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Navy Studying Shipbuilding Industrial Base To Ensure Viability, Lower Costs

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Monday, March 8th, 2010

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By Emelie Rutherford The Navy is kicking off a shipbuilding industrial base study to review the capabilities and capacities at U.S. shipyards to better inform the service as it crafts its next budget. The forthcoming study is intended to "get to the heart" of the question of whether the nation's six major shipyards will remain viable amid concerns about the Navy potentially having to scale back shipbuilding plans because of possibly rising ship costs, Navy acquisition chief Sean Stackley told…

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