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Maritime Industrial Base Requires 25,000 New Trade Workers Annually, Navy Says

Maritime Industrial Base Requires 25,000 New Trade Workers Annually, Navy Says
Former Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Lisa Franchetti and Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps Gen. Christopher Mahoney and Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss) visited HII’s Ingalls Shipbuilding division on March 4, 2024. (Photo: HII)

A Navy official on Thursday said the shipbuilding industrial base needs to hire about 25,000 new trades workers per year over the next decade to meet the service’s new production and sustainment needs. Matt Evans, Deputy Program Manager for the Maritime Industrial Base under Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research, Development and Acquisition, said the 25,000 workers figure comes from models that take into account demographics, retirement age, percentage of the workforce that retires, natural attrition rates, hiring numbers,…

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