U.S. Navy

Navy Secretary John Phelan on Tuesday in Washington announced the creation of a Rapid Capabilities Office to speed weapons and shipbuilding programs and revealed a $448 million award to deploy an AI-enabled logistics and manufacturing platform, 'Ship OS,' across U.S. shipyards. Phelan said the Navy must 'act like we’re at war' to overcome submarine backlogs and shipyard bottlenecks as China scales AI-driven production; Ship OS will start in the submarine industrial base and expand to carriers and other platforms.