According to a PR published by General Dynamics Electric Boat on August 12, 2022, the business unit of General dynamics, announced it was awarded a modification of the previously awarded U.S. Navy contract for engineering, technical, design, and planning yard support for operational strategic and attack submarines.
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Los Angeles-class fast-attack submarine USS Pasadena (SSN 752) surfaces in the Beaufort Sea kicking off Ice Exercise 2022. (Picture source: US Navy)
The contract modification has a value of $236,182,606. Work will be performed in Groton, Connecticut; Kings Bay, Georgia; Bangor, Washington; Pearl Harbor, Hawaii; North Kingston, Rhode Island; and Newport, Rhode Island, and is expected to be completed by September 2023.
General Dynamics Electric Boat (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.
During the World War I era, the firm and its subsidiaries (notably the Electric Launch Company, or Elco) built 85 submarines via subcontractors and 722 submarine chasers for the US Navy, and 580 80-foot motor launches for the British Royal Navy.
General Dynamics Electric Boat built every unique US Navy submarine after 1931, excepting Halibut (SSGN-587) and the purely experimental Albacore (AGSS-569) and Dolphin (AGSS-555).
