The Navy, Congress and the shipbuilding industry have an "imperative" to challenge the accepted amount of time it takes to design and build new vessels, as well as maintain them, according to the service's top officer. Chief of Naval Operations Adm. John Richardson challenged attendees at a June 14 Congressional Shipbuilding Caucus breakfast on Capitol Hill to "question some of what we might call the 'true-isms' of shipbuilding." The event was closed to the press, but a video of Richardson's...
