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GAO Finds Navy SIOP Dry Dock Costs Increased Over 400 Percent

Tuesday, May 17th, 2022

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GAO Finds Navy SIOP Dry Dock Costs Increased Over 400 Percent

USS Virginia (SSN-774) successfully exits dry dock at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, ME on June 22, 2021. Virginia was at the shipyard for a scheduled maintenance period. (Photo: U.S. Navy by Jim Cleveland/Released)

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) recently found the cost for the Navy to renovate its dry docks has grown by over 400 percent as part of a decades-long effort to reform and improve the four public shipyards. “The cost of the Navy’s dry dock projects in the SIOP has, according to Navy estimates, grown by over 400 percent since 2018,” GAO said in a report released May 10 for a Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) hearing with both the seapower…

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