Dave McCormick: “In the Philadelphia shipyard, we need to go from one ship a…”

“We've let the defense industrial base drift and so basic fundamental things like shipbuilding as an example, we've lost the capability to do that. We have less than 1% of global shipbuilding. So In the Philadelphia shipyard, we need to go from one ship a year to 20 ships a year. In Rhodes, which is the submarine component manufacturer next to the Philly shipyard, we're going from, you know, one submarine a year to three submarines a year. So there's some basic.” (14:50–14:55)

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