Sec. 1025. Sense of Congress on actions necessary to achieve a 355-ship Navy
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It is the sense of Congress that to achieve the national policy of the United States to have available, as soon as practicable, not fewer than 355 battle force ships— the Navy must be adequately resourced to increase the size of the Navy in accordance with the national policy, which includes the associated ships, aircraft, personnel, sustainment, and munitions; across fiscal years 2021 through 2025, the Navy should start construction on not fewer than— 12 Arleigh Burke-class destroyers; 10 Virginia-class submarines; 2 Columbia-class submarines; 3 San Antonio-class amphibious ships; 1 LHA-class amphibious ship; 6 John Lewis-class fleet oilers; and 5 guided missile frigates; new guided missile frigate construction should increase to a rate of between two and four ships per year once design maturity and construction readiness permit; the Columbia-class submarine program should be funded with additions to the Navy budget significantly above the historical average, given the critical single national mission that these vessels will perform and the high priority of the shipbuilding budget for implementing the National Defense Strategy; stable shipbuilding rates of construction should be maintained for each vessel class, utilizing multi-year or block buy contract authorities when appropriate, until a deliberate transition plan is identified; and prototyping of potential new shipboard subsystems should be accelerated to build knowledge systematically, and, to the maximum extent practicable, shipbuilding prototyping should occur at the subsystem-level in advance of ship design.