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Navy Awards $1.7 Billion For Portsmouth Dry Dock

Navy Awards $1.7 Billion For Portsmouth Dry Dock
USS Virginia (SSN-774) successfully exits dry dock at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, ME on June 22, 2021. Virginia was at the shipyard for a scheduled maintenance period. (Photo: U.S. Navy by Jim Cleveland/Released)

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…

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