
The nation’s shipyards and their supply chains could build three Virginia-class nuclear attack submarines annually but to create the necessary capacity will require the government to commit to such a plan, the head of shipbuilder Huntington Ingalls Industries [HII] said on Thursday. “Our supply chain in support of all of shipbuilding but in particular our nuclear enterprise, it’s very capable but it’s also kind of thin and so you really need to have a persistent, consistent, sustainable set of messaging…