Subject: Re: Largest Navy ship order since 1945
...is dropping.

Hallelujah!

How much of that order is for things the Navy actually needs?

Don’t get me started on procurement policies- I think I pretty much agree with you there.

That “Golden Fleet” program seems more and more like a Trump vanity project and it takes a large hunk of that budget. But does the Navy need it, and is it simply “the concept of a plan”?

Seeking to work with civilian shipbuilders is good, but I fear Trump is insinuating himself into the process of ship design, and what we end up with could be worse than what we saw with some of the littoral ship programs and even worse than what happened with the first in class USS Ford.

Mara Lago or Trump Tower- the maritime edition.