JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii —Expanding the nation’s shipbuilding capacity and output is an “all-hands-on-deck effort,” the U.S. Navy’s top officer said, adding that he has never before seen such alignment “on the imperative” of making it work by Congress, the administration, the defense secretary, the Navy secretary, and the Navy itself.

In his first overseas trip as the chief of naval operations, Adm. Daryl Caudle visited South Korea, Japan, and Guam before stopping in Hawaii to tour aging barracks and talk to sailors about quality-of-life issues. In South Korea, Caudle visited HD Hyundai Heavy Industries and Hanwha Ocean shipyards, “to see how can some of our partners bolster our shipbuilding.”

“There’s so much capability there, that we need to partner with them, in the

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