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Lack of U.S. Warship Repair Capacity Worrying Navy

USS Fitzgerald (DDG-62) pierside at Huntington Ingalls Industries Pascagoula, Miss., shipyard on April 16, 2019. US Navy Photo

A deficit of ship repair capacity and an expected change in the Navy’s needs for large combatants versus smaller ones may force the entire industry to rethink their roles in construction and maintenance work going forward, a panel of officials said this week.

The two halves of the Navy’s Team Ships acknowledged that more companies would need to get involved in ship...

https://news.usni.org/2020/08/26/lack-of-u-s-warship-repair-capacity-worrying-navy

Coast Guard Struggling to Get Ships Repaired as Navy Expands Use of Smaller Yards

Coast Guard Cutter Waesche prepares to refloat from drydock in Seattle, Wash., May 22, 2018. The Waesche is a 418-foot Legend-class National Security Cutter homeported in Alameda, California. US Coast Guard photo.

SAN DIEGO, Calif. – The Coast Guard is struggling to get ship repair yards to bid on its work as the Navy is leaning on more of these same companies to help dig out of its own ship maintenance backlog – and with the Navy contracts being larger and more lucrative, the Coast Guard is...

https://news.usni.org/2020/03/16/coast-guard-struggling-to-get-cutters-repaired-as-navy-expands-use-of-smaller-yards