Dan Webster: “Every time we get the GAO reports, it is always mentioned. It is a little thing...”

We just want to get ships built. That is all we want to do. Tell us how to do it. We will get the money for you.

We absolutely have to do better on this.

To date, we have yet to see such a plan, let alone a cost estimate or a timeline of the first vessel in the fleet.

Given these immense resources, it should come as no surprise that adversaries, including Russia and China, are working to assert themselves in the region.