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The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) on Monday requested another $7.3 billion from Congress to continue to build the Columbia-class ballistic missile submarine (SSBN) and cover shortfalls […]

A Navy submarine official last week reiterated their “North Star” plans to increase submarine production to two Virginia-class attack submarines (SSN) and one Columbia-class ballistic missile submarine annually by 2028, […]

The Navy director for Naval Reactors said the service plans to at least reach Block Eight on Virginia-class attack submarines before moving on to next-generation submarines now planned for the […]

A bipartisan group of senators expressed cautious optimism at a scheme to shift submarine funding to improve current production rates but also knocked the Navy for insufficient communication with Congress […]

Leaders in the House Armed Services Committee (HASC) and its seapower subcommittee on Oct. 3 sent a letter to Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro with several pointed questions […]

The defense ministers of the AUKUS countries on Thursday announced new advances in their agreement to share technologies, including negotiations on a new U.K.-Australian defense treaty about sharing nuclear-powered submarine […]

Rep. Ken Calvert (R-Calif.), chairman of the House Appropriations defense subcommittee, heavily criticized Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro about significant cost overruns and delays in submarine and ship […]

General Dynamics’ Electric Boat [GD] awarded Austal USA a $450 million contract to increase its infrastructure to design, construct and outfit new submarine modules for the U.S. submarine’s prime contractor, […]

Australia said on Monday it planned to hire another 200 workers to be trained to help sustain American and British nuclear-powered submarines on a Western Australia naval base. This recruitment […]

General Dynamics‘ Electric Boat [GD] recently launched the next Virginia-class submarine, the future USS Idaho (SSN-799), Naval Sea Systems Command said Tuesday. The float off into the Thames River at […]