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The Navy is 100% wrong,\u201d Rep. Rob Wittman, R-Va., told reporters May 15 regarding the FY25 National Defense Authorization Act language released this week in which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/congress\/budget\/2024\/05\/13\/house-armed-services-committee-adds-second-virginia-submarine-in-fy25\/\">the committee added money to incrementally fund the purchase of a second attack sub<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Navy had planned to continue a cadence of buying two submarines per year, but it walked back those plans in its latest budget request, released earlier in the year. Now the service is seeking a single submarine in FY25, citing a lack of industrial base capacity to deliver two on time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A few hours before Wittman\u2019s media engagement, Bill LaPlante, the undersecretary of defense for acquisition and sustainment, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.appropriations.senate.gov\/hearings\/a-review-of-select-department-of-defense-acquisition-programs\">told the Senate Appropriations Committee\u2019s defense panel<\/a> that the Pentagon stands by the Navy\u2019s decision to request one submarine, supplement it with $3.9 billion to shore up the industrial base, and seek $2.4 billion in advance procurement funds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe department had the difficult choice of either adding to the backlog that was there, or take that money and invest it in increased capacity,\u201d LaPlante said, adding that the Pentagon chose to increase capacity for the long term.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSecretary LaPlante is wrong. He\u2019s 100% wrong. We are going to build two a year. He can talk to all the appropriators he wants; we\u2019re going to authorize two per year. We know what happens with the industry if you go to one per year,\u201d Wittman told Defense News.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the one hand, the Navy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/naval\/2024\/05\/09\/us-navys-submarine-fleet-is-too-small-heres-how-selling-some-may-help\/\" target=\"_blank\">wants a submarine fleet<\/a> to give the U.S. a \u201ctactical advantage\u201d against adversaries, said Wittman, who is vice chair of the House Armed Services Committee. But then the service seeks a single submarine per year, he added, saying it doesn\u2019t believe industry can build two annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWell you know what? If you don\u2019t send a demand signal to the industry, it\u2019s a self-fulfilling prophecy,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He acknowledged the difficulty in recruiting and training a workforce for submarine construction, but also said he has seen progress at both General Dynamics\u2019 Electric Boat and HII\u2019s Newport News Shipbuilding in growing their respective workforces to ramp up production rates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wittman said asking for a single boat in FY25 would force some companies to lay off the very workers they need to expand the industrial base capacity in support of the Navy\u2019s needs. He also pointed to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/naval\/2024\/05\/09\/what-has-the-aukus-alliance-accomplished-in-the-last-year\/\" target=\"_blank\">upcoming sale of three to five Virginia-class subs<\/a> to Australia through the AUKUS trilateral agreement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He called the Navy\u2019s mitigation strategy \u201cbaloney,\u201d noting that buying long-lead materials through increased advance procurement funding won\u2019t help the supply chain in the same way that simply buying a second submarine would.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And there\u2019s a sense of urgency in building up the naval force, according to Wittman, who cited <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/pentagon\/2024\/05\/07\/how-dc-became-obsessed-with-a-potential-2027-chinese-invasion-of-taiwan\/\" target=\"_blank\">China\u2019s threats to unify itself with Taiwan by force if necessary<\/a>. Beijing considers the island a rogue province.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Navy similarly asked to buy one submarine in FY21. That year, both the authorizers in their NDAA and the appropriators in their defense spending bill added in the second submarine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSecretary LaPlante is wrong. Secretary [of the Navy Carlos] Del Toro is wrong. We are going to do two submarines, period. 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