Rep. Rob Wittman, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee’s Seapower and Projection Forces Subcommittee, discusses the omnibus spending bill’s implications for aircraft-carrier and Columbia-class submarine procurement, shipbuilding and Pentagon spending, says his subcommittee will include language in the 2019 National Defense Authorization Act to ensure a two-ship carrier buy, identifies critical elements for ensuring “certainty and predictability” in US Navy shipbuilding, and more in a wide-ranging, March 22, 2018, interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian conducted at the Aircraft Carrier Industrial Base Coalition Congressional Breakfast in northern Virginia.
