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USS Omaha (SSN-692), a Los Angeles-class submarine, was the third ship of the United States Navy to be named for Omaha, Nebraska.The contract to build her was awarded to the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics Corporation in Groton, Connecticut on 31 January 1971 and her keel was laid down on 27 January 1973.
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.
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.
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] The company was dissolved in 2000 and its functions were relocated to Electric Boat's main facility in Groton, Connecticut. [3] [4]
Isaac Leopold Rice (February 22, 1850 – November 2, 1915) was a German-born Jewish American businessman, investor, musicologist, author, and chess patron. [1] As part of a successful career in the manufacturing industry, in 1899 he acquired the Holland Torpedo Boat Company, which was renamed the Electric Boat Company and produced submarines for the U.S. and British navies.
General Dynamics Electric Boat: Lafayette: 28 December 1961 27 April 1963 9 April 1964 30 August 1990 December 2023 La Jolla: SSN-701 General Dynamics Electric Boat: Los Angeles: 16 October 1976 11 August 1979 24 October 1981 15 November 2019 Active San Francisco: SSN-711 Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Co. Los Angeles: 26 May 1977 27 ...
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.
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]