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Virginia-class submarine. Photo by AdobeStock
Mar 28, 2025

General Dynamics subsidiary wins $1B Navy contract

A Connecticut-based subsidiary of Reston-headquartered Fortune 500 contractor General Dynamics was recently awarded a $1 billion contract modification from the U.S. Navy to purchase long lead time materials for Virginia-class Block VI submarines. The subsidiary, General Dynamics Electric Boat, announced the award on Tuesday. The company designs, builds, repairs and modernizes nuclear submarines fo[...]

Mar 13, 2025

Inside South Carolina operations of the largest military shipbuilder in the US

A new division of the largest military shipbuilder in the U.S. is in full swing after establishing operations in South Carolina just two months ago. Newport News Shipbuilding-Charleston Operations, a facility in a division of Virginia-based Huntington Ingalls Industries, better known as HII, began in Goose Creek roughly 60 days ago. In two days, the […]

Apr 29, 2024

Subs going Down Under

A 2021 agreement between Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States should reap benefits in Hampton Roads soon. Dubbed AUKUS for the three participating nations, the international agreement calls for the U.S. and the U.K. to share nuclear propulsion technology with Australia, with the Royal Australian Navy set to acquire at least eight nuclear-powered […]

After graduating a Navy-funded manufacturing training program managed by the Institute for Advanced Learning in Research in Danville last year, Madeline Davis now works as a CNC machinist for Fairlead Integrated in Portsmouth, where she makes metal parts for Navy submarines. Photo by Mark Rhodes
Apr 27, 2023

Propulsion system

Madeline Davis has never set foot on a Navy submarine, so she doesn’t get to see the products she makes in action. Davis is a CNC (computer numerical control) machinist at Fairlead Integrated in Portsmouth, where she makes metal parts for the Navy’s silent service. The defense contractor supplies shipboard integrated parts, including for the […]

Apr 11, 2023

HII announces more than $1.8B in contracts

Newport News-based Huntington Ingalls Industries Inc. on Tuesday announced more than $1.8 billion in contracts awarded to its mission technologies and shipbuilding divisions. The company’s McLean-based Mission Technologies was awarded a $1.3 billion U.S. African Command Personnel Recovery Enterprise Services and Solutions (PRESS) task order, which has a one-year base period with up to six [&[...]

Dec 23, 2022

General Dynamics’ Electric Boat lands $5.1B submarine contract

General Dynamics Corp.’s Groton, Connecticut-based Electric Boat Corp. has received a $5.1 billion contract modification for the Columbia-class ballistic-missile submarine program, the Pentagon announced Wednesday. The contract includes missile long-lead material and missile tube manufacturing, advance procurement and construction, material procurement, production backup, and planned equipme[...]

Oct 5, 2022

U.S. Navy to open training center in Danville

The Navy on Wednesday launched an additive manufacturing “center of excellence” to train students in defense manufacturing at Danville’s Institute for Advanced Learning and Research, as well as announcing a larger training facility to be built nearby. The center of excellence is part of the 16-week Accelerated Training in Defense Manufacturing (ATDM) program that started [&hellip[...]

Aug 4, 2022

BWXT appoints new president of nuclear operations

The new president of BWX Technology’s Nuclear Operations Group Inc. spent three decades working for the Navy as a civilian. Sharon H. Smoot started her new position Aug. 1. She is responsible for the BWXT subsidiary’s mission to provide a range of nuclear components and services, including manufacturing reactor components for Navy submarines and aircraft […]

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