The Navy's fiscal year 2027 budget request does not invest sufficiently in small unmanned surface vessels and other uncrewed platforms, according to Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Roger Wicker (R-MS), who suggested the department's rhetoric may be out of sync with its funding proposal. “The FY-27 shipbuilding plan said the Navy is ‘aggressively pursuing’ these unmanned systems and has ‘committed to build at scale.’ However, the budget has no funding for small USVs and procures between 10 and 12 [medium]...