ORP (Ohio Replacement Program)

Over the next decade, the U.S. will spend an estimated $756 billion on modernizing and maintaining its current and future nuclear forces, or about $75 billion per year, a new […]

A recent Government Accountability Office (GAO) report that audited the Navy’s new Columbia-class ballistic missile submarine (SSBN) argued the program needs an updated schedule risk analysis to assess the feasibility […]

General Dynamic’s [GE] Electric Boat held a keel laying ceremony for the first Columbia-class ballistic missile submarine on June 4, named the future USS District of Columbia (SSBN-826). During a […]

The Navy’s top acquisition official said while the Columbia-class ballistic missile submarines (SSBNs) are the most impacted by a continuing resolution (CR), if the period before a full budget increases, […]

Bollinger Shipyards won a contract from General Dynamics’ Electric Boat [GD] to build a new floating dry dock to support construction of the Columbia-class ballistic missile submarines (SSBNs), Bollinger said […]

The Navy on Monday awarded General Dynamics Electric Boat [GD] an $869 million modification for continued Columbia-class ballistic missile submarine (SSBN) procurement work with an added price option for the […]

The Defense Department plans to use the proposed Mk 7 W93 submarine-launched nuclear ballistic missile (SLBM) warhead to eventually replace the current W76 and W88 warheads without increasing the size […]

BWX Technologies [BWXT] is now about halfway through repairing 12 submarine missile tubes it welded incorrectly in 2018, Rex Geveden, president and chief executive officer of the Lynchburg, Va., nuclear-hardware […]

Both the House and Senate defense authorization bills, approved by their respective armed services committees, directed reports and briefings on the Columbia-class submarine program due to schedule and cost concerns. […]

BWX Technologies [BWXT] expects to finalize some $2 billion in nuclear naval nuclear propulsion contracts in the first quarter of 2019, the Lynchburg, Va., company said Monday before financial markets opened. […]