(File Photo of Congressman Chris Deluzio)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Washington, D.C.) According to a release from Congressman Chris Deluzio’s office, Deluzio announced the core pieces of his 2024 “Shipbuilding Innovation Act” were put in two sections of the SHIPS for America Act. Section 501 makes a program for the United States Maritime Administration to have an investment in U.S. shipyards and for construction of U.S. ships that are built already. Section 521 makes a program to increase and evolve development and research for processes of manufacturing and technologies that are new for the maritime industry.