
Following a $3 billion award last fall to provide the integrated electric propulsion systems for the Navy’s Columbia-class ballistic missile submarines, Leonardo DRS [DRS] on Tuesday said it will invest $120 million to build a new manufacturing, integration, and test facility to support the nuclear submarine program and potentially other submarine and ship work in the future. Work on the “state-of-the-art” 140,000 square-foot purpose-built facility in Charleston, S.C., will be fully funded by DRS and will take three years to…