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• MARAD
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• U.S. Merchant Marine Academy (USMMA)
• U.S. Navy
• U.S. Coast Guard
• Military Sealift Command
• Maritime Institue of Technology & Graduate Studies (MITAGS)
• National Shipbuilding Research Program (NSRP)
• U.S. Center for Maritime Innovation (USCMI)
• Shipbuilding CoBot Alliance
• Painting Center of Excellence (PCoE)
• Shipbuilders Council of America (SCA)
• American Shipbuilding Suppliers Association
• American Society of Naval Engineers (ASNE)
• Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers (SNAME)

• NNS Marine Trades Trainee Programs
• NAVSEA Apprenticeships: Earn While You Learn
• NAVFAC Atlantic Apprenticeship Program
• Ingalls Apprentice School
• Bath & Iron Works (BIW) Apprentice School
• Hanwha Philly Shipyard Apprenticeship Program
• Fincantieri Marine Group (FMG) Apprenticeship Program

• Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) - Builds aircraft carriers (Newport News), submarines and surface combatants (Ingalls Shipbuilding)
• General Dynamics - Owns Bath Iron Works (destroyers), Electric Boat (submarines) and NASSCO (amphibious ships, tankers)
  • General Dynamics Main Site
  • General Dynamics Bath Iron Works
  • General Dynamics Electric Boat
  • General Dynamics NASSCO
• Fincantieri Marine Group - Builds naval vessels like Littoral Combat Ships and Coast Guard cutters
• Austal USA - Specializes in aluminum-hulled vessels, including high-speed patrol craft and LCS
• Hanwha Philly Shipyard - Now part of the Hanwha family, one of South Korea's largest and most respected business groups, renowned globally for leadership in shipbuilding and defense technology
• Fincantieri Bay Shipbuilding - Builds and repairs Coast Guard and commercial vessels like OSVs and LNG barges
• Bollinger Shipyards - Builds patrol boats, tugs, and provides vessel repair
• Vigor Industrial - Provides new builds and ship repair services
• Eastern Shipbuilding Group - Builds tugs, offshore supply vessels, and Coast Guard cutters

• Irving Shipbuilding (Halifax, NS) - Known as Canada's "National Shipbuilder," it builds Arctic Offshore Patrol Ships (AOPS) and future Surface Combatants
• Seaspan ULC (Vancouver, BC) - Operates Vancouver Shipyards and Victoria Shipyards, specializing in non-combat vessels for the Coast Guard and Navy
• Chantier Davie Canada Inc. (Lévis, QC) - Canada's largest and oldest shipbuilder, focused on commercial vessels, ferries, and, more recently, naval vessels
• Ontario Shipyards (Hamilton, Port Weller, Thunder Bay, ON) - The largest ship repair and shipbuilding company on the Great Lakes

• Metal Shark (franklin & Jeanerette, LA) - Metal Shark’s Sharktech Autonomous Vessels division serves as a technology integrator, merging software and hardware to develop turn-key, “check the box, get the option” autonomous-capable craft.
• Saronic Technologies (Austin & Brownsville, TX) - Providing the most advanced and capable autonomous vessels in the maritime domain.

The Jones Act, or Merchant Marine Act of 1920, is a U.S. law mandating that goods transported between American ports must use U.S.-built, -owned, -flagged, and -crewed vessels.
The Jones Act: Debating the Lingering Effects of a 100-Year-Old Law