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July 2025
Past Event
How Congress Can Rebuild US Shipbuilding and Boost Maritime Security

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Inquiries: tmagnuson@hudson.org.

How Congress Can Rebuild US Shipbuilding and Boost Maritime Security

Past Event
Hudson Institute
July 31, 2025
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Arleigh Burke–class guided-missile destroyer USS Chafee (DDG 90) sails in formation during the Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) exercise on July 28, 2022. (DVIDS)
31
July 2025
Past Event

Event will also air live on this page.

 

 

Inquiries: tmagnuson@hudson.org.

Speakers:
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Austin Gray

Cofounder and CSO, Blue Water Autonomy

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Capt. Christian Lee (Ret.)

Principal, Cornerstone Government Affairs

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Matthew Paxton

President, Shipbuilders Council of America

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Scott Sloan

President and CEO, StratasCorp Technologies

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Mike Smith

President and CEO, Hanwha Defense USA Inc.

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Lawrence Ryder

Vice President, Business Development and External Relations, Austal USA

Moderator:
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Bryan Clark

Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Defense Concepts and Technology

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Michael Roberts

Senior Fellow, Center for Defense Concepts and Technology

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For decades the United States Navy’s and Coast Guard’s fleets have been shrinking despite their increasing necessity. From the Gulf of America to the  Bab-el-Mandeb Strait and beyond, US maritime forces have had to defend America and its allies with older and fewer ships and aircraft. The recently passed One Big Beautiful Bill Act will inject billions of dollars into the US shipbuilding and maritime industrial base, which can help to restore US Navy and Coast Guard capacity. But turning funding into capability will not be easy. The US maritime industry needs to address worker shortages, crumbling infrastructure, and inadequate commercial demand.

Join Hudson Senior Fellows Bryan Clark and Michael Roberts for a discussion with government and industry leaders about the challenges the US Navy and Coast Guard face amid modernization efforts and how new legislation and regulation can help restore America’s maritime superiority.

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