Congress Is Fixing The Navy’s Sinking $21 Billion Shipyard Rescue Plan

The Navy’s massive $21 billion, twenty-year effort to modernize its four public shipyards is already years behind schedule. Congress, eager to help, is advancing several legislative approaches aimed at fully funding the Navy’s entire Shipyard Infrastructure Optimization Plan. While Congress works to deliver the equivalent of almost two $13 billion Gerald R. Ford class aircraft carriers in “no-strings-attached” public shipyard funding, congressional concerns have helped the Navy start a much-needed reboot of their wayward, 3-year old shipyard recapitalization effort.