Lobbying group seeks lawmakers' support for Aircraft carriers
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The Northrop Grumman Corporation unit Newport News shipbuilding in Virginia enjoys a monopoly in building Navy aircraft carriers, but politically the company needs support from lawmakers in the other 49 states to gain funding for carriers in the defense budget. The solution is to form a new lobbying group, in which leaders of companies, across the nation that supply the carriers program, can buttonhole senators and representatives of their respective states to seek federal money for carriers in the defense budget.
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Northrop Grumman leader
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The view of the next-generation DD(X) destroyer that cutting-edge ship is expected to cost more than the $1.2 billion to $1.4 billion apiece that the Navy estimates and that DD(X) is not required, is considered to be wrong. A study conducted reveals that the DD(X) might cost closer to $2.18 billion each based on its displacement of 12,135 tons or 14,000 tons fully loaded.
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