{"id":1469,"date":"2020-05-14T12:02:25","date_gmt":"2020-05-14T09:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/llsra.lt\/?p=1469"},"modified":"2020-05-14T12:02:25","modified_gmt":"2020-05-14T09:02:25","slug":"u-s-navy-awarding-more-contracts-to-help-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/llsra.lt\/en\/news\/u-s-navy-awarding-more-contracts-to-help-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Navy awarding more contracts to help economy"},"content":{"rendered":"

New Ships<\/strong><\/p>\n

No 19 \/ 7 May 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

U.S. Navy awarding more contracts to help economy<\/strong><\/p>\n

The US. Navy said it is continuing to increase the number of new ship contract awards<\/p>\n

to help the U.S. economy recover from the impact of coronavirus. The U.S. Navy’s head<\/p>\n

of acquisition Mr James Geurts said the U.S. Navy is\u00a0“basically 32% ahead on contract<\/p>\n

awards” of where its planned to be at this point in 2020. He called on U.S. naval shipbuilders<\/p>\n

to keep introducing different working techniques to allow efficiency while also<\/p>\n

creating some resiliency during the coronavirus lockdown. The largest U.S. shipbuilders<\/p>\n

like Huntington Ingalls and Bath Iron Works are staggering shifts and allowing liberal<\/p>\n

holiday and teleworking without suffering much disruption so far, company executives<\/p>\n

said. Geurts said the lessons the country’s shipbuilding sector is learning under coronavirus<\/p>\n

may lead to changes in long-term working. “We cannot operate the way we used to<\/p>\n

operate, which had a lot of fragility and brittleness as we are seeing right now,”\u00a0he said.<\/p>\n

Even before coronavirus hit the U.S. economy, the Navy was looking at ways to save money<\/p>\n

on repairing ships. This spring the Navy cancelled plans for a class-wide service-life<\/p>\n

extension project for its Arleigh Burke-class destroyers that would have added 10 years to<\/p>\n

their planned 35-year service lives. Not keeping the Arleigh Burke longer, and saving on<\/p>\n

their life extension upgrades, would free up money for the Navy to buy more unmanned<\/p>\n

systems and other smaller ships to fit into plans U.S. Defence Secretary Mark Esper is<\/p>\n

making with Navy leadership for a smaller, faster, more stealthy fleet. To that end, the<\/p>\n

service has been working on changing how it awards ship maintenance contracts. The<\/p>\n

Navy is working to bundle multiple ship repair contracts together to give industry a<\/p>\n

more predictable work schedule, allowing them to plan long-term. Awarding several ship<\/p>\n

contracts at once will allow the shipbuilder to stockpile parts and arrange work schedules<\/p>\n

in a more efficient and rational manner, as opposed to the one-off, last-minute contracts<\/p>\n

the Navy has traditionally awarded for ship repair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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