Home > Proceedings Magazine > 2005 > June 2005 Save the Submarine ShipyardsCaptain James H. Patton, Jr., U.S. Navy (Retired)Proceedings, June 2005 Keeping a defense industry going in a democracy has never been easy, but it has always been important. Without two submarine builders, the United States could find itself in a lot of trouble. NORTHROP GRUMMAN (JOHN WHALEN) The United States needs the capabilities offered by the two commercial yards building submarines ,Northrop Grumman Newport News (above) and General Dynamics Electric Boat (below) and cannot afford to lose the skills resident in the teams they have put together over...