The USN never learns. When will the concurrent change order madness end with them? End the Kumbaiyeehaw design by committee BS. That they have to end briefings to cover embarrassing delays and cost overruns is just breath taking, To take a simple idea like buying a simple, well regarded frigate design to speed delivery and keep costs down into a near new design via change orders???
Yes there are other issues too. But the by committee idiocy is the biggest problem. To go from 85% commonality to 15%??? Just mud stupid.
As the Navy’s largest U.S. trade show gets underway on Monday, officers in charge of the service’s marquee shipbuilding programs won’t offer the usual briefings with reporters and analysts about them.
That break from the tradition of sharing program updates at the Navy’s Sea-Air-Space Exposition comes just days after the Navy announced that four of its most critical shipbuilding programs are years behind schedule.
The Navy’s top admiral and civilian secretary have still not responded to questions about a damning Navy report released Tuesday outlining the sweeping failure of the Navy and its industrial partners to make expected progress on two submarine programs, an aircraft carrier and a new class of frigates.
“Our nation should be incredibly frustrated to see such systemic delays to our marquee shipbuilding programs,” Rep. Rob Wittman, (R-Va.) said.
The delays, from one to three years each depending on the program, come as the Navy and Pentagon pour billions into modernizing and upgrading shipyards in an attempt to build and repair ships more quickly and keep pace with China.
Beijing’s navy has already surpassed the U.S. in size.
But supply chain issues caused by Covid and the Navy’s insistence on changing the design of its ships even as workers build them have thrown the service’s plans into uncertainty.
Aware of the issues for years, the Navy is still unsure how to fix them.
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/07/navy-cancels-ship-briefings-internal-report-00150879
Yes there are other issues too. But the by committee idiocy is the biggest problem. To go from 85% commonality to 15%??? Just mud stupid.
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