Labor Market Impacts on Navy Shipbuilding & Fleet Efficiency

Abstract

The Department of Defense relies on a range of highly specialized—and in many cases, dwindling—skill sets in order to deliver critically needed military capabilities and weapons systems. In order to achieve its long-term shipbuilding plan, the Navy requires a data-driven understanding of the labor economics associated with commercial shipyards and relevant labor categories. In this decision science analysis, Govini conducts a labor market analysis that assesses the current and future balance between the supply of and demand for labor in the specific, critical trades that are requirements of shipbuilding.