Navy cuts $3B submarine overhaul program after nearly a decade

U.S. Navy – (Web Desk) – The U.S. Navy has finally pulled the plug on the USS Boise. The submarine has been sitting at the dock since 2015 doing nothing. What started as a routine repair job turned into a complete disaster.

The costs kept climbing. The Navy has already spent around $800 million on it. To finish the job they would need another $1.9 billion. And after all that spending the sub only has about 20 percent of its useful life left.

Navy Secretary John Phelan put it simply. He told Fox News Digital that sometimes you just have to stop throwing money at a problem and walk away.

The total bill was creeping toward $3 billion. For a submarine that hasn’t been out at sea in nearly a decade. At some point the numbers just stop making sense.

But due to delays at Navy shipyards, it became a dry dock.

In 2016, it lost its full operational certification in 2016 and its ability to dive in 2017, effectively sidelining it from combat operations for nearly a decade.

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Under the Biden administration, the first rework contract that was made in 2024 was estimated at around $1.2 billion.

Despite starting the work, repairs were not projected to finish until 2029. In other words, the submarine would be out of action for 15 years.