Austal USA leaders sees 'pretty good time for shipbuilding despite uncertainties.'

Excerpt from ALNews: https://www.al.com/news/mobile/2025/09/austal-usa-leader-sees-pretty-good-time-for-shipbuilding-despite-uncertainties.html

"'I mean, there are elements of uncertainty,' he said. 'There’s the positive of a lot of focus on shipbuilding. [Federal budget] reconciliation provided a lot of funding for not just ships, but infrastructure, training, technology insertion. [That’s] all very positive. I’m not worried about program cancellations. Here, I think we’re on solid ground. There is uncertainty over, you know, are some programs going to get canceled? There’s a little bit of uncertainty over, you know, what, what the focus on Korean shipbuilding is going to do. Is that going to have an impact on, you know, domestic production of Navy ships?'"