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Electric Boat Wins $497 Million Mod For Sub Industrial Base

Electric Boat Wins $497 Million Mod For Sub Industrial Base
Artist rendering of the future Columbia-class nuclear-armed ballistic missile submarine (SSBN), which will replace the Ohio-class submarines. (Illustration: U.S. Navy)

The Navy on Monday awarded General Dynamics’s [GD] Electric Boat (GDEB) a $497 million modification for a submarine industrial base development and expansion to support the Columbia-class ballistic missile submarines. According to the contract announcement, the award also covers the overall nuclear shipbuilding enterprise, which includes Virginia-class attack submarines and Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carriers. This is part of the “integrated enterprise plan and multi-program material procurement and production backup units.” The submarine industrial base and expansion work is using…

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