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Navy/USMC

GAO Finds Navy Spent $1.5 Billion on Attack Subs Idling for 61 Months

Monday, November 19th, 2018

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GAO Finds Navy Spent $1.5 Billion on Attack Subs Idling for 61 Months

USS Boise (SSN-764) first arrives at Huntington Ingalls Industries’ Newport News Shipbuilding division to begin its extended engineering overhaul in June 2018. (Photo: HII)

A new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report found that since FY 2008 the Navy has spent over $1.5 billion on 14 attack submarines sitting idle waiting to enter a shipyard for maintenance and those delayed n finishing maintenance. At the same time, those submarines also spent a total combined 61 months sitting idle waiting to even enter the shipyards for maintenance.The GAO report, released Monday, resulted from a congressional direction to review the readiness of the Navy’s attack submarine fleet.…

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