Navy outlines more than $15B in annual shipbuilding

The U.S. Navy is proposing to spend an average of $15.5 billion every year on new ship construction to boost its naval fleet from 285 ships now to 304 by fiscal 2011 -- although officials are requesting only $11.2 billion for seven new ships in FY '07. Tina Jonas, the Defense Department's chief...

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