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Harker: Navy Could Accelerate Shipyard Infrastructure Plan If Given More Funds

Friday, April 30th, 2021

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Harker: Navy Could Accelerate Shipyard Infrastructure Plan If Given More Funds

Norfolk Naval Shipyard in Portsmouth, Va. (Photo: GAO)

The Navy’s top official said the service would welcome the chance to renew the it’s four public shipyards faster than planned under a current 20-year plan if given more funding. “I believe that the Shipyard Infrastructure Optimization Plan (SIOP) - right now it’s a 20-year plan that’s upward of $20 billion - is something that we could look at accelerating if additional funds were available,” Acting Secretary of the Navy Thomas Harker said during testimony before the House Appropriations Committee’s…

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