U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin hopes her latest efforts to “Buy American” can be beneficial for Wisconsin’s manufacturing and shipbuilding hubs like Sturgeon Bay. Reintroduced last month, the Made in America Shipbuilding Act aims to strengthen Buy American requirements for the federal government’s purchase of ships. It would expand current law to cover all federal agencies, all classes of ships, and component parts. Baldwin says it could have a positive impact on Wisconsin’s shipbuilding communities.

She says some but not all federal agencies have strong Buy American policies for their ships. Bay Shipbuilding will be assisting its sister companies in Green Bay and Marinette to work on a new project commissioned by the U.S. Navy earlier this year. The Democratic senator from Wisconsin originally pushed the act in 2018.