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Dave McCormick: “We have less than 1% of global shipbuilding.”

Featuring: Dave McCormick, Republican | U.S. Senate, Pennsylvania

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Sen. Dave McCormick on AI, the Future of Warfare & American Power | School of War

Published | Video Starts at 14:47

I said earlier, which is we need to do two things. 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. (14:47–14:51)

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Asserts that the U.S. has less than 1% of global shipbuilding capacity.

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