the Virginia Payload Module to replace retiring submarines' strike capacity.
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