05/19/2021
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"The Navy estimates that it could save up to $1.5 billion by exercising multiyear procurement authority for the DDG-51 program during the next 5 years for a nine ship buy over that period."
"Last year, your strategy to introduce competition into the DDG-51 program earlier than planned reaped significant savings for the taxpayer, and I applaud you for that effort."
"we need to sustain an absolute minimum procurement rate of two large surface combatants per year."
"I am concerned particularly, and I realize my time has expired, but particularly with the focus on the Asian Pacific, that we are not going to have enough ships to really do the job."