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Strategy for distributed shipbuilding

Division A · Title X: General Provisions · Subtitle B: Naval Vessels and Shipyards

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The Navy must create and carry out a plan to increase building ship parts at different locations before assembling the ship at a main shipyard. Within nine months of the law passing, the Navy must also brief Congress on this plan. Distributed shipbuilding means making parts of a ship at separate places or by different companies than the main shipyard where the ship is put together.

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Section Text · Sec. 1026.

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(a) Strategy

Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Navy shall develop and implement a strategy to increase distributed shipbuilding.

(b) Briefing

Not later than 270 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall provide to the congressional defense committees a briefing on the strategy required under subsection (a).

(c) Distributed shipbuilding defined

In this section, the term distributed shipbuilding means, with respect to a vessel, the construction of modules of the vessel—

(1)

by one or more entities that are independent from the operators of the shipyard at which the final assembly of the vessel occurs; and

(2)

at a facility that is located separately from, or that is located within but is not operated by, the shipyard at which the final assembly of the vessel occurs.