Budget includes $14.1B for ships

The Pentagon's 2011 budget will include $14.1 billion for shipbuilding, which will include two DDG-51 destroyers, two Littoral Combat Ships, two Joint High Speed Vessels, one Amphibious Assault Ship replacement, two Virginia-class submarines and one Mobile Landing Platform. The budget is due to be sent to Congress Feb. 1. (Source: Defense News, 01/28/10) Gulf Coast note: Northrop Grumman in Pascagoula, Miss., builds DDG-51s and amphibious assault ships; Austal USA in Mobile, Ala., is building JHSVs and competing to build more LCSs.