Zhi Zhu 🕸️<p>"Consider these alarms: In an uncommonly public report in April, Carlos Del Toro, the <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Navy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Navy</span></a> secretary, announced that nine Navy ship programs were between one & three years behind schedule...</p><p>Del Toro called out dilatory <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/contractors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>contractors</span></a> by name — <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/GeneralDynamics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GeneralDynamics</span></a> Electric Boat, <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/HuntingtonIngalls" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HuntingtonIngalls</span></a> Industries and <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/FincantieriMarinette" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FincantieriMarinette</span></a> Marine — and went so far as to suggest that the <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/UnitedStates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UnitedStates</span></a> should consider building some of its <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/warships" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>warships</span></a> overseas."<br><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/06/24/pentagon-delays-navy-doomsday/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">washingtonpost.com/opinions/20</span><span class="invisible">24/06/24/pentagon-delays-navy-doomsday/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Military" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Military</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>News</span></a></p>