
The Navy awarded HII’s Newport News Shipbuilding a $1.17 billion modification to start repairing the long-delated USS Boise (SSN-764) Los Angeles-class attack submarine. The contract, awarded on Feb. 23, is the latest step to finally perform maintenance on the Boise, which has become the prime example of submarine maintenance delay problems. SSN-764 finished its last deployment in early 2015 and originally planned to undergo maintenance starting in fiscal year 2016 at the public Norfolk Naval Shipyard. However, after years of…