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US Navy sees fleet target of about 300 ships

Navy is nearly finished with a review that will recommend a total fleet of around 300 ships, down cheap canada goose uk https://www.canadagooseoutletcanada.ca from the current target of 313 ships, the Navy top uniformed officer said on Friday.

Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Jonathan buy canada goose jacket Greenert said the Navy expected to deliver the review to Canada Goose online Navy Secretary Ray Mabus as early as next week.

He said the review was intended to translate the Pentagon new military Canada Goose Online strategy into concrete requirements for the number of ships, planes and people the Navy needs to carry out its missions by 2020.

Navy leaders canada goose have called for a 313 ship Navy canada goose uk outlet since a Pentagon wide review of programs conducted in 2006, Canada Goose Coats On Sale but the revamped military strategy and tighter canada goose uk black friday defense budgets have reduced the target.

The Navy currently has 285 ships in its fleet, but it plans to build 55 new lighter, more agile coastal Canada Goose Jackets warships in coming years to help meet mission needs. Navy on Friday announced that it had modified its canada goose factory sale existing block buy contracts with Lockheed Martin Corp and Australia Austal to add funding for two new canada goose coats on sale ships from each of the companies in fiscal 2012.

The Navy said it was adding $715 million to its fixed canada goose black friday sale price, incentive fee contract with Lockheed Martin for two ships in fiscal 2012, which ends Sept. 30, and $691.6 million to a similar contract with canada goose uk shop Austal, also for two ships.

The canada goose clearance funding will pay for the ninth through 12th ships Canada Goose Outlet in the Navy new class of coastal warships.

Navy is successfully driving down costs in the Littoral Combat Ship program, said Navy Rear Admiral James Murdoch, buy canada goose jacket cheap program executive officer for Littoral Combat canada goose outlet Ships, adding that cost cutting measures would allow the Navy to proceed with its plans to buy uk canada goose outlet a total of 55 LCS ships in coming years.

He said concerted efforts canada goose clearance sale to stabilize design, improve production planning, invest in shipbuilder improvements and leverage long term vendor agreements, Canada Goose Parka coupled with the competitive long term contract, had made the program more affordable.

Greenert said the force structure review cheap Canada Goose would be sent to Defense Secretary Leon Panetta for approval, and then canadian goose jacket presented to congressional committees before it is publicly released.

Bob Nugent, vice president canada goose store of AMI International, said the new 300 ship goal represented a compromise between increasingly constrained Pentagon budgets and pressure from lawmakers uk canada goose to increase the size canada goose coats of the fleet.

He said any attempt by the Navy to adopt a target below 300 ships would Canada Goose sale likely be met with howls of protest from Congress.

Lawmakers have repeatedly chided Navy officials in recent weeks about short changing shipbuilding at a time when naval forces are in high demand and the Pentagon is pivoting to focus more on the Asia Pacific region.

Mabus told the Senate Armed Services Committee on Thursday that he felt confident that a fleet of around 300 ships would allow the Navy to fulfill its missions.