As I said, sequestration DOES cause problems, but this isn’t one of them.
The boat in your link was destroyed while at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, NOT an “outsource” shipyard.
“The boat in your link was destroyed while at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, NOT an “outsource” shipyard.”
What I got from it was the Navy had tightened up on who could work on their subs. I think that was prudent. However, that has caused a big backlog. (That was not discussed in the article. But I’ll wager that is the issue.)
Having worked in the cleared world, I can attest that it is much more difficult to get a clearance today. The process of getting clearances is seriously backlogged and only a huge funding increase would address that issue. Funding will not increase because solving that problem is not sexy or obvious and there is no political gain for a politician to resolve it.