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CNO: Navy Improving Drydock Improvement Estimates After Underestimates

Wednesday, June 23rd, 2021

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CNO: Navy Improving Drydock Improvement Estimates After Underestimates

The Los Angeles-class attack submarine USS Miami enters dry dock to begin an overhaul at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in 2012. (U.S. Navy photo by Jim Cleveland/Released)

The Navy is working to enhance its estimates of public shipyard drydock improvement projects after the first project in New Hampshire came in over cost estimates, the chief of naval operations (CNO) told a Senate panel Tuesday. During a hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) welcomed the Navy starting work in the Shipyard Infrastructure Optimization Plan (SIOP) to upgrade the Navy’s four public shipyards, but raised concerns about “significant cost overruns in the multi-mission drydock…

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