
The Navy last Friday awarded 381 Constructors a $1.7 billion contract to build a multi-mission dry dock at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Maine as part of a decades-long shipyard improvement plan. This contract is part of the 20-year Shipyard Infrastructure Optimization Plan (SIOP) that aims to improve infrastructure at the nation’s four public shipyards that conduct maintenance work on U.S. Navy nuclear-powered vessels like attack submarines. That includes dry dock as well as production pieces, capital improvements and workflow…