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Saturday, September 12, 2009

LCS funding cut, $1.7 billion in extra destroyer money allocated by Senate panel

USS Independence (LCS-@)The Senate Appropriations Committee has voted to chop funding for the littoral combat ship program next year while giving the Navy $1.7 billion for a destroyer that it didn't request under a defense spending bill approved Thursday.

The bill, approved by the committee Thursday on a 30-0 vote, would give the Pentagon about $1.1 billion to order two littoral combat ships--instead of the three requested by Navy brass-- in fiscal 2010, which begins next month.

The bill must still be approved by the full Senate and then reconciled with a House measure that furnishes enough money for four LCS buys next year.

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