​ This white paper examines the critical workforce and infrastructure challenges facing the United States shipbuilding industry and the growing risks these challenges pose to national security, economic resilience, and maritime readiness.   It explores a comprehensive set of intervention strategies to address skilled labor shortages, instructional capacity gaps, outdated shipyard systems, and declining public awareness. Central to this analysis is the SAIL Framework —a four-pillar approach...

This white paper examines the severe shortage of healthcare workers in the United States and explores viable intervention programs to address this workforce crisis. One of the key intervention programs explored is utilizing the H-1B visa program to recruit qualified foreign healthcare professionals, which is a streamlined, reliable pathway to fill critical staffing gaps, thereby enhancing healthcare delivery and helping to meet the increasing demands of the U.S. healthcare system.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 14, 2025   Washington, D.C. — The Smart Development Institute (SDI) has launched the Shipbuild Talent Hub , a new initiative aimed at supporting capacity building for the U.S. Shipbuilding Industry through workforce development and augmentation as well as infrastructure innovation through digital transformation.      This initiative supports the federal government’s focus on revitalizing the Shipbuilding Industry in the United States through recent actions including...