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Reforms Needed to Reduce Delays and Costs in U.S. Shipbuilding

28 May 2024

These tributing to delays and cost overruns in delays cost the Pentagon much money and negatively america’s shipbuilding industry, delaying the delivery of warships to the Pentagon. [...] These programs have low rates of recidivism and the employees hired through them are often some of the hardest-working and most loyal employees of the shipyard. [...] For example, Section 112 of the Clean Air Act requires that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) “establish emission standards that require the maximum degree of reduction in emissions of hazardous air pollutants.” The EPA thus has broad latitude in determining what level of reduction is necessary and in revising previous emissions standards. [...] The inconsistency in demand from the Navy is largely to blame for the problems facing the ship- building industry. [...] Granting this blanket approval were they to build warships for the Pentagon in the United States could incentivize them to invest in the American shipbuilding industry and expand American shipbuilding capacity.
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United States of America

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