Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
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 and engineering facility in New London, Connecticut.
Quonset Point (/ ˈkwɒnsɪt / ⓘ), also known simply as Quonset, is a small peninsula in Narragansett Bay in the town of North Kingstown, Rhode Island. Its name is widely known from the Quonset hut, which was first manufactured there.
The keel laying ceremony took place 24 August 2020 at the Quonset Point Facility of General Dynamics Electric Boat in North Kingstown, Rhode Island. [5] Idaho is projected to cost around $2.6 billion dollars and to be commissioned in 2025. [6][7]
The First Family would fly in and out of Quonset Point Naval Air Station, in North Kingstown, where they would frequently be met by hordes of onlookers.
Construction began in January 2004 at the Electric Boat Corporation, Groton, Connecticut and Quonset Point, Rhode Island facilities, for the construction of the straight sections. [10][12] The individual components were shipped to Newport News for final assembly. [10]
Workers are doing construction along the land portion of the cable route for Revolution Wind, Rhode Island's first utility-scale offshore wind farm.
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.
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 ...