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The Pentagon needs a third shipyard that can build nuclear-powered ships so the U.S. can keep pace with China and Russia’s nuclear modernization, a congressional commission said in a new report published Thursday. A third private shipyard would expand industry’s capacity to build nuclear-powered submarines, therefore bolstering U.S. strategic forces, according to the Congressional Commission on the Strategic Posture of the United States. The commission suggests the Pentagon “increase shipbuilding capacity, by working with industry to establish or renovate a third shipyard dedicated to production of nuclear-powered vessels, with particular emphasis on nuclear-powered submarines,” according to the report.

Chris Morehouse, Aerospace Engineer at U.S. Air Force (2017-present) We can just put up a bunch of numbers, but I don’t think that gives a full appreciation of scale. So first let’s hit some specific examples. The B-24 This is Willow Run. It was a B-24 plant built by Ford to mass produce the bomber. It ran its line 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and produced a complete B-24 every 63 minutes on average. At peak, it produced 100 bombers in just two days. This plant produced less than half of the total B-24s we built during...

The Cuban government conspired with a Curacao ship repair company to provide practically slave labor fixing up vessels, including Miami-based cruise ships, and kept workers under harsh conditions, a lawsuit filed in U.S. District court in Miami alleges. The civil suit filed before Judge James Lawrence King alleges that up to 100 Cuban shipyard workers are forced to work against their will at Curacao Drydock Co., a ship repair company with an agent in Delray Beach, Klattenberg Marine Associates. The suit, filed by three workers who escaped and now live in Florida, alleges they were ordered to work 16-hour shifts...

Inside Iraqi Corruption Charles R. Smith Tuesday, March 29, 2005 John A. Shaw is a curious example of Washington politics gone mad. Shaw is a veteran government employee who served inside the White House under Presidents Ford, Nixon and Reagan and was an associate deputy secretary in the Department of Commerce. In 2001, Shaw was appointed by Bush Defense Secretary Don Rumsfeld to head the newly formed Office of International Technology Security. In this post, Shaw began the difficult task of reforming government controls over the export of sensitive technology to foreign countries. In 2003, Shaw began investigating allegations of...

Memorial Day is an occasion to remember the men and women who went off to war and never returned. But it is also fitting on this day to recall the soldiers, sailors and Marines who served in World War II and came back. Those men and women and their families set off a huge postwar boom that completely changed the Bay Area - and produced the region that today's residents have inherited. World War II had a huge impact on the Bay Area. It resulted in major changes in the area's racial makeup, its economy, even its physical appearance. The...

Gdansk shipyard protests against Poland's incoming liberal government 29.10.2007 Several hundred workers of the legendary Gdansk shipyard have been rallying to protest what they fear will be a delay or even complete stop of the privatization of the shipyard, once the liberal Civic Platform party comes into power in Poland. Car tires were buring, fire crackers exploding and shipyard workers were chanting "Solidarity will win again" and "Liberals keep your hands off the shipyard". Trade union members have handed in a petition to proper authorities asking them not to interfere with the privatization process of the shipyard

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use. PASCAGOULA, Miss. - Northrop Grumman says it expects to lay off 900 employees in Pascagoula and New Orleans by the end of the year. Phil Teel, president of Northrop Grumman Ship Systems, said a dip in the number of contracts that have been awarded to the company over the past few years led to the layoffs. The company had anticipated layoffs for 2005 and 2006 before it begins increasing the work force in 2007 and 2008. The layoffs were announced Monday in a special newsletter. The cuts will affect 500 employees...

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (NNS) -- The beveling of a 15-ton metal plate kicked off advance construction of the newest class of aircraft carrier, the CVN 21 project, Aug. 11 at Northrop Grumman Newport News' shipyards in Virginia. The new carrier is designed to modernize the “flat tops” for the 21st century. Advance construction will take an estimated two years before construction can begin on the actual ship itself. This gives technicians and engineers the time needed to test and design the ship, and all the new technologies that will be put into the vessel. “We’re going to kind of mark...

Manufacturing News July 8, 2005 Vol. 12, No. 13 812 Words Page 1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- U.S. Navy Is Removing Life Support For Shipbuilding Industry The United States shipbuilding industry is on the verge of losing most of its component suppliers due to severe cuts in naval shipbuilding budgets and Department of Defense procurement rules that encourage acquisition managers to buy products from the lowest-cost commercial suppliers overseas, claims the American Shipbuilding Association. Next year's proposed budget for naval ships is $3.2 billion less than the amount appropriated in 2005, says Cynthia Brown, president of the American Shipbuilding Association. Since 2001, defense...

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...

Northrop officials say destroyer program changes ahead PASCAGOULA, Miss.—A Northrop Grumman Ships Systems official says changes in the Navy's shipbuilding program could force the defense giant into direct competition with Bath Iron Works. Ship Systems President Phil Dur, speaking Tuesday to a business group in Pascagoula, said depending on how the Navy changes its DD(X) destroyer program, Northrop could go from building three of the next generation warships to building all or none. Ship Systems is scheduled to build the first three ships of the cutting-edge class in Pascagoula, with the Bath, Maine, shipyard building two. Recent changes in the...