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General Dynamics Electric Boat[2] (GDEB) is a subsidiary of General Dynamics Corporation. It has been the primary builder of submarines for the United States Navy for more than 100 years. The company's main facilities are a shipyard in Groton, Connecticut, a hull-fabrication and outfitting facility in Quonset Point, Rhode Island, and a design ...
In December 2008, General Dynamics Electric Boat Corporation was selected to design the Common Missile Compartment that will be used on the Ohio-class successor. [36] In 2012, the U.S. Navy announced plans for its SSBN(X) to share a common missile compartment (CMC) design with the Royal Navy's Dreadnought-class ballistic missile submarine. [5]
The United States has two yards capable of building nuclear-powered submarines: General Dynamics’ Electric Boat Division (GD/EB) of Groton, CT, and Quonset Point, RI; and Huntington Ingalls Industries’ Newport News Shipbuilding (HII/NNS), of Newport News, VA.
The MOD also enlisted the advice and expertise of General Dynamics Electric Boat through a U.S. Navy contract. [16] Eventually, a General Dynamics Electric Boat employee became the Astute Project Director at Barrow. [9] Audacious under construction
In 2021, construction began on District of Columbia at General Dynamics' Electric Boat facility in Quonset Point, Rhode Island. [4] A keel laying ceremony was held at the shipyard on 4 June 2022. [1] Completion of District of Columbia is scheduled for 2030, followed by her entry into service in 2031.
General Dynamics Corp.’s GD business unit, Electric Boat, recently clinched a modification contract to provide reactor plant planning yard support for nuclear-powered submarines.The award has ...
Construction on the first two boats of this block was expected to begin in 2019 but was pushed back to 2020, with contracts for long lead time material for SSN-802 and SSN-803 being awarded to General Dynamics Electric Boat.
Delivered this April, the ship will be the 23rd Virginia-class submarine co-produced by the General Dynamics Electric Boat and HII-Newport News Shipbuilding over the past 25 years for the Navy's ...