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Lawmakers press Navy, industry on shipyard workforce, capacity and infrastructure funding
Summary
Senators pressed Navy witnesses and GAO on workforce shortages, hiring and retention, shipyard capacity and infrastructure projects including SIOP investments and the Puget Sound carrier-drydock plan.
Senators pressed witnesses about the scale of workforce and infrastructure work needed to expand U.S. shipbuilding capacity and to reverse chronic production shortfalls.
"We have to be open to new approaches," Ranking Member Tim Kaine said, and asked witnesses to detail workforce and supply-chain effects they see across shipyards. Dr. Brett Seidl described hiring initiatives: "We've had 16,000,000 hits on that site, 2,500,000 applications. It's led to about 9,700 employees hired in '23, a 40% increase over '22,…
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