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Saturday, January 28, 2012

Pentagon announces cuts to Austal-built vessels

USS Spearhead (JHSV 1)Two ship classes built at Austal USA and a spy plane built in Moss Point were among the defense programs dented Thursday by a new Pentagon spending plan.

U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta announced that the U.S. Navy would buy two fewer littoral combat ships and eight fewer joint high-speed vessels than it had planned to by 2017.

Workers at Austal’s Mobile River shipyard build both ships.

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