Software company Govini on Wednesday said it has been tapped by the Navy to help identify issues across parts of the nuclear submarine industrial base.
The company said this means the Navy will deploy their flagship Ark product “to continuously identify vulnerabilities across its industrial base using factors such as financial health, production capacity, and foreign influence.”
The company specified this effort covers “revitalization of the industrial base of the sea-based leg of the nuclear triad,” meaning nuclear-armed ballistic missile submarines (SSBNs). It is focused on workflows to support missile and warhead technologies.
Navy officials in April told lawmakers the first in a new class of SSBNs, the future USS District of Columbia (SSBN-826), is running 12 to 18 months late while it is currently over 50 percent complete. The second new SSBN, the future USS Wisconsin (SSBN-827), is set to be delivered in 2032, 80 months after start of construction (Defense Daily, April 14).
At the time, officials explained the delays were due to shipbuilder performance, supply chain problems, testing and complexity in first-in-class boat construction. Navy officials said the current level of submarine industrial base investments have so far largely improved industrial base hiring, increasing vendor capacity in some market spaces and working through more strategic outsourcing and adding manufacturing technology.
Govini argued that with their information their Ark software product finds will help the Navy make better informed decisions based on capacity, dynamics and risk indicators to field missile and nuclear warhead technologies faster.
The Navy can then make better informed decisions based on capacity, dynamics, and risk indicators to field missile and warhead technologies faster.
“As America’s adversaries aggressively modernize their forces, Govini stands with the U.S. Navy to ensure our readiness. We’re proud to empower the stewards of our nation’s strategic deterrence with unprecedented visibility into their industrial base and supply chains. With AI-powered Applications and proprietary data, Ark gives the Navy the ability to make production and sustainment decisions with unmatched speed and precision,” Govini CEO Tara Murphy Dougherty said in a statement.