Navy creating private shipyard infrastructure investment plan

By Justin Katz / March 21, 2019 at 4:48 PM
The Navy is working with private shipbuilders to prepare industry for a 355-ship fleet, and intends to send Congress an infrastructure investment plan for those efforts with the fiscal year 2021 budget request. The "private shipyard optimization (PSO) initiatives" will aim to create "optimal placement of facilities and major equipment in each region," according to a new long-term maintenance and modernization of vessels plan . A private sector improvement (PSI) program will address workload stability, governance, contracting and process optimization...

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