Put Out to Sea or Pasture?

What is going on with the Navy? Their procurement/construction system seems to be an even worse wreck than the Air Force’s. Read:

The U.S. Navy has yet another ship building disaster on its hands. This time it involves quality control, or, rather, that lack of same. A weld inspector at the Newport News shipyard was recently found to be falsifying the inspection of welding jobs on four Virginia class submarines and a Nimitz class carrier. Some 10,000 welds have to be re-inspected, as these are how many the now dismissed inspector handled in four years on the job. Each Virginia class sub has about 300,000 welds that have to be inspected.

This comes on the heels of all kinds of problems (and ultimate cancelation) of the LCS, and cost overruns on pretty much everything else.