[Lower Deck]

The markup includes an additional $433 million for a new destroyer, $856 million for an amphibious ship and $385 million for a littoral combat ship, as part of what Forbes labeled the largest shipbuilding funding level since 1988. The markup also calls for doubling Tomahawk missile production and a report on producing more fast-attack submarines — an area where the Navy faces a 25 percent reduction by the end of the 2020s as Cold War-era subs retire.

The congressman can throw all the money he wants at the Navy but he can't change one inescapable fact. The U.S. has two shipyards that can build destroyers and amphibious ships, two shipyards that can build submarines, and one shipyard that can build aircraft carriers or overhaul and refuel them. Your capacity is maxed out.

[riverdawg]

There are only two companies, but at least four separate shipyards, that could build destroyers and other ships. And there is plenty of capacity at Newport News to build additional ships besides the subs and carriers under contract. That yard just laid off about 750 workers.