Money is appropriated to build up the shipbuilding industrial base
What the document says“In addition to amounts otherwise available, there are appropriated to the Secretary of Defense for fiscal year 2025, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to remain available until September 30, 2029--”
The section appropriates thirty-six sums to the Secretary of Defense for fiscal year 2025, available through September 30, 2029. Fifteen of them go to the industrial base and workforce: $250,000,000 to expand the accelerated Training in Defense Manufacturing program; $250,000,000 for domestic turbine generator production; $450,000,000 for additive manufacturing for wire production and machining capacity; $492,000,000 for next-generation shipbuilding techniques; $85,000,000 for United States-made steel plate; $50,000,000 for machining capacity for naval propellers; $110,000,000 for a rolled steel and fabrication facility; $400,000,000 to expand a collaborative campus for naval shipbuilding; $450,000,000 to apply autonomy and artificial intelligence to naval shipbuilding; $500,000,000 for advanced manufacturing techniques; $500,000,000 for additional dry-dock capability; $50,000,000 to expand cold spray repair technologies; $450,000,000 for maritime industrial workforce development; $750,000,000 for supplier development; and $250,000,000 for advanced manufacturing processes.
What the document actually says“In addition to amounts otherwise available, there are appropriated to the Secretary of Defense for fiscal year 2025, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to remain available until September 30, 2029--”
Money is set aside for the defense department. It is on top of what it already has. It is for fiscal year 2025 and can be spent through September 30, 2029.
Much of it goes into the yards themselves. It pays for tools, steel, dry docks and training. The rest buys ships and craft.
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