While the Navy is not planning to submit its annual 30-year shipbuilding plan to Congress until after the Quadrennial Defense Review is completed early next year, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Gary Roughead said he expects the future fleet will have at least 313 ships, the number of ships in the service's most recent plan.
"As an operator, the 313-ship fleet is what I see as the floor of what we need," he told an audience at the National Press Club during a Government Executive leadership breakfast on Tuesday.
The Navy earlier this year irked some lawmakers when service officials said they would not submit their annual shipbuilding plan, which is required by law, because the QDR would inform future plans and potentially render anything submitted earlier moot.
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