industrial base

The Navy this month opened a new defense manufacturing National Training Center to improve shipbuilding capability. The new 100,000 square-foot training center facility opened on Jan. 13 on the Institute […]

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 […]

The CEO of shipbuilder HII [HII] said the incoming Trump administration is likely more receptive to a plan developed by the Navy and industry to improve shipyard wages and quicken […]

Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro this week expressed optimism that Congress will introduce and pass a bill to support the domestic shipbuilding industry. “Take a look at what […]

The Australian government on Wednesday announced four domestic companies were awarded contracts as part of a qualification process so they will ultimately work in the U.S. and U.K. submarine supply […]

A Navy submarine official last week reiterated their “North Star” plans to increase submarine production to two Virginia-class attack submarines (SSN) and one Columbia-class ballistic missile submarine annually by 2028, […]

The CEO of the U.S. subsidiary of a Korean conglomerate buying Philly Shipyard recently said they want to return to the level of national prominence it had in the 1940s […]

The Navy awarded General Dynamics’ Electric Boat [GD] nearly $2 billion in four contracts related to Virginia-class attack submarine (SSN) industrial base support over the past week as the service […]

CHANTILLY, Va. – Two logistics officials from the Department of the Navy this week highlighted the growing importance of additive manufacturing (AM), or 3D printing, to managing contested logistics, especially […]

Navy officials last week argued the new public-private partnership to develop an Alabama site for more naval industrial base production is worth the risk and opens the door to other […]