The Navy needs to stay on the five-year buy rate for aircraft carriers to keep a strong industrial base and an efficient transition from building one carrier to the next, the president of Newport News Shipbuilding said last week. Widening the gap between procuring the carriers could cause costs to rise and diminish the strength of the workers and their skill set as they may be forced to seek jobs elsewhere, Matt Mulherin, who runs the shipyard owned by Huntington…
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