Navy budget includes 9 ships, kills CG(X)

The Department of the Navy would build nine ships, buy 206 aircraft, postpone construction of the Marine Corps’ Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle and kill the advanced cruiser known as CG(X), according to the $179.1 billion spending plan it submitted Monday to Congress.

The budget proposal includes $160.6 billion in baseline funding — compared with the $156 billion the Navy requested last year — and $18.5 billion in funding for what the Pentagon calls “overseas contingency operations,” better known as the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.

Of that base budget, $45.1 billion would go to personnel costs; $46.2 billion would go for operations and maintenance; $46.6 billion would go to buying ships, aircraft and weapons; $17.7 billion would go for research and development; and $5 billion would go for infrastructure.

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