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Monday, February 13, 2012

Budget request includes funds for 10 new ships

Virginia-classAt least $12.8 billion in shipbuilding funds will be part of the Obama administration’s fiscal 2013 defense budget, according to a Pentagon document prepared for Monday’s news briefings and obtained by Defense News.

That’s enough for 10 new warships, and includes money to start construction on a new aircraft carrier and refuel another.

The request includes:

• Funding to begin construction of John F. Kennedy, the second CVN 78 Ford-class aircraft carrier.

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