Lawmakers want to know why the Navy has not implemented the majority of shipbuilding improvement recommendations provided by government auditors over the past decade, with the Senate Armed Services Committee's draft defense policy bill directing the Navy secretary to deliver a report on the subject by May 2026. Since 2015, the Government Accountability Office has supplied 90 recommendations to help the Navy manage its shipbuilding portfolio, but the sea service has implemented only about 30 of them, according to the...
