Echoing Senate criticisms, House lawmakers pressing Navy on ship subsystem failures

By Justin Katz / July 1, 2020 at 12:54 PM
A House panel wants the Navy to detail how many times it has accepted a ship in the past two decades before completing work on major subsystems and explain the circumstances that led to the acceptance decision. The criticism of the Navy's shipbuilding process comes a day after Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Jim Inhofe (R-OK) and Ranking Member Jack Reed (D-RI) took aim at the service for similar issues in an article published in Proceedings . The Senate is...

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