The Navy’s AI bet to fix its submarine bottleneck

The answer to America’s submarine bottleneck, the U. S. Navy has decided, lies as much in software as it does in steel. A new multibillion-dollar facility in Cherokee, Alabama, aims to harness AI and robotics to build submarine components faster and reliably. The automated “factory of the future” will produce parts for the Navy’s Virginia -class attack submarines and Columbia -class ballistic missile submarines, both central to the U. fleet. It will cost $2.4B to develop.