Naval and commercial yards reported through capacity, workforce, steel supply, module sequencing and the slippage visible years before a delivery date.
The SHIPS for America Act, introduced in December 2024 and reintroduced in April 2025, bundles tax, financing, workforce, and cargo-preference measures aimed at reversing the near-total decline of the U.S. commercial shipbuilding and shipping industry.
Ingalls Shipbuilding in Pascagoula, Mississippi is the Navy's sole builder of large-deck America-class LHA carriers and San Antonio-class LPD transports, assembling them from modular blocks while Congress and the Navy debate the size of the amphibious fleet.
SSN(X) is the Navy's planned successor to the Virginia-class attack submarine — faster, quieter, and carrying more torpedoes and payloads — with procurement targeted for the 2030s while the design remains in early development.
Four government-owned naval shipyards — Portsmouth, Norfolk, Puget Sound, and Pearl Harbor — perform most nuclear-powered ship maintenance for the Navy, and a decades-long infrastructure program is working to replace their aging dry docks and facilities.
DDG(X) is the Navy's planned large surface combatant intended to succeed the Ticonderoga-class cruisers and eventually the oldest Arleigh Burke destroyers, with a new hull, integrated electric power, and construction targeted for the 2030s.
The Columbia class is the Navy's highest-priority construction program, a 12-boat replacement for the Ohio-class fleet ballistic missile submarines that carry the sea-based leg of the U.S. nuclear triad.