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General Dynamics Electric Boat, Groton: 25 October 1989 24 June 1995 19 July 1997 Active in service Connecticut: SSN-22 14 September 1992 1 September 1997 11 December 1998 Active in service Jimmy Carter subgroup Jimmy Carter: SSN-23 General Dynamics Electric Boat, Groton: 5 December 1998 13 May 2004 19 February 2005 Active in service
The Navy specifically selected boat number "801" to be named Utah, even jumping over some other as-yet-unnamed boats, as 801 is the telephone area code for Utah's capital, Salt Lake City. [5] The keel laying ceremony took place 1 September 2021 at the Groton Facility of General Dynamics Electric Boat in Groton, Connecticut.
Vermont was part of a construction contract, worth US$17.6 billion, awarded to General Dynamics Electric Boat to build ten Virginia-class submarines, the first of the Block IV type. [8] On 20 October 2018, Vermont was christened with a bottle of Vermont sparkling apple wine during a ceremony held at the Electric Boat facility in Groton ...
The contract for the construction of Louisiana was awarded on 19 December 1990 and her keel was laid down at the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics in Groton, Connecticut, on 23 October 1992. She was launched on 27 July 1996, sponsored by Patricia O'Keefe, and commissioned on 6 September 1997 at Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay at Kings ...
There are two major companies in Groton: General Dynamics Electric Boat and Pfizer. The Electric Boat plant on the eastern shore of the Thames River employs 10,500 people in the community. Pfizer is one of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies, and the company maintains a 137-acre (0.55 km 2) research and development facility in Groton.
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.
The contract to build her was awarded to the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics Corporation in Groton, Connecticut, on 14 August 2003. Construction began in January 2004. [8] A keel-laying ceremony for the submarine was held at Electric Boat's Quonset Point facility in North Kingstown, Rhode Island, on 30 April 2007.
He remained head of the company until he retired in 1986, following pressure from a congressional subcommittee investigating fraud at General Dynamics, specifically the Electric Boat Division involving submarine contracts and cost overruns. [7] Upon his retirement, the investigation was halted and he remained on the board of directors through 1993.