On Monday, December 7 at 3:00 p.m. ET, the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security and its Forward Defense program will launch “A blueprint for tomorrow’s fleet: Revitalizing US shipbuilding and the maritime industrial base,” the final report of the Revitalizing US Shipbuilding Task Force. Co-chaired by former Secretary of Defense Mark Esper, former Acting Deputy Secretary of Defense Christine Fox, and former Secretary of the Navy Kenneth Braithwaite, the task force drew from the experience and insights of members from government and industry to assess the condition of the US maritime industrial base and chart a path toward a shipbuilding enterprise equal to the nation’s security needs.

The report offers policymakers and industry leaders a roadmap for expanding the capacity of US shipyards and strengthening the workforce that sustains them, pairing near-term actions achievable under existing authorities with longer-range reforms concerning how the United States funds and produces its ships. As adversaries continue to expand their fleets, the decisions made in Washington and across the private sector over the next several years will determine whether the United States can maintain its dominance at sea.

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