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Her keel was laid down on 15 August 1961 by General Dynamics Electric Boat of Groton, Connecticut. On 10 April 1963, Thresher , the lead ship of Greenling' s class , was lost due to severe design flaws in her non-nuclear piping systems.
In 1998 General Dynamics bought NASSCO in a $415 million deal. [18] On October 31, 2011, General Dynamics-NASSCO acquired Metro Machine Corp, a surface-ship repair company in Norfolk, Virginia, and renamed it NASSCO-Norfolk. [19] The company had been conducting ship repairs and conversions for the U.S. Navy since 1972.
At AUSA 2016 annual meeting, General Dynamics unveiled 120mm Griffin Technology Demonstrator (TD) as a "conversation starter" for the US Army Mobile Protected Firepower (MPF) program. [6] MPF is a light tracked vehicle intended to provide support of large caliber direct fire for Infantry Brigade Combat Team.
General Dynamics is the Army's prime contractor for WIN-T, [15] which is part of General Dynamics Mission Systems' tactical voice and data communications systems, The Soldier's Network. [16] Increment 1, now fully deployed, began fielding in 2004 and completed fielding in 2012. [ 17 ]
In February 21, 1952, the Electric Boat Company was reorganized as General Dynamics Corporation under John Jay Hopkins, thus ending the Electric Boat Company. General Dynamics continued to build submarines for the US Navy. Under General Dynamics, a series of nuclear-powered submarines were built, starting with the first the USS Nautilus .
In the 20th century the company manufactured electric motors and generators for numerous submarines built by Electric Boat as well as naval and civilian boats built by Elco. The company retained this function as a division of General Dynamics Corporation when that company was formed by a reorganization of Electric Boat in 1952. [2]
International Directory of Company Histories, Volume 86 under General Dynamics/Electric Boat Corporation, July 2007, St. James Press/Thomposon Gale Group, pp. 136–139 The Defender, The Story of General Dynamics , by Roger Franklin.
On 1 December 1976 General Dynamics Electric Boat (GDEB) submitted a $544 million claim related to its contract for 18 Los-Angeles-class submarines; the contractor alleged the USN made an undue amount of design changes while the government argued that Electric Boat mismanaged its operations. [10]