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| Navy scraps Biden-era submarine contract as overhaul costs surge toward $3B |
| 2026-04-11 |
| [FoxNews] The Navy is canceling a long-delayed overhaul of the USS Boise after costs ballooned to nearly $3 billion, with Secretary of the Navy John Phelan saying the submarine no longer made financial or strategic sense to repair. The Los Angeles-class attack submarine already had consumed roughly $800 million and would require another $1.9 billion to complete — despite offering only about 20% of its remaining service life, Phelan said in an interview with Fox News Digital. Instead, the Navy plans to redirect funding and skilled labor toward building and delivering newer Virginia- and Columbia-class submarines, part of a broader push to accelerate ship production and overhaul troubled acquisition programs. "At some point, you just cut your losses and move on," Phelan said. |
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