Delays and Cost Overruns Plague Navy Shipyards

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Delays and Cost Overruns Plague Navy Shipyards    
 

Article from For Liberty by Norm Leahy.

The U.S. Navy has a maintenance problem, according to the Government Accountability Office. Lengthy and costly delays are hurting Navy readiness, with “shipyards averag[ing] 113 days late for aircraft carriers and 225 days late for submarines.”

GAO investigators found that shipyards were chronically understaffed, which was the main culprit behind “maintenance delays for aircraft carriers and submarines.”

There was also a rise in what the GAO called “unplanned work—work identified after finalizing maintenance plans—contributed to more than 4,100 days of maintenance delays.”

https://forliberty.news/2020/08/31/delays-cost-overruns-plague-navy-shipyards-rs-nl/