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SlothmanAllen

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Brief but interesting article on building out the labour force at Newport News. Newport has met hiring goals for the last couple of years, but COVID-19 put a strain on skilled workers with a spat of retirements. The Newport region will likely not be able to meet the hiring goals for Newport with the yard expansion. Current goal is to have ~30,000 workers employed by 2030, which requires expanding to new area for recruitment.

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To that end, the shipyard is adjusting its recruiting efforts. It recently launched an initiative with North Carolina government entities to attract and train skilled trade workers who could continue to reside in North Carolina and take buses to Newport News each day. Beale said more than 1,000 North Carolina residents already work at the yard, and he sees “great untapped potential in that bordering state.”

Nationally, to reach skilled machinists, electricians, welders, pipefitters and more who have worked in sectors other than the shipbuilding-industrial base, “we’re broadening our typical recruiting area,” Beale said. “We’ve identified regions within the nation that may be ripe for harvesting talent, and we’re being intentional with our
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to reach and penetrate within those areas, specifically targeting those experienced workforce.” That campaign is meant to highlight various jobs at the yard.
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The top Republican Senator of the Senate Armed Services Committee has put out a proposal for raising US Defense spending to 5% of GDP. This starts with a $55 billion above Fiscal 25 Full Year defence caps, and then would work out to 5% of GDP over time. Some highlights:
  • An additional $2 billion to “disperse and harden [U.S. Indo-Pacific Command] infrastructure,” another $2.25 billion for “Guam disaster recovery and resilient rebuild,” and $500 million for a Guam defense system.
  • Seeks to allocate $1.5 billion in replenishment funds to allow the Defense Department to send Taiwan weapons from U.S. stockpiles.
  • Calls on the Navy to “begin work on a fifth nuclear shipyard, which will likely cost over $20 billion.”
  • Calls on the Air Force to purchase “at least 340″ aircraft above its current plan over the next five years while accelerating production of
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    and doubling its planned quantity from 100 to 200.
  • Reforms to get submarine builders to three Virginia-class attack subs per year and the creation of a “large scale industrial base program” for surface combatants, which would cost $20 billion over five years.
  • Raise all munitions production to maximum rates unless stocks are already above the required level, and call for the creation of alternate production lines to surge short-term capacity. It would also reform the Defense Production Act with updated authorities — which are not specified — and execute a $5.2 billion backlog of DPA projects on microelectronics, castings and forgings, and biomanufacturing.
  • Reverse its decision to cancel the SM-3 Block 1B interceptor, and surge existing production lines for interceptors “while exploring optionality in other systems like NASAMS,
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    , and others,” a summary of the plan states.
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SlothmanAllen said:
The top Republican Senator of the Senate Armed Services Committee has put out a proposal for raising US Defense spending to 5% of GDP. This starts with a $55 billion above Fiscal 25 Full Year defence caps, and then would work out to 5% of GDP over time. Some highlights:
  • An additional $2 billion to “disperse and harden [U.S. Indo-Pacific Command] infrastructure,” another $2.25 billion for “Guam disaster recovery and resilient rebuild,” and $500 million for a Guam defense system.
  • Seeks to allocate $1.5 billion in replenishment funds to allow the Defense Department to send Taiwan weapons from U.S. stockpiles.
  • Calls on the Navy to “begin work on a fifth nuclear shipyard, which will likely cost over $20 billion.”
  • Calls on the Air Force to purchase “at least 340″ aircraft above its current plan over the next five years while accelerating production of
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    and doubling its planned quantity from 100 to 200.
  • Reforms to get submarine builders to three Virginia-class attack subs per year and the creation of a “large scale industrial base program” for surface combatants, which would cost $20 billion over five years.
  • Raise all munitions production to maximum rates unless stocks are already above the required level, and call for the creation of alternate production lines to surge short-term capacity. It would also reform the Defense Production Act with updated authorities — which are not specified — and execute a $5.2 billion backlog of DPA projects on microelectronics, castings and forgings, and biomanufacturing.
  • Reverse its decision to cancel the SM-3 Block 1B interceptor, and surge existing production lines for interceptors “while exploring optionality in other systems like NASAMS,
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    , and others,” a summary of the plan states.
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Why stop at 5%? Surely at least 20% GDP needs to be spent to stop the eViL CoMmiE ThREaT!
 
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Maikeru said:
Why stop at 5%? Surely at least 20% GDP needs to be spent to stop the eViL CoMmiE ThREaT!
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20% might be just a little bit far. Not even at any point throughout the entire Cold War has the US defense spending ever reached beyond 15% of their GDP.

But hey, we can aim for 10% first.

All Beijing needs to do is to raise her defense spending from the current <2% to 2.5% of her GDP, and watch the China-hawk Blobs in DC scream and exclaim "How dare you Chicom Chynaaaa!" .

Maybe we would even see a bag of bushings costing 180000$ or even 270000$ instead of the present 90000$!
 
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Ouch!

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Weight growth is bad but cost growth is worse:
“Maybe if the Constellation, if that had not been underbid during the previous administration and hadn’t been delayed from the very beginning and they came in with a best value price for it, and the Navy had not accepted it back then, we’d be in a better place with regards to the frigate as well,” Del Toro told the panel.

Several months after the Navy issued the initial 2020 contract award for the lead ship, a
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that the service underestimated the price tag of the lead ship by 40 percent and that it could cost $1.6 billion.
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Blaming it on Trump is a nice touch.
 
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