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Navy Awards Second Portsmouth Dry Dock Project

Tuesday, September 7th, 2021

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Navy Awards Second Portsmouth Dry Dock Project

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 awarded a $63 million construction project to build improvements at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard Dry Dock 2 complex in Kittery, Maine, the second dry dock contract awarded there within a month. Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command (NAVFAC) awarded the two-year project to Methuen Construction on Aug. 30. The company is contracted to add enclosures and facilities to the current dry dock to increase the shipyard’s capacity to maintain, modernize and repair Navy attack submarines, the service said in…

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