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Navy/USMC

Navy May Ask Industry To Overhaul USS Boise Submarine

By Marc Selinger

Monday, November 7th, 2016

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Navy May Ask Industry To Overhaul USS Boise Submarine

The Los Angeles-class attack submarine USS Miami enters dry dock to begin an overhaul at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in 2012. (U.S. Navy photo by Jim Cleveland/Released)

An overhaul of the USS Boise (SSN-764) might be contracted out to the private sector because it would take an overtaxed public shipyard too long to do the work, according to a Navy official.The Los Angeles-class submarine was supposed to begin a 22-month maintenance “availability” at Norfolk Naval Shipyard in Virginia over the summer, but that plan was nixed after it was determined that the work would actually take almost four years, said Vice Adm. Thomas Moore, commander of Naval…

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