Senate legislation, introduced on Wednesday, calls for a $25 billion investment in public and private shipyards that build and maintain the U.S. Navy fleet. The bill allocates allocate $21 billion under the Defense Production Act […]
Shipbuilder Huntington Ingalls Industries announced a contract on Monday to build a 10th Virginia-class submarine for the U.S. Navy. Its Newport News Shipbuilding division, partnered with General Dynamics Electric Boat, received a $22 billion contract […]
WASHINGTON (GDC) — The U.S. Navy inked a deal with General Dynamics Electric Boat on Dec. 2 to be the lead contractor for the newest iteration of the Virginia-class attack submarine. The largest shipbuilding contract in the history of the […]
Two Chinese research papers that emerged in early April through social media provide further evidence of significant technological developments that may be incorporated in the design of the next generation of nuclear submarines for China’s […]
WASHINGTON — The last of the U.S. Navy’s eight Block III Virginia-class submarines has joined the fleet, according to a Navy news release. The attack submarine Delaware didn’t have its formal commissioning ceremony because of the ongoing […]
Lockheed Martin clinched a modification contract for submarine-launched ballistic missile (model) Trident II D5 production and deployed systems support. Work related to the deal is scheduled to be over by September 2024. Valued at $601.3 […]
The US military deployed a new submarine-launched low-yield nuclear weapon, something the Pentagon sees as critical to countering the threat posed by Russia’s arsenal of smaller tactical nukes. Several former high-ranking administration officials, however, have […]
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