Over the last decade, the U.S. Navy has spent $3.4 billion on attack submarines waiting for maintenance, sometimes for years ...

15 attack submarines could be left sitting idle for more than 14,000 days waiting for shipyard space, costing the Navy over ...

$3.1 billion is the projected cost of operating and supporting 15 U.S. Navy attack submarines that could sit idle while ...

The following is the Aug. 27, 2026, Government Accountability Office report Navy Readiness: Actions Needed to Address Costly Attack Submarine Maintenance Challenges. From the Report The U.S. Navy’s ...

Inactive idle time describes when a [U.S. Navy] attack submarine designated for decommissioning cannot be inducted into a dry dock in a shipyard. As a result, the submarine and its crew must remain ...

The GAO said submarines are forced to spend idle time in port instead of being deployed or conducting training due to long ...

Maintenance delays for U.S. submarines have "resulted in an estimated $3.4 billion in costs to sustain" crews and boats that ...

Too many of the U.S. Navy's attack submarines are sitting idle across shipyards awaiting maintenance and decommissioning, according to a new report ...

The USS Daniel Webster, a decomissioned naval submarineTHE SUB IS HEADING OUT NOW. WILL NE OFF THE END OF SULLIVAN'S ISLAND LATER THIS AFTERNOON. PIC FROM ARMY ...

The vast majority of the Navy submarine maintenance has occurred at public shipyards over the last decade, which, according to a recent Government Accountability Office report found, has only gotten ...

The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) has now released a public version of a classified report released in June ...