01/25/2024
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"The committee believes that the Navy should maintain the two proven shipbuilding sources of large surface combatants."
"And in the long run, it is certainly in the taxpayers' interests to have those two shipyards."
"You mean a product can be delivered to us that costs 100 million bucks, and if it fails, it is on us?"
"I would be interested in the overall question of the sustainment costs and why they are so high because, as I say, Ellen Lord said they are unaffordable."