Strategy for distributed shipbuilding

(a) Strategy Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Navy shall develop and implement a strategy to increase distributed shipbuilding. (b) Briefing Not later than 270 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall provide to the congressional defense committees a briefing on the strategy required under subsection (a). (c) Distributed shipbuilding defined In this section, the term distributed shipbuilding means, with respect to a vessel, the construction of modules of the vessel— (1) by one or more entities that are independent from the operators of the shipyard at which the final assembly of the vessel occurs; and (2) at a facility that is located separately from, or that is located within but is not operated by, the shipyard at which the final assembly of the vessel occurs.