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GD Awarded $696 Million Contract For Virginia Submarine Long-Lead Materials

Tuesday, March 13th, 2018

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GD Awarded $696 Million Contract For Virginia Submarine Long-Lead Materials

USS Washington (SSN 787), a Virginia-class submarine, completing initial sea trials. (Photo: Huntington Ingalls Industries)

The Naval Sea Systems Command awarded General Dynamics’s [GD] Electric Boat a $696 million modification on Monday for long-lead time material for the FY ’19 and ’20 Virginia-class submarines.Two Virginia-class submarines are being procured in each year, the future SSN-802 and -803 in FY ’19 and SSN-804, and -805 for FY ’20.The administration’s FY ’19 Navy budget requested $7.3 billion for the first two of 10 total Virginia-class submarines in a multi-year procurement running from FY 2019 – 2023 (Defense…

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