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President Trump’s nominee for Secretary of the Navy promised legislators Thursday he would evaluate contracts and improve the shipbuilding industrial base, while justifying his utility as an outsider businessman with no military or government experience. “Every shipbuilding delay, every maintenance backlog and every inefficiency is an opening for our adversaries to challenge our dominance. We cannot allow that to happen. Naval innovation must also extend beyond hulls and keels, strengthening relationships with the defense industrial base, incorporating lessons from recent…
