Navy Must Provide Clearer Parts Demand Signal to Submarine Builders, Maintainers - USNI News

Submarine parts suppliers are struggling to keep up with demand from the Navy, which is simultaneously building and maintaining a fleet of Virginia-class submarines while embarking on a massive program to build the new Columbia-class of ballistic-missile submarine.

“Traditionally, we have not always done as great a job as we could showing the supply base all of the demand we’re going to have out of them,” Geurts said to reporters while on a plane back from two days of meetings in Connecticut and Rhode Island with General Dynamics Electric Boat executives and representatives from New England maritime suppliers.