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Abstract:
The purpose of this study was to examine the shipbuilding industrial base and its ability to support the United States national security strategy. We found that commercial shipbuilding in the United States has been completely surpassed by the global shipbuilding industry to the point where it survives only to fulfill the niche market of the protected Jones Act fleet. At the same time, the unit cost of United States naval vessels is so high the US Navy can not afford the fleet it says it needs. This is the industry studied by the 2005 Industrial College of the Armed Forces Shipbuilding Seminar, an industry in peril of maintaining the industrial base necessary to design, build, and maintain the most technically advanced and capable naval vessels in the world.
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36 |
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2005 |
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A145944 |
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