Author: Ramona Adams|| Date Published: September 22, 2017
General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) Electric Boat subsidiary has received a potential $5 billion contract to complete design work on the lead Columbia-class ballistic missile submarine for the U.S. Navy.
The Integrated Product and Process Development contract includes funds for the development of submarine components and technologies as well as manufacturing of a missile tube module and a reactor compartment bulkhead, the Defense Departmentsaid Thursday.
Electric Boat will carry out work in Groton, Connecticut; Newport News, Virginia; and Quonset, Rhode Island through December 2031.
DoD added the IPPD contract includes foreign military sales to the U.K. and requires Electric Boat to produce strategic weapon support system kits for the country’s submarines.
The Navy will obligate $175.1 million at the time of award from its fiscal 2017 shipbuilding and conversion funds; fiscal 2017 research, design, test and evaluation funds; and U.K. funds.
General Dynamics said Thursday it is scheduled to begin construction of the first Columbia-class submarine in the fall of 2020.
The military branch seeks to procure a total of 12 new SSBNs.
Chuck Brooks is the president of Brooks Consulting International and one of Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Experts. Most people associate the Department of…
CGI Federal has been tapped to continue supporting GSA’s financial systems environment The Momentum-as-a-Service model bundles software licensing, hosting and…
Helton will oversee infrastructure modernization, facilities, environmental health and safety, and security at the shipyard Helton arrives from HII’s Ingalls…