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GD Electric Boat Wins Another $689 Million To Finish SSN-768 Submarine Overhaul Work

Thursday, August 4th, 2022

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GD Electric Boat Wins Another $689 Million To Finish SSN-768 Submarine Overhaul Work

USS Hartford (SSN-768) is guided to pier at the submarine’s homeport of Naval Submarine Base New London by base-assigned tugboats on April 23, 2020. (Photo: U.S. Navy)

The Navy awarded General Dynamics’ Electric Boat [GD] another $698 million modification on July 28 to complete maintenance, repair, and modernization work for the engineered overhaul of the Los Angeles-class attack submarine USS Hartford (SSN-768). This work will occur at Electric Boat’s facility in Groton, Conn., and is expected to be finished by October 2026. The funding obligated at award time was split between $650 million in fiscal year 2022 Navy operations and maintenance funds and $26 million in FY…

Congress

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Budget

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Congress

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Space

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