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Navy, industry has ‘got to adjust’ to realities of shipyard worker pay: Service official

"We have got to reflect prices that can allow us to have the labor pool that we need for the long term,” said the Navy official.

White House’s OMB skeptical of Navy plan to boost shipyard wages, SASC chairman says

Senate Armed Services Committee chairman Roger Wicker said the shipbuilding industry will not be able to meet the Navy’s demand for Virginia-class submarines unless it is willing to pay competitive wages to workers doing a “very difficult, physical job.”

General Dynamics inks $450M contract for Austal to build out sub facility

The deal is a milestone in Austal's ongoing partnership with General Dynamics to offload some of the pressure on the submarine industrial base.

Northrop Grumman-made part ‘significant’ contributor to sub delays: Navy secretary

"Now it [the Columbia-class submarine] is delayed by at least a year, leaving no more margin for failure for the rest of the decades-long procurement and delivery schedule," said Rep. Ken Calvert, chair of the House Appropriations defense subcommittee.

Pentagon weighs options to lengthen life of legacy nuclear platforms as new programs face delays

"The question is, how do you manage what you might call the transition from the legacy systems to modern systems?” John Plumb, assistant secretary of Defense for Space Policy, told reporters.

AUKUS critics jump on Virginia-class sub budget plan, but Canberra sanguine

"The reality is the Americans are not going to make their submarine deficit worse than it is already by giving or selling submarines to Australia and the AUKUS legislation actually sets that out quite specifically," former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said.

Block V Virginia-class attack subs delayed 2 years due to staffing problems: GAO

Independent government auditors found the issues are driving up price, but not yet to the ceiling for the contracts.

GD Electric Boat awards HII $567M contract for Columbia-class submarine work

Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro recently said the service is slightly behind its "accelerated" schedule goals for the shipbuilding program.

Will US supply Australia with AUKUS subs? ‘That’s not going to happen,’ key US lawmaker says

The US should take the "next Virginia class that's built, designate that to the Australian AOR, and [say] we're going to dual-crew it with Australian sailors and US sailors," Rep. Rob Wittman tells Breaking Defense.

Navy, General Dynamics lay the keel for newly renamed USS District of Columbia

The keel laying is an important, albeit largely ceremonial, event in the submarine's path forward to its first patrol in 2030.

Navy’s submarine builders ‘over cost’, ‘under performing’: Top admiral

Gilday's blunt remarks were in response to lawmaker questions about the submarine Boise's years-long wait to dive again.