Shipyards building the nation's multibillion-dollar warships have management deficiencies more serious and widespread than previously reported, according to the Defense Department. New DOD assessments reveal that General Dynamics' Bath Iron Works shipyard, which builds destroyers in Maine, and Huntington-Ingalls Industries' Ingalls shipyard, which builds destroyers and amphibious ships in Mississippi, are using business systems that break more than half the department's rules for delivering weapons on time and on budget. At issue are 32 earned value management rules that Pentagon...
