‘Stop trying to control every step’ of shipbuilding, senator tells Navy. Tim Sheehy, R-Mont., a freshman senator and former SEAL, thinks the sea service needs to abandon its decades-old practice of being extremely hands-on during the construction of its ever-more-complicated warships.

An average naval officer is not a shipbuilding expert. They're just not,” Sheehy said Wednesday at a CSIS maritime-security event . “It takes decades to build that institutional knowledge of not just naval architecture, but also knowledge of the industrial base, to effectively build the ship and build it fast and build it right. And the Navy lost that institutional knowledge decades ago.” And, he said, if the Navy can shift its focus from requirements—and change orders—to outcomes, the rest of the Penta

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