CEO Pierroberto Folgiero said the Italian company could "support a kind of renaissance of shipbuilding" in the U.S. that could even involve icebreakers.
“We can make up the gap by going under the sea,” an Italian defense official said, referring to Europe falling behind in the extraction of vital resources.
Italy is lobbying France and Germany to back a plan for European tax breaks and financing for joint European defense procurement and development programs.