Sec. 5121. Limitation on alteration of Navy fleet mix
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It is the sense of Congress that— the United States shipbuilding and supporting vendor base constitute a national security imperative that is unique and must be protected; a healthy and efficient industrial base continues to be a fundamental driver for achieving and sustaining a successful shipbuilding procurement strategy; without consistent and continuous commitment to steady and predictable acquisition profiles, the industrial base will struggle and some elements may not survive; and proposed reductions in the future-years defense program to the DDG–51 Destroyer procurement profile without a clear transition to procurement of the next Large Surface Combatant would adversely affect the shipbuilding industrial base and long-term strategic objectives of the Navy.
The Secretary of the Navy may not deviate from the 2016 Navy Force Structure Assessment to implement the results of a new force structure assessment or new annual long-range plan for construction of naval vessels that would reduce the requirement for Large Surface Combatants to fewer than 104 such vessels until the date on which the Secretary of the Navy submits to the congressional defense committees the certification under paragraph
(2)and the report under subsection (c). The certification referred to in paragraph
(1)is a certification, in writing, that each of the following conditions have been satisfied: The large surface combatant shipbuilding industrial base and supporting vendor base would not significantly deteriorate due to a reduced procurement profile. The Navy can mitigate the reduction in anti-air and ballistic missile defense capabilities due to having a reduced number of DDG–51 Destroyers with the advanced AN/SPY–6 radar in the next three decades. Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Navy shall submit to the congressional defense committees a report that includes— a description of likely detrimental impacts to the large surface combatant industrial base and the Navy’s plan to mitigate any such impacts if the fiscal year 2021 future-years defense program were implemented as proposed; a review of the benefits to the Navy fleet of the new AN/SPY–6 radar to be deployed aboard Flight III variant DDG–51 Destroyers, which are currently under construction, as well as an analysis of impacts to the fleet’s warfighting capabilities, should the number of such destroyers be reduced; and a plan to fully implement section 131 of the National Defense Authorization for Fiscal Year 2020 ( Public Law 116–92 ), including subsystem prototyping efforts and funding by fiscal year.
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Sec. 5121
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