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Without a start date for CVN 82, USS William J. Clinton, thousands of suppliers are worried their production lines will go ...
Navy Secretary John Phelan visited the Newport News and Norfolk shipyards on Wednesday as part of a national listening tour ...
The new policy aims to revitalize a U.S. shipbuilding industry that has fallen well behind production levels of its rivals ...
The new fees are aimed at countering China’s dominance of the shipbuilding industry, but critics say they will simply raise ...
All Navy shipbuilding contracts are under review, according to John Phelan, the new Navy secretary, who said Wednesday that ...
The USS George Washington, a Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, completed an extensive Refueling and Complex ...
China’s shipbuilding supremacy also has military implications. Even as relations with Beijing deteriorated, the U.S. Navy continued to purchase tankers and dry cargo carriers from Chinese ...
However, some lawmakers voiced concerns that diverting the only U.S. carrier in the Pacific to the Middle East creates a vulnerability—one that is worsened by shipbuilding delays for the CVN-82 ...
Every single Navy shipbuilding program is currently behind schedule, including critical nuclear-powered submarines and its next aircraft carrier. Matthew Paxton, the Shipbuilders Council of ...
The lead ship in the Columbia class of nuclear submarines is facing delivery delays of up to 18 months, and “critical path challenges” continue to jeopardize carrier delivery schedules, Navy officials ...