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Nuclear Modernization

COVID-19 Cramped Columbia Tube Work, Navy Program Officer Says

Monday, June 1st, 2020

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COVID-19 Cramped Columbia Tube Work, Navy Program Officer Says

Artist rendering of the future Columbia-class nuclear-armed ballistic missile submarine (SSBN), which will replace the Ohio-class submarines. (Illustration: U.S. Navy)

Because of COVID-19, vendors to Columbia submarine prime General Dynamics [GD] Electric Boat might be a few months late delivering missile tubes for the next-generation ballistic missile submarine, the Columbia program executive officer said Monday. “[T]hat did hit us hard on the missile tubes, to the extent of probably a couple months delay in the overall missile tube production line,” Rear Adm. Scott Pappano said during a webcast hosted by the Washington-based group, the Advanced Nuclear Weapons Alliance. Early on…

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