The Navy’s AI bet to fix its submarine bottleneck

A $2.4 billion automated factory aims to speed production. The harder question is whether the U.S. can still fix what it builds.

An artist rendering of the future U.S. Navy Columbia-class ballistic missile submarines [Rendering: U.S. Navy/Wikimedia Commons]

BY Chris Stokel-Walker

The answer to America’s submarine bottleneck, the U.S. Navy has decided, lies as much in software as it does in steel. A new multibillion-dollar facility in Cherokee, Alabama, aims to harness AI and robotics to build submarine........

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