Navy’s submarine builders ‘over cost’, ‘under performing’: Top admiral
Gilday's blunt remarks were in response to lawmaker questions about the submarine Boise's years-long wait to dive again.
By JUSTIN KATZ
on May 12, 2022 at 2:00 PM
UPDATE 5/12/2022 at 6:49 p.m. ET: This report has been updated to include a statement from HII. It was also updated to reflect the Navy came to a deal with HII to work on the Boise, not Electric Boat.
WASHINGTON: Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Michael Gilday had blunt words today for two powerhouse companies that build submarines for the Navy: We need your shipyards, but not the problems that come with them.
“We know that we don’t have the capacity in our public shipyards to handle all of that [submarine] maintenance. We need Electric Boat and we need Huntington Ingalls to be able to do that work,” said Gilday. “They are under performing. They are over cost and way over schedule.”
Gilday was testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee about the Navy’s fiscal 2023 budget request alongside Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro and Marine Corps Commandant Gen. David Berger. His comments were in response to a question from Sen. Mike Rounds, R-S.D., who sought the admiral’s opinions on how the Navy weighs the choice of scrapping a submarine against bringing it into maintenance on a very delayed schedule.
https://breakingdefense.com/2022/05/navys-submarine-builders-over-cost-under-performing-top-admiral/
