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Trump Signs Order Aimed At Expanding America’s Shipbuilding Capacity

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President Trump signed a presidential memorandum on Thursday aimed at enhancing America’s depleted shipbuilding capacity.

“The United States Navy has experienced a series of shipbuilding setbacks stemming from overly complex designs and iterative design change procedures, which have resulted in cost growth, delays, and cancellations. The lack of capacity and competition among shipbuilders has resulted in large backlogs of orders across six major Navy shipbuilding programs and a commercial shipbuilding sector that is not globally competitive,” the order reads. “The Department of War shall restore both capacity and competition to the maritime industrial base as it expands our naval force structure.”

Titled, “Rebuilding the United States Navy and America’s Shipbuilding Industrial Base,” the directive includes several prongs that seek to build upon a separate shipbuilding edict signed by the president last year. The new order specifically opens the door to increased collaboration with allied nations on shipbuilding, the establishment of a new public shipyard, and technological changes to the Navy’s newest aircraft carrier.

Using a memorandum of understanding signed by the United States and Finland last year on medium........

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