Sec. 127. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON AIRCRAFT CARRIER PROCUREMENT SCHEDULES

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## SEC. 127 SENSE OF CONGRESS ON AIRCRAFT CARRIER PROCUREMENT SCHEDULES ###

(a)Findings Congress finds the following: ####

(1)In the Congressional Budget Office report titled “An Analysis of the Navy’s Fiscal Year 2016 Shipbuilding Plan”, the Office stated as follows: “To prevent the carrier force from declining to 10 ships in the 2040s, 1 short of its inventory goal of 11, the Navy could accelerate purchases after 2018 to 1 every four years, rather than 1 every five years”. ####

(2)In a report submitted to Congress on March 17, 2015, the Secretary of the Navy indicated the Department of the Navy has a requirement of 11 aircraft carriers. ###

(b)Sense of Congress It is the sense of Congress that— ####

(1)the plan of the Department of the Navy to schedule the procurement of one aircraft carrier every five years will reduce the overall aircraft carrier inventory to 10 aircraft carriers, a level insufficient to meet peacetime and war plan requirements; and ####

(2)to accommodate the required aircraft carrier force structure, the Department of the Navy should— #####

(A)begin to program construction for the next aircraft carrier to be built after the U.S.S. Enterprise (CVN-80) in fiscal year 2022; and #####

(B)program the required advance procurement activities to accommodate the construction of such carrier.