The US Government Accountability Office (GAO) recently published a report stating that the US Navy falls short on design practices that reduce leading companies’ shipbuilding time. The GAO said companies implement the following measures: Use existing ship designs—limiting changes to a section of the ship—to create new designs, allowing companies to stabilise designs sooner and […]
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Anyone who has ever tried to plow through Navy budget request documentation knows that it’s strong on patriotic sentiment but at times fuzzy on a lot of other things.
It seems that congressional conferees have been concerned that recent Navy budget requests underfunded critical weapon system programs that were using multiyear procurement authority. According to GAO (the U.S. Government Accountability Office), they also questioned whether the Navy’s budget requests in recent years for programs...
https://www.marinelog.com/shipbuilding/gao-report-looks-at-navy-multiyear-procurements/
The COVID-19 pandemic could hamper freight and passenger railroads’ ability to meet the December 31 deadline on positive train control (PTC) implementation, according to an April 30 report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) to Senator Roger Wicker (R-Mississippi), chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation.
“Unforeseen issues, in particular the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) global pandemic, could delay railroads’ implementation and put...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/covid-19-pandemic-threatens-positive-train-control-implementation