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Navy Anticipating COVID-19 Will Impact Shipyards But No Effects Yet

Navy Anticipating COVID-19 Will Impact Shipyards But No Effects Yet
Undersecretary of the Navy Thomas Modly is briefed by Capt. Jeffrey Grimes, commanding officer of Naval Base Guam, during a visit on Sept. 30, 2018. (Photo: U.S. Navy)

Top Navy officials on Tuesday noted while they have not seen any shipyard delays due to the COVID-19 pandemic they are expecting and planning for future issues. When asked during a press briefing if there have been any naval production capacity effects from the pandemic yet, Acting Secretary of the Navy Thomas Modly said, “to date we haven’t seen any sort of perturbations in that right now but we are anticipating that there will be, and we’re looking at what…

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