<div dir="ltr"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.4em;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-family:Neuton,Georgia,serif;line-height:1.5em;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font size="4">Between the CCP, American pork barrel politics, and military industrial complex executives and lobbyists, the U.S. Navy has quite a challenge on it's hands as they attempt to prepare for war in a timely fashion...</font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.4em;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-family:Neuton,Georgia,serif;line-height:1.5em;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font size="4">"The U.S. Navy’s top admiral accused defense companies of slow-rolling the production of certain weapons, moving too slowly on ship repairs, and lobbying against newer types of ships and aircraft that are needed to compete with China.</font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.4em;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-family:Neuton,Georgia,serif;line-height:1.5em;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font size="4">“Although it’s in industry’s best interest…building the ships that you want to build, lagging on repairs to ships and to submarines, lobbying Congress to buy aircraft that we don’t need, that excess to need, it’s not helpful,” Adm. Mike Gilday, chief of naval operations said Monday. “It really isn’t, in a budget-constrained environment.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.4em;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-family:Neuton,Georgia,serif;line-height:1.5em;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font size="4">“One of the things, I think, where industry can really help us is to be a bit more agile in pivoting to new technologies and new platforms,” Gilday said. “It’s not the ’90s anymore, as we go to the <a href="https://media.defense.gov/2020/Dec/16/2002553074/-1/-1/0/TRISERVICESTRATEGY.PDF" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:none medium;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(160,147,95);text-decoration-line:none">tri-service [maritime] strategy</a> and really try to punctuate the sense of urgency that we feel every day against China to move the needle in a bureaucracy that’s really not designed to move very fast.”<br></font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.4em;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-family:Neuton,Georgia,serif;line-height:1.5em;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font size="4">“About a year ago, the Navy spent a day with industry leaders, showing them the results of some of our wargaming,” he said. “I think that was really, really instructive. We need to do that again…and we need to do more of it not only with industry, but with the Hill.”<br></font></p><div><font size="4"><a href="https://americanmilitarynews.com/2021/08/top-admiral-defense-firms-are-lobbying-against-the-weapons-the-us-navy-needs/">https://americanmilitarynews.com/2021/08/top-admiral-defense-firms-are-lobbying-against-the-weapons-the-us-navy-needs/</a></font><br></div></div>