US Navy Ship Building
The Navy presented two plans, the" all-the-money" plan and the "flat-budget" plan. The all-the-money plan builds ships at the rate necessary to hit a planned fleet size of 381 ships by 2042.
Several retirements of ships listed. Interesting retirement case that had a private shipyard service USS Helena (SSN 725) beginning in 2017 and now propose to retire the submarine. This was an early test case for a private new construction yard to repair an in-service submarine. Following the 2017 deployment, Helena went through about $265 million of work at HII's Newport News Shipbuilding, Va. Newport News wrapped its work in 2022. They propose now to retire the submarine, along with two other Los Angeles class boats next year.