This document discusses the future of shipbuilding and the driving forces necessitating changes, including: 1. Hard times in the shipbuilding industry and need to remove obstacles and reevaluate challenges. 2. New customer requirements around the environment, automation, and new markets. 3. Evolving industry trends like distributed work, replacing retiring workers, and increased automation. 4. Broad innovation enabled by technology advances and feedback relationships allowing more mature solutions. The future of shipbuilding is predicted to involve infinite computing power, generative designs, virtual reality, digital twins, cyber-physical systems, automation, IoT, and 3D printing transforming engineering design, detail design, and manufacturing over the next 15 years.