Being more amenable to private shipyards could alleviate the Navy's backlog of deferred ship maintenance, a new RAND Corp. report suggests. "Our recommendation is that the Navy should be attentive to the long-term health of the companies and that it posture itself to give these companies a good idea of the demand that is likely in the future," Bradley Martin, a senior policy researcher at RAND, told Inside the Navy during a Sept. 28 interview. Martin is one of several...
