Having worked as a military contractor & seeing military inefficiency up close, farming out the handling of shipbuilding to a company that works for profit (& efficiency) isn’t that bad of an idea imo. [image] After Frigate Setbacks, Navy Turns to Commercial-Style Construction Manager... …

Industry has been using separate or subsidiary companies to deliver new ships for decades. MSC had a Ship Introduction Program office for about ten years which did final delivery of about 25 ships. Until the Admiral realized that we were still stuck with a NAVSEA fu’d contract. I had first hand k…

I know a program manager for contract vessels at MSC that would be perfect for that job! He’s great at inefficient bureaucracy… like excels at it. …I just realized that I’m describing all of MSC’s shoreside workforce.

As a Delft University Naval architect and Ship Design Engineer (1970), i have been working at several Netherlands’ shipyards; and as member of the contract team (the VCM) i had to take design and (partly) contract responsibility for the consturcion of several kinds of naval vessels like mine hunters…

Maybe this idea could be copied?: [image] Standard Naval vessel designs Marine Engineering [image] Twin visions — proposed designs for the Royal Norwegian Navy’s standardised vessels from Kongsberg Maritime (top) and Ulstein (bottom). Images: Kongsberg/Ulstein…

In theory it’s a good idea, but having been both a contractor and at the mercy of contractors on government projects, I see a lot of this becoming a blame game. Navy wants to distance itself from the disastrous change orders that straight up destroy timelines and budgets. if it works out, great. If…

“Navy wants to distance itself from the disastrous change orders that straight up destroy timelines and budgets.” If this would be really true, and to avoid that the Navy would need to issue any change order at all, at contract signing the Navy should have all technical information (drawings, speci…

US Navy Creates Middleman Position To Improve Inefficient Bureaucracy In Shipbuilding

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Maybe this idea could be copied?:

Modified to suite US Navy, Coast Guard and shipyard situation as necessary. (Without killing the advantages and cost saving built into the idea in the process)

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