To construct the Navy’s planned Golden Fleet, U.S. naval shipbuilders must hire a quarter million people over the next decade, Secretary of the Navy John Phelan said last week, US Naval Institute News reports.
Developing that workforce is key to the service’s plan to expand shipbuilding in parallel with new manufacturing techniques, Phelan said at the Surface Navy Association’s national symposium, as he emphasized the need for more vocational education and fair wages.
