These contractors are likely hemorrhaging talent, can't keep up with changing requirements, and are handcuffed with Communist "Didn't Earn It" (DEI) requirements.
It's all okay though, the illegal alien replacements can build ships for the Navy.
COVID.
It’s hard.
The “Navy” doesn’t build ships. Private contractors do. The focus on delay needs to start there.
Certainly this DIE crap isn’t helping the Navy, but it’s not responsible for the problem discussed. Now, if we want to talk about maintaining and operating ships that’s a valid discussion.
The Navy doesn’t build ships, but they develop the specifications, they have experts review designs and they manage progress evaluations. And they pass their DEI expectations to the contractors.
‘Private contractors do. The focus on delay needs to start there.”
I disagree. If the Navy would issue a construction contract and tell the contractor to build it to plan and specifications, then walk away. The contractor would be able to do exactly that. He could, because that was his estimate of the cost and time of the contract. But that is not how the Navy operates. Once the contract is signed, the Navy starts to issue change orders to the contract. Add a missile launcher here, use this piece of machinery instead of that specified, change this space into a women’s berthing compartment etc., etc. The change orders are what drive delay and cost increase in a construction contract. Each time the Navy issues a change order, the contractor is entitled to negotiate cost and schedule impact with the Navy. I would bet with the Gerald Ford contract, the Navy issued thousands of change orders. All of whiched added time to the construction and increased the cost of the finished ship. It goes that way with any ship the Navy contractos to build.
These contractors are likely hemorrhaging talent, can't keep up with changing requirements, and are handcuffed with Communist "Didn't Earn It" (DEI) requirements.
It's all okay though, the illegal alien replacements can build ships for the Navy.