{"id":24521,"date":"2019-12-09T16:06:15","date_gmt":"2019-12-09T16:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2019\/12\/09\/acting-us-navy-secretary-deliver-me-a-355-ship-fleet-by-2030\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T22:06:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T22:06:00","slug":"acting-us-navy-secretary-deliver-me-a-355-ship-fleet-by-2030","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/naval\/2019\/12\/09\/acting-us-navy-secretary-deliver-me-a-355-ship-fleet-by-2030\/","title":{"rendered":"Acting US Navy secretary: Deliver me a 355-ship fleet by 2030"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WASHINGTON \u2014 Acting U.S. Navy Secretary Thomas Modly in public comments and in a directive to the force has mandated that the service find a path to quickly get to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/naval\/2019\/03\/12\/the-us-navy-will-hit-a-milestone-ship-count-in-2020-pours-money-into-sailors-subs-and-unmanned-tech\/\" target=_blank>355 ships<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite some soft-pedaling from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/digital-show-dailies\/navy-league\/2019\/05\/06\/the-navys-top-officer-wants-you-to-stop-counting-his-ships\/\" target=\"_blank\">Navy leadership on the 355-ship <\/a>goal, Modly has made it clear that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/smr\/federal-budget\/2018\/02\/13\/us-navy-to-add-46-ships-in-five-years-but-355-ships-is-well-over-the-horizon\/\" target=\"_blank\">such an inventory <\/a>is national policy and that he wants leadership to get behind it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201c[Three hundred and fifty-five ships] is stated as national policy,\u201d Modly told an audience at the USNI Defense Forum on Dec. 5. \u201cIt was also the president\u2019s goal during the election. We have a goal of 355, we don\u2019t have a plan for 355. We need to have a plan, and if it\u2019s not 355, what\u2019s it going to be and what\u2019s it going to look like?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a memo released Thursday to the force, Modly said he wanted an actionable plan by the end of the 2020s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the memo, Modly called for the services to develop \u201can integrated plan to achieve \u2026 355 ships (or more) unmanned underwater vehicles, and unmanned surface vehicles for greater naval power within 10 years.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The push toward the 355-ship fleet, which kicked off after a 2016 force-structure assessment, has been on shaky ground of late, with former Navy Secretary Richard Spencer calling it \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/news.usni.org\/2019\/10\/28\/admiral-navy-can-afford-to-field-a-310-ship-fleet-not-355\">aspirational<\/a>.\u201d Last year, the service\u2019s former top requirements officer<a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/digital-show-dailies\/navy-league\/2018\/04\/09\/the-navy-once-again-soft-pedals-its-own-355-ship-count-assessment\/\" target=_blank> told an audience <\/a>at the Navy\u2019s largest annual conference that people should focus more on capabilities and less on the number.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The issue is that the Navy is required by law to pursue a 355-ship Navy, something that was the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/congress\/2017\/12\/14\/trump-just-made-355-ships-national-policy\/\">focus of House and Senate lawmakers<\/a> early on in the Trump administration. The fleet currently stands at 292 ships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During his comments at the USNI Defense Forum, Modly said that if the Navy must fight the other services for money to achieve that goal, then that\u2019s what it should do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe ought to be lobbying for that and making a case for it and arguing in the halls of the Pentagon for a bigger share of the budget if that\u2019s what is required,\u201d Modly said. \u201cBut we have to come to a very clear determination as to what [355 ships] means, and all the equipment we need to support that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHow many more hypersonics are we going to need? Where are we going to put them? These are long-term investments that we will have to make, but we have to get our story straight first. 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