Contractor remedies and Navy responsibility

Could legal action against contractors or state takeover of yards help resolve shipbuilding failures, as in wartime?

Mercogliano agrees with Seidel's historical comparison, but argues that contractor remedies also have to confront Navy requirements and oversight.

Jamie Seidel raises reports of legal action against failed contractors and nationalization as possible responses to shipbuilding problems. He asks whether wartime governments combined the two and whether that experience is relevant. Sal Mercogliano agrees with the historical outline and acknowledges that yards bear responsibility. His objection to blaming contractors alone is the pattern of delays and overruns across several yards: the Navy is the common participant. His answer therefore turns on who controls the requirements and whether the same management problems would survive a change of ownership. Seidel's wartime comparison receives agreement, without a detailed case study of a particular takeover.