On the recordJuly 14, 2017
I appreciate the leadership of the Armed Services Committee in the Seapower Subcommittee on both sides of the aisle to accept this amendment and its important modifications to the underlying bill provision limiting the availability of funds for prior fiscal year DDG-51 Arleigh Burke class destroyers. My revised amendment, Mr. Chair, is agreed to by the committee and, importantly, removes the additional, or third, fiscal year 2016 DDG-51 ship from the provision's proposed requirements. Additionally, sir, and again, as agreed to by the committee, it states the sense of Congress that the Navy should bear the majority of the share-line risk for the fiscal year 2017 DDG-51 Flight III destroyer contract, which will represent the first ships to integrate the Air and Missile Defense Radar, which is 30 times more effective and better than the legacy radar system.
