Posted on 01/22/2024 10:10:46 AM PST by Fish Speaker
WASHINGTON — A new survey conducted by a coalition of suppliers for US Navy aircraft carriers reports most vendors are facing increased challenges with inflation, material availability and workforce management.
The Aircraft Carrier Industrial Base Coalition survey [PDF], conducted in early November 2023 and published this week, received 150 voluntary responses. ACIBC is a trade association representing about 2,000 vendors across the country who make up the supply chain shipbuilder and prime contractor HII relies on to construct aircraft carriers at its Newport News Shipbuilding shipyard in Virginia.
Lisa Papini, ACIBC’s chairwoman, told Breaking Defense the results from the survey largely align with what vendors have told her anecdotally as recently as during the annual Surface Navy Association symposium last week.
According to a summary of the survey’s result, 95 percent of vendors have “faced challenges” due to inflation, 91 percent indicated they’ve had problems related to “material availability/delivery” and 85 percent have struggled “hiring, training and retaining their workforce.” A more comprehensive version of the survey is scheduled to be published in March.
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Agreed.
This is what happens when you train most American youth to become social-media influencers, financial traders, leftist political activists or self-absorbed sexual deviants.
Which occurred first?
Kudos.
Correct beyond correct! Our nice Democrats and RINOs -- think Uranium One as one among too many examples -- have managed to construct the "supply" to our productive companies offshore. Short sighted, but highly profitable for the few and well-connected.
Inflation you say?
I just went to purchase my flu cocktail of daytime flu med, Tussin and throat spray.
$55 bucks.
Eff it. I bought the daytime cold&flu, and cough drops and a tiny bottle of generic aspirin $27!!!!!!!!!!
I will say I was at CVS so I will be stopping at Walmart on the way home for a better deal
Still....
You’re on the right track there. Public high schools once had vibrant trades programs. Wood shop, metal shop, etc. Most of those classes are gone now.
George W. Bush is responsible for much of that. His ‘No Child Left Behind’ Law emphasized math and English, but ignored the trades. Out went the trades, to be replaced by more math and English classes.
So kids who wanted to learn a trade were stuck analyzing poetry instead.
They occurred in tandem, with the same general root cause - bloated, woke, ideological government, fed by printed, fiat Federal Reserve notes and massive debt it allows.
I agree with root cause, but not timing. Either way, we’re hosed and the root cause remains.
Sheet!! We shot .22’s at targets in the basement @ H.S.
They have a program just to recruit sub builders so they must have screwed that up too
We are so unready to face mobilization to get on war footing right now. We cannot mobilize the industrial base, we cannot assure the reliability of the supply chains, there is no ready work force or technical personnel to step in and keep the machinery working, and worst of all, there is no will or authorization from the government to do diddly to overcome these limitations.
The “new residents” pouring over the southern (and now Canadian) border bring none of these skills or support for reconstruction of the infrastructure needed.
We are so screwed.
That’s because our industrial manufacturing and resource base is GONE. Whether its the steel ore and smelting, sophisticated electronic chip resourcing and production, or even competent manpower. Gone. Democrats did that.
Yeah, the government buyers assume the industry has the resources to sit around and wait for the next government job, despite not having any civilian work because the industry was sent overseas.
On increasing trend I witness is government sending out a Request For Proposals and getting zero responses. They were warned about the DIE, Affirmative Discrimination, and tranny nonsense and now companies are walking away.
> We are so unready to face mobilization to get on war footing right now. We cannot mobilize the industrial base… <
I grew up a few miles from a huge steel mill. That mill rolled battleship armor in WW2. The mill is gone now, and much of the site sits empty. But there is a dollar store and a car wash at one end.
So if we need lots of steel, and fast, we’re in trouble. But if we need cheap Chinese junk and clean cars I think we’ll be okay.
🙁
The Bath, Maine shipyard got their cranes and drydocks from . . .
wait for it .. .
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China
HII, ranked No. 375 on the Fortune 500, was formed on 31 March 2011, as a divestiture from Northrop Grumman....../"
I could see fleets of drone submarines of various sizes capable of launching torpedoes, cruise missiles, etc. that would make surface ships obsolete.
Haven’t you been reading the news?
You can just take items from CVS without paying.
Why did Northrop unload its shipbuilding sector? Because it was making too much money?
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