arlier this month, the American Marine Machinery Association gathered to listen to Edward Bartlett, the founder and CEO of Bartlett Maritime, voice his concerns about the nation’s submarine capability shortfall. Bartlett described it as a crisis that had become “an inescapable, urgent problem.”
The various American shipbuilding industry’s key players heard Bartlett layout that while efforts to improve submarine maintenance in the last few years had some progress, there was still much more that could – and should – be done.
“While these efforts clearly remain vital and are having a positive impact, it is equally clear that both additional industrial infrastructure and access to an expanded labor pool are needed,” Bartlett warned, according to a report from Naval Technology.
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