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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My 20 year 0ld Granddaughter makes $60,000 a year as a 5th year Apprentice Plumber, plus overtime. NO debt.
Did George W Bush make the decision to kick out the trades or was it the local education authorities? Seems to me both could have accommodated and should have been! Sounds to me like there was another agenda at work or managerial incompetence or both!
> Did George W Bush make the decision to kick out the trades or was it the local education authorities? <
I know quite a bit about this topic. I was teaching at a public high school when Bush II’s ‘No Child Left Behind’ came into force.
It’s all on Bush. He signed it into law. NCLB tested for math and English only. And woe to the school (or the school district) that did poorly in those tests. Schools that did poorly were humiliated. Officials there got no bonuses and no promotions.
So it was a matter of self-preservation. Those local officials tried the best they could to meet the NCLB requirements. That meant concentrating on what NCLB tested for. Everything else was secondary, including the trades.
Bush II did not wreck the trades deliberately. It was just more stupidity on his part, and on the part of those in Congress who pushed for NCLB. They did not think things through. Typical of politicians.
Having been a plumber and knowing that women can’t do 100% of plumbing, she must work for someone like a union or construction firm that can cover the weak spots.
And still didn’t work! We continue to fall in math and English scores. I remember reading about some the math curriculum approaches. They seemed to emphasize complexity of method for complexity’s sake then for any pedagogical reason. I seem to remember states or locales could choose to opt out if they wanted but of course they wouldn’t get the federal sugar ($$$) if they did so. The money was too big a draw I’m sure.
And still didn’t work! We continue to fall in math and English scores. I remember reading about some the math curriculum approaches. They seemed to emphasize complexity of method for complexity’s sake then for any pedagogical reason. I seem to remember states or locales could choose to opt out if they wanted but of course they wouldn’t get the federal sugar ($$$) if they did so. The money was too big a draw I’m sure.
IF they can even find material. I have a tiny machine and fab shop and can hardly find the aluminum alloys I need. And when I can it is about 7 times what it was pre chomo Joe.
BUT, as we all know, hiring trannies and unqualified “marginalized peoples” will fix this all.
Perhaps a specially designed drone carrier can fill our carrier needs?
I hope so, soon.
It would be unimaginable to lose 5,000 personnel on each carrier — I don’t know the numbers for battleships, cruisers, destroyers etc — I don’t even know if those are still valid ship names.
I saw the last word “survey” as “scurvey”. I thought well let’s put some OJ on the flight deck!
China has 200 shipbuilding locations...
” 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. “
In Feb, 2002, the single USA source of ballistic steel was Oregon Steel, which is owned by EVRAZ, a Russian company controlled by Putin Oligarch Roman Obramavitch.
(EVRAZ was going to sell its North American operations, but Obramavich seems to have been exempted from sanctions, and I don’t think it has happened yet)
In any case, the USA imports 30% of steel used, so there have been shortages since the Ukraine war started and sanctions went on Russia, until recently when steel prices fell due to the economy.
That is Feb, 2022...
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