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Navy/USMC

BAE Nabs Follow-On Block V VPM Tube Contract

Thursday, July 25th, 2019

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BAE Nabs Follow-On Block V VPM Tube Contract

The future USS Indiana (SSN-789), a Virginia-class submarine, is launched into the James River and moved to a submarine pier for final outfitting, testing, and certification. (Photo: Huntington Ingalls Industries)

BAE Systems won a follow-on contract to produce 28 more payload tubes for the Navy’s Block V Virginia-class submarines with Virginia Payload Modules (VPMs), the company said Thursday The contract was awarded by General Dynamics Electric Boat [GD], one of the submarine prime contractors, in February and was disclosed this week. Virginia-class boats are built jointly by GD and Huntington Ingalls Industries’ [HII] Newport News Shipbuilding with each company building some parts of each vessel then take turns building the…

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