SECNAV: Navy analyzing need for additional shipyards

By Nick Wilson / June 2, 2025 at 12:28 PM
The Navy is weighing the merits of establishing new shipyards as it works to accelerate warship production and maintenance, Navy Secretary John Phelan said today at the Special Competitive Studies Project AI Expo in Washington. “We have to get more investment in our shipyards. I think we're analyzing the need for potentially additional shipyards to add and so creating the proper incentives for private sector in order to do that,” Phelan said, indicating private investors have a growing role to...

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