Navy unmanned program manager 'optimistic' on funding

摘要

Despite an abrupt reversal on plans to retire the aircraft carrier Harry Truman (CVN-75), the program manager respon sible for a large portfolio targeted for investment in lieu of the ship's midlife refueling said he's "optimistic" the Navy will not cut his funding. "I'm optimistic that we have broad Navy support both from the requirements side of the house [and] the resourcing side of the house," Capt. Pete Small, program manager for unmanned maritime systems, told attendees yesterday at the Sea Air Space Symposium in National Harbor, MD. "I'm optimistic that whatever happens with [the president's fiscal year 2020 budget request], all of the efforts that I described are going to continue into the future. Exactly to what scale in PB-20 is part of the process," he continued.