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Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Shipbuilding and Logistics)

civilian office of the US Navy

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ4809043 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Shipbuilding and Logistics) was a civilian office in the United States Department of the Navy. The Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Shipbuilding and Logistics) oversaw the building of ships for the United States Navy and other logistical matters.

The office of Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Shipbuilding and Logistics) was abolished in 1990, when it was merged with the office of Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Research, Engineering and Systems) to form the new office of Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Research, Development and Acquisitions).

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“Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Shipbuilding and Logistics)” enters the record as civilian office of the US Navy. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Assistant, Secretary and Navy can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Shipbuilding and Logistics)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.