ASSA Asking US Senators to Co-Sponsor FFG-Frigate ProcurementAvailable for download below are two amendments that US Senator Tammy Baldwin (WI) has filed to S. 4049, the FY2021 NDAA that SASC report...
House Appropriators to Consider Defense Spending Bill July 8thBy Tony Bertuca/Inside Defense The House Appropriations Committee plans to mark up the fiscal year 2021 defense spending bill on July 8, ...
Chairman Smith and Ranking Member Thornberry Announce Markup Schedule for Fiscal Year 2021 National WASHINGTON, D.C.– Representatives Adam Smith (D-Wash.) and Mac Thornberry (R-TX), Chairman and Ranking Member of the House Armed Services...
The Narrowing of the Defense-Industrial Base Has Reached Critical LevelsBy: Stephen P. Bucci/Defense News The Senate Armed Services Committee has finally given the green light to purchase two new missile subs...
Rep. John Garamendi's Statement on the 100th Anniversary of the Jones ActJONES ACT 100TH ANNIVERSARY HON. JOHN GARAMENDI OF CALIFORNIA IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Thursday, June 4, 2020 Mr. GARAMENDI. Madam...
House Tentatively Aims to Pass NDAA by AugustBy John M. Donnelly and Katherine Tully-McManus/CQ News The House Armed Services Committee is tentatively looking to report a defense aut...
Bryan Clark Announced as Speaker for ASSA Offsite at Naval AcademyBryan Clark is a Senior Fellow with the Hudson Institute and co-author of "Strengthening the U. S. Defense Maritime Industrial Base." He...
Shipbuilding Suppliers Need More Than Market Forces to Stay AfloatBryan Clark & Timothy A. Walton/Defense News The U.S. Navy’s award this month of the contract for its new class of frigates starts the ve...
Wicker, Hyde-Smith Laud $108 MM Special Ops Contract to Gulfport, Miss. ShipbuilderUnited States Marine, Inc. Lands Contract to Build USSOCOM Vessels WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) and Cindy Hyde...
ASSA Presents The Honorable Thad Cochran Leadership Award to The Honorable John GaramendiWashington, District of Columbia – February 18, 2020 – The American Shipbuilding Suppliers Association (ASSA) presented the 2020 Honorabl...
HYDE-SMITH PRAISES $1.5 BILLION NAVY CONTRACT TO KEEP MISS. SHIPBUILDING LINE STRONGWASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.), a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, today praised the award of a...
Palazzo Asks President to Keep Jones Act Intact During CoronavirusWashington, DC - Congressman Steven Palazzo (MS-4) sent a letter to President Donald Trump asking him to continue standing in strong supp...
House lawmakers lay out defense bill plans in face of COVID-19 limitationsHouse Armed Services Committee leaders say they hope to have the fiscal year 2021 defense authorization bill ready by May 1, though the C...
Thornberry unveils Pentagon reform packageWASHINGTON — Rep. Mac Thornberry, the Texas Republican serving as ranking member on the House Armed Services Committee, unveiled proposed...
H.R. 2740 OPED: “Buy American” Standard to Protect U.S. Shipbuilding Suppliers from Unfair Foreign CFor more than 80 years, Buy-American statutes have protected U.S. jobs and were specifically created so that any given product with more ...
POLICY BRIEF: ASSA and US Manufacturers Address US Policy of Foreign Preference for Critical ComponeASSA and US Manufacturers Address US Policy of Foreign Preference for Critical Components on US Navy Ships Background: As the Fiscal Yea...
ASSA Supports House Measure to Defend US Shipbuilding Suppliers from Foreign Manufacturers ASSA stanWASHINGTON, District of Columbia – October 23, 2019 – The American Shipbuilding Suppliers Association (ASSA), the premier advocacy group ...
