Anyone who has ever tried to plow through Navy budget request documentation knows that it’s strong on patriotic sentiment but at times fuzzy on a lot of other things.
It seems that congressional conferees have been concerned that recent Navy budget requests underfunded critical weapon system programs that were using multiyear procurement authority. According to GAO (the U.S. Government Accountability Office), they also questioned whether the Navy’s budget requests in recent years for programs...
https://www.marinelog.com/shipbuilding/gao-report-looks-at-navy-multiyear-procurements/