Well, we need to utilize our private shipyards better. The public yards, as you know, are totally full and we got a backlog of ships for normal maintenance and just and obviously ship construction. We can't even meet our schedules on our Virginia class submarine, which we should be at two a year. We're less than one and a half per year. And even if they had the money, they can't meet that schedule because of the workforce isn't there, the. And the capability and the capacity isn't there. (07:40–07:49)
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Asserts that the U.S. is not meeting its production schedule for Virginia class submarines.
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