The Navy's Ship to Shore Connector program could see a second shipbuilder added if Congress were to increase the Navy's procurement request to 10 vessels per year. A Government Accountability Office report published last month said the program office had plans to introduce a second source to create competition; however, "officials stated that the currently anticipated quantities of fewer than 10 craft per year make this infeasible because of the perceived need for an annual economic order quantity of five."...
