The Ensuring Naval Readiness Act

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The Ensuring Naval Readiness Act
By Jihoon Yu
March 06, 2025
U.S. Navy

The Ensuring Naval Readiness Act: A New Era in U.S.-South Korea Naval and MRO Cooperation
The "Ensuring Naval Readiness Act", introduced in the U.S. Congress on February 5, 2025, marks a significant shift in U.S. naval procurement strategy. The bill proposes allowing U.S. Navy vessels to be constructed in the shipyards of trusted allies, including NATO member states and Indo-Pacific treaty partners such as South Korea and Japan. This represents a departure from the long-standing "Build American" doctrine, responding to growing inefficiencies in U.S. shipbuilding and the urgent need to modernize the Navy amid rising geopolitical tensions.

At the same time, the potential for U.S.-South Korea naval cooperation in maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) services is increasing, creating an opportunity to generate greater synergy with the U.S. Navy’s evolving shipbuilding strategy. As the U.S. explores foreign shipbuilding partnerships, integrating South Korea’s capabilities in naval vessel maintenance and sustainment could significantly enhance operational efficiency, reduce fleet downtime, and improve overall readiness. The intersection of these two policy shifts—leveraging allied shipyards for construction and strengthening prospects for deeper MRO collaboration—has the potential to elevate South Korea’s strategic role in U.S. naval operations, ensuring a more integrated and resilient fleet management system in the Indo-Pacific. However, this transformation also raises concerns regarding technological security, industrial capacity, and geopolitical implications, particularly in relation to China.


Addressing U.S. Naval Shipbuilding Constraints
The bill acknowledges the pressing challenges facing the U.S. shipbuilding industry, which is struggling to meet the Navy’s force expansion goals. With a current fleet of 291 ships, the U.S. Navy remains well below the 355-ship target set in its 2016 Force Structure Assessment. Chronic delays, cost overruns, and workforce shortages in American shipyards have heightened concerns over the Navy’s ability to maintain global readiness and power projection.

https://www.realcleardefense.com/articles/2025/03/06/the_ensuring_naval_readiness_act_1095774.html

[DefiantMassRINO]

So, the US Navy will offshore its shipbuilding that could potentially make it easier for adversaries to steal technology and sabotage vessel construction.

The US Navy is surrendering to Globalists and Globalism.  Pathetic.  The Chi-coms are winning.

Where is the fight and can-do attitude in this country?  Everyone in leadership stops trying when things become more difficult.

[Smokin Joe]

So, the US Navy will offshore its shipbuilding that could potentially make it easier for adversaries to steal technology and sabotage vessel construction.

The US Navy is surrendering to Globalists and Globalism.  Pathetic.  The Chi-coms are winning.

Where is the fight and can-do attitude in this country?  Everyone in leadership stops trying when things become more difficult.

Remember when we had shop classes? When kids got to build things with their own hands?
Well, the skills you need to actually assemble an aircraft carrier aren't on your smartphone.
Girls actually learned how to cook and sew and do neat stuff like that, too (guys could if they wanted to).

Sure, some fabrication is automated, but I'm pretty sure shipbuilding takes actual hands-on skills. No one wants to get dirty or sweat at work.

[DefiantMassRINO]

This is the end-game of the Chi-com Globalist Free Trade Communist conspiracy - degrade and destroy the industrial base that made America victorious during World War I, World War II, and the Cold War.