
The Navy’s top acquisition official said the Navy recently infused about $600 million into the shipbuilding industrial base by reducing withholds and retainers to help it deal with COVID-19 pandemic issues. “Just in the NAVSEA programs we were immediately able to infuse about $600 million of funds that we had in withholds or retainers or whatnot. And able to do that without increasing any risk to the system,” Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research, Development and Acquisition James Geurts…