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HASC Leaders Press Navy For Details And Fixing Plans To HII-NNS Faulty Welds

Monday, October 7th, 2024

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HASC Leaders Press Navy For Details And Fixing Plans To HII-NNS Faulty Welds

A forward section of the future USS John F. Kennedy’s main deck is lifted into place at Huntington Ingalls Industry’s Newport News Shipbuilding. (Photo: John Walen/HII).

Leaders in the House Armed Services Committee (HASC) and its seapower subcommittee on Oct. 3 sent a letter to Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro with several pointed questions on how much the Navy knows about and plans to deal with faulty welds on Navy ships performed by HII [HII] and recovery plans. Last month, HII’s Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS) publicly revealed it told the government about these purposeful but seemingly not malicious faulty welds on aircraft arrears and…

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