Navy Cost Estimates on Shipyard Modernization ‘Wildly Off,’ GAO Tells Congress

The aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77) is dry-docked at Norfolk Naval Shipyard (NNSY) in Portsmouth, Virginia, on April 23, 2019. US Navy Photo

The Navy’s cost estimates for modernizing dry docks in its four public shipyards ‘have been wildly off point,” Diana Maurer, the director of defense capabilities in the General Accountability Office, testified on Tuesday.

She was referring to GAO’s latest report on the Navy’s Shipyard Infrastructure Optimization Plan released this week and a...

https://news.usni.org/2022/05/11/navy-cost-estimates-on-shipyard-modernization-wildly-off-gao-tells-congress

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