"This factory is the first of three facilities designed to address the most critical bottlenecks in the maritime industrial base. The bottleneck is significant: a shortage of labor."
"In the U.S., just the submarine program alone is 70 million man hours in deficit, noting that the gap traces back in part to the offshoring of manufacturing jobs in the 1980s and 1990s."
"We have to give the American workforce superpowers of AI and robotics to allow them to be more productive. The goal is to automate 80% to 90% of the key efforts that are really complicated."
The U.S. Navy is developing a $2.4 billion facility in Cherokee, Alabama, to enhance submarine manufacturing through automation and AI. This factory will produce components for Virginia-class and Columbia-class submarines, addressing a significant labor shortage in the maritime industrial base. The initiative aims to automate 80% to 90% of complex manufacturing tasks, responding to a 70 million man-hour deficit in the submarine program. The project reflects a public-private effort to revive U.S. manufacturing capacity amid increasing geopolitical pressures for military hardware.
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