13.01.2022, 10:24
Zitat:CNO Warns Columbia-class Sub Would Miss Delivery Under a Year-Long Continuing Resolutionhttps://news.usni.org/2022/01/12/cno-war...resolution
A year-long continuing resolution would force the Navy to miss deadlines on delivering the first Columbia class ballistic missile submarine, the service’s top officer told House appropriators Wednesday.
In prepared testimony on Columbia, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mike Gilday told the panel that “since the shipbuilding account is uniquely line-item appropriated, the CR provides insufficient funding for SSBN-826, our first Columbia-class ballistic missile submarine and number one modernization priority. … If the CR is extended over the full year, we expect construction delays to the Columbia-class program and costs to grow, increasing delivery risk to this critical system and threatening our ability to meet U.S. Strategic Command requirements. This is a program with zero margin for delays.” [...]
“In a flat account, we have to do something” and that means scaling back recruiting and delaying permanent change of station moves for starters to cover the pay raise, said Mike McCord, the Pentagon comptroller. He said holding defense spending to last year’s level would be $8 billion below what other congressional committees have approved for the Fiscal Year 2022 budget.
“We’ve been slowly boiling this pig” of using continuing resolutions over approving a new budget for 20 years. McCord said the impact of a year-long continuing resolution, which had never happened before, would translate to $24 billion not spent on recruiting and retention, needed research and development and new programs, training exercises and eroded away by inflation in continuing operations and programs.
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