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Stop-gap budget will delay maintenance for 11 Navy ships, Pentagon says

By Travis J. Tritten
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Stop-gap budget will delay maintenance for 11 Navy ships, Pentagon says

The Navy will delay maintenance on 11 ships due to the three-month stopgap budget passed by Congress last week, according to a Pentagon assessment provided to Congress Monday.

The delays caused by the continuing resolution, or CR, will have a cascading effect on Navy ship maintenance over the next year and could affect ship repair periods into fiscal 2019, the Pentagon said in the report to the Senate Armed Services Committee on Monday.

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