A digital platform connecting Navy shipyards and manufacturers — from RFQ discovery through Release-to-Work — so vendors can build parts, not decipher processes.
The RTW Crisis
The Navy needs a 32% fleet increase, but shipyards can't see beyond an 8-week planning horizon. The breakdown isn't workforce — it's Release-to-Work.
Reliable build plans at major U.S. shipyards don't extend beyond 8-10 weeks. Beyond that horizon, work is planned by workstation loading rather than named work packages — a manual, error-prone process.
Only 5,000 small and mid-sized manufacturers serve U.S. Shipbuilding out of 60,000-70,000 capable firms nationwide. Vendors leave because today's system forces their best people to decipher processes instead of making parts.
Parts arrive late, incomplete, or defective — installed just to keep the schedule, then ripped out and reworked at far greater cost. Costs can be an order of magnitude higher by the time work is complete.
