The Navy submitted a plan today for reversing the decline in the size of the U.S. fleet, expanding from 281 ships this year to 313 within several years, though the number of aircraft carriers would drop by one, to 11.
"We need to stop getting smaller," Adm. Mike Mullen, the chief of naval operations, told a Pentagon news conference.
The Navy fleet has been shrinking for many years, and Mullen, who took over as chief last July, said that trend must be reversed if the service is to meet the demands of the global war on terrorism and other missions.
The plan submitted to Congress would require raising the Navy shipbuilding budget from $9.5 billion proposed in the 2007 budget that President Bush sent to Congress on Monday to an average of about $13.5 billion a year starting in 2008.
His plans calls for building 51 ships at a combined cost of $66.3 billion over the coming five years.
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