Navy budget cuts hit Kittery shipyard
Budget-cutting measures enacted by the U.S. Navy have frozen civilian hiring and delayed all modernization and surface ship maintenance work at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard.
Foster's Daily Democrat reported that the cuts are expected to affect 3,000 employees in the Navy's shipyard work force, part of a measure to address the Navy's expected budget shortfall in 2013.
The move suspends all modernization work on piers, buildings, barracks and other facilities through September 2013. Starting Feb. 15, all private-sector surface ship maintenance work scheduled for the third and fourth quarter of 2013 will also be canceled, the paper reported.
Civilian hiring was frozen at the shipyard in January and all temporary employees are slated to be released at the end of their existing contracts.
The paper also reported the cuts mean a 10% reduction in operating support for the Portsmouth shipyard and a 50% reduction in facilities sustainment spending.
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