This story has been modified: see clarification below. With major shipbuilding budget cuts pending, the Navy is urging the nation's shipbuilders to reshape the shipbuilding industry, according to Vice Adm. Phillip Balisle. Balisle is head of Naval Sea Systems Command, which oversees shipbuilding programs worth billions of dollars. Today, he called for a reshaping of the shipbuilding industrial base during a panel discussion at the Surface Navy Association's annual conference in Arlington, VA. "As we are bringing to bear a...
