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WASHINGTON \u2014 The U.S. Navy needs $50 million in fiscal 2022 to get Virginia-class attack submarine construction back on track, after the coronavirus pandemic disproportionately hit that shipbuilding program, the service told lawmakers June 8.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The American submarine-industrial base in 2020 fell behind its required production rate of two Virginia subs per year plus work on the first Columbia-class ballistic missile submarine. Mike Petters, president and CEO of Huntington Ingalls Industries, said during a quarterly earnings call in August that its Newport News Shipbuilding yard in conjunction with the Navy decided to use limited labor resources during the early months of the pandemic to prioritize other projects \u2014 an aircraft carrier refueling and submarine repair work, in particular \u2014 and take the biggest hit on submarine construction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the Navy said during a Senate Seapower Subcommittee hearing that the FY22 investment will help it get back to building two Virginias and one Columbia submarine per year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After building up to that production rate during 2018 and 2019, COVID-19 hit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSo we kind of took a step back from that in 2020. We weren\u2019t really producing at a two-per-year-plus-one rate,\u201d Jay Stefany, the acting assistant secretary of the Navy for research, development and acquisition, said at the hearing. \u201cBut in the last six months I\u2019ve seen that coming back; the industrial base is getting back to that cadence where they believe they soon will be at a two-plus-one \u2026 capability.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The $50 million will fund \u201csome infrastructure capabilities \u2026 that we found are a bottleneck and would be helpful to get to that two-Virginias-plus-one-Columbia rate,\u201d Stefany added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At issue is the fact that submarine construction rates will only need to go up from here. Industry, over the course of the Virginia program, had to ramp up from building one per year to two per year, which led to delays in delivering the Virginia Block IV sub<\/a>. Today, industry is being asked to build two Virginias and part of one Columbia sub a year \u2014 the rate that industry was achieving before the pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Petters said during multiple earnings calls that workforce attendance hit a low of about 50 percent during the early days of the pandemic and settled at around 70-80 percent later in 2020, with employees not just out of work because they were sick or quarantining but also because they were tending to children or elderly parents at home, among other mitigating circumstances associated with the pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To keep up with demand, by FY26 the industrial base must be able to produce two submarines plus a full ballistic missile submarine each year, with the Navy planning to buy one Columbia sub every year from 2026 to 2035.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Virginia-class submarine New Jersey (SSN 796) reached pressure hull complete in February 2021. The construction milestone signifies that all of the submarine\u2019s hull sections have been joined to form a single, watertight unit. The boat is currently 72% complete. HII photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

More challenging still is the notion that the Navy wants to increase its submarine production to three per year to build up its submarine inventory amid the growth of the Russian and Chinese navies. Former Defense Secretary Mark Esper rolled out a Battle Force 2045 plan in October<\/a>, calling for three-per-year sub production to start immediately.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stefany said achieving that output would take a significant investment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cRight now, I would say the submarine-industrial base is in a place to do two Virginias plus a Columbia,\u201d he said. \u201dNow, in the future, to get to three Virginias plus one, I don\u2019t believe the industrial base right now can handle that. But we did a study. … We\u2019re looking at $1.5 to $2 billion of further investment by ourselves plus industry, and an increase in the workforce that would be necessary over a period of time to get to that state.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Achieving three Virginia subs a year while maintaining Columbia construction would take \u201ca major investment of effort, capital and workforce,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still, the operational need is such that the Navy may have to look at making that investment \u2014 essentially the cost of a full submarine to shore up the industrial base so it can increase output rates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the hearing, Vice Adm. Jim Kilby, the deputy chief of naval operations for war-fighting requirements and capabilities, said the Navy\u2019s submarine and undersea warfare ecosystem \u2014 which consists of submarines, P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft, underwater arrays and more \u2014 \u201cis the best in the world, it is unparalleled.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe must preserve that. I think increasing the number of submarines is definitely a part of that, and we\u2019ve got to get after what Secretary Stefany alluded to.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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