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- [Reporter] In the halls
of Congress and the Pentagon

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when it comes to revitalizing

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and revamping the defense industrial base,

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there's no bigger topic than shipbuilding.

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- As you know, we're
desperately in need of ships.

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Our ships are, some of
them have gotten old

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and tired and obsolete,

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and we're gonna go the
exact opposite direction.

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- [Reporter] The US
wants more ships faster.

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And with the pressure rising,

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Leonardo DRS recently cut the ribbon

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on a brand-new facility.

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The product, new propulsion
systems for submarines

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for both the American Navy
and international customers.

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A range of officials were on hand

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for the official opening of
the building on January 23rd.

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- This facility is a direct result

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of what can be achieved when industry,

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government and community work together

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with a shared sense of purpose.

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The work that will take
place here is critical.

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This facility expands our
ability to deliver complex,

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high-quality submarine
and surface ship products

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critical to the readiness
and effectiveness

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of the US and its allied navy fleets.

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- You walk in, you see a giant building,

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you see cranes, pretty obvious stuff.

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There's some really cool
things in this building.

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These cranes, for example,

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technology from the automobile industry,

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we can lift giant motors
and flip them around,

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which currently we cannot do

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where we build them today.

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Millions of dollars in tooling
to set them on the ground

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and move them around.

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So this increases our production pace,

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reduces cost, all a win-win.

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That's just phase one,

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which we're standing in today,

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it's about 150,000 square feet.

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Phase two, other side of that wall,

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it's another 70,000 square feet.

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We've already started
continuing our investment

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to support final assembly and test

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of steam turbine generators

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for Virginia class submarines.

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That's off and running.

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- We're bringing you a
brand-new manufacturing facility

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that makes the main propulsion motors

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on our Columbia class submarines.

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Those are the most lethal

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and powerful warships ever created.

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The firepower from a single
ballistic missile submarine

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is more firepower than was unleashed

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in all of World War II.

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But that sea power is more
than just those navy ships.

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It materializes in that industrial base,

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the shipbuilders, the
vendors, the contractors,

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the engineers that are
represented here in this room.

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The Secretary of the Navy

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has been direct about the need for urgency

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in increasing the shipbuilding capacity.

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Revitalizing the industrial base

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is not a problem we can solve
slowly or incrementally.

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We must scale with great
speed and great urgency.

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This manufacturing facility will support

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the Department of Navy's
top acquisition priority,

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which is the Columbia class,

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and it will also support
the Virginia class,

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with the main propulsion motor
and the turbine generators

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adding resiliency,
capacity and competition

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in that industrial base

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is key to a strong navy
and a strong nation.

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- [Reporter] Leonardo
president and CEO John Baylouny

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said his company could see the demand

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for naval components rising

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and were able to respond quickly.

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- We didn't need the administration

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to tell us that we needed to
expand the industrial base.

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You could see that coming for years,

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that the submarine industrial
base needs to expand.

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We stepped up and did it.

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This is exactly what the
administration's looking for.

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It's looking for us to step forward,

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invest in facilitation,

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invest in capacity expansion.

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We've done exactly that for this.

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And the submarine industrial base

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is one of the key areas

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that needs expansion.

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Today, we make about 1 1/4
to 1 1/2 submarines per year.

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We need to build three to
3 1/2 submarines per year.

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This is exactly the kind of investment

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that our industry needs to make

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to be able to reach the
goal of three to 3 1/2.

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There's a lot of impediments
to shipbuilding today,

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all the way into the supply chain,

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all the way from labor and manpower

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to be able to build the ships.

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The skillset required to
do that is tremendous.

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But it goes all the way
down into the supply basin.

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And that that's where we sit,

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we're not building ships,

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we're building components for ships.

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We're building the propulsion system

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for the Columbia class

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for the next generation of ships.

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And so the investment has
to be all the way down

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in the industrial base,

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not just at the shipbuilder.

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- [Reporter] Officials also
gave "Defense News Weekly"

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a tour of the new facility,

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showing how the process will work

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to create the massive
submarine propulsion systems.

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- So here we are in the receiving area

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of our new Goose Creek,
South Carolina facility.

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In this area, we can receive
very large pieces of equipment.

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We manufacture very large
pieces of equipment, very heavy.

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So the receiving area
has a large entry door,

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very large cranes

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for being able to take
them off the machinery

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that's bringing them into the facility,

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storage area for smaller items,

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and then they're offloaded for inspection,

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and then further production

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as they move down the facility

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into the larger production
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You can see the long travel lane

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that progresses down the
length of the facility

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for moving equipment.

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And then the area to the right,

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which is an unfinished
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for doing actual assembly
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It's set up so that the larger cranes

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are at the furthest end

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and the smaller cranes are at this end,

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because as we build the equipment up

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from the parts that we
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it'll increase in weight

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as it moves down the facility

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and the machine is
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What I'm standing on
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for doing the final factory
acceptance test of the motor.

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So the motor will be up

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mounted on these specialty
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where the motor's bolted
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and operated in this facility.

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The tests is immediately behind me.

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So the motor will be finally
finished in this area

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and tested in this area

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to prove that it's ready
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So the motor is final tested here.

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the motor moves into this area,

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where it'll be mounted

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on a large trolley-like,
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that can carry the motor over the ground,

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its full weight,

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and move it onto a barge

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at a barge slip that's outside
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So as it moves through this traverse lane,

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it'll be prepped to ship in this area

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and then taken out the
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towards the barge slip

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where it'll be put onto a barge

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and taken to Quonset Point, Rhode Island,

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at least the Columbia
motor in that application.