
The Navy last Friday awarded General Dynamics’ [GD] Electric Boat Corp. business unit a $2.4 billion modification exercising an option to build the second FY '21 Block V Virginia-class attack submarine. The Navy noted GD “will continue to subcontract with Huntington Ingalls Industries [HII] – Newport News Shipbuilding” for work on the vessel. While GD is the prime contractor for these attack submarines, HII is a subcontractor and the two companies generally split the work of Virginia-class submarines where each…