US Navy’s Newest Submarine Leaves Pentagon Baffled on When It Will Be Ready
- Pentagon tells GAO it agrees to review risks to schedule
- GAO is preparing a public version of closely held report
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Officials overseeing development of the US Navy’s next-generation submarine to carry nuclear missiles don’t have the information they need to know whether the first vessel in the $132 billion Columbia program can deploy on time in 2031, an unreleased congressional audit found.
Navy and Pentagon officials “have not obtained the schedule data and statistical information needed to confidently determine the likelihood that the shipbuilders can accomplish it as planned,” the Government Accountability Office said in the report, which was delivered in September but hasn’t been made public.