The Department of the Navy proposed in January efficiency savings of more than $35 billion over five years. Cost savings come from reducing manpower ashore and reassigning 6,000 personnel to operational missions at sea; using multiyear procurement to save more than $1.3 billion on the purchase of new airborne surveillance, jamming and fighter aircraft; disestablishing several staffs (but not the associated platforms) of submarine squadrons, patrol aircraft squadrons and destroyer-squadrons, plus one carrier strike group staff; and disestablishing the headquarters of Second Fleet at Norfolk, Virginia.
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