(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—
by one or more entities that are independent from the operators of the shipyard at which the final assembly of the vessel occurs; and
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.