Marines’ 2023 wish list includes funding a ship the Navy plans to cancel – By Megan Eckstein (Defense News) / April 1, 2022
WASHINGTON — At the top of the U.S. Marine Corps’ 2023 spending wish list is funding for an amphibious warship the U.S. Navy doesn’t plan to buy.
The Navy announced in its March 28 fiscal 2023 budget request rollout that it would buy one last amphibious transport dock, LPD-32, and then end the production line.
The Marines’ number-one item in the so-called unfunded priorities list is $250 million in advanced procurement funding for LPD-33.
Advanced procurement funding allows the contractor, in this case Ingalls Shipbuilding, to start buying materials and ship systems that take longer to deliver, with the expectation that the rest of the ship’s cost would be funded in a future year.
