News from 2024 ASIU: Navy may need to lean on private shipyards
As the Navy battles ongoing schedule delays, supply chain problems, and workforce challenges in its effort to produce more submarines, the service may need to turn to private repair shipyards to rebuild capacity. Currently, U.S. shipyards are up to three years behind on submarine orders for the Navy’s Columbia and Virginia class submarines. Rep Rob Wittman (R-VA) states that “private repair yards have a lot of capacity to do work in new construction while they are managing the repair work there.”