GD’s Electric Boat Wins Contract to Design Next SSBN for U.S. and U.K.
December 26, 2012 by Matthew Potter
Filed under: Business Line, Companies, Contract Awards, Countries, development program, England, Events, General Dynamics, HII, production program, Services, U.S. Navy
Filed under: Business Line, Companies, Contract Awards, Countries, development program, England, Events, General Dynamics, HII, production program, Services, U.S. Navy
One of the largest contracts to be awarded this Fiscal Year was just given to General Dynamics (GD) submarine building arm, Electric Boat. The 5 year, nearly $2 billion contract is for design and development efforts supporting a new ballistic missile submarine.
This new boat will potentially replace the current U.S. Ohio class submarines and the Royal Navy’s similar Vanguards. Electric Boat is the primary producer of submarines for the U.S. Navy. While the Vanguard replacements will be built in the United Kingdom much of the design work will be done in the U.S. due to the fact they utilize a U.S. missile.
While there has been some reductions in the size of the U.S. nuclear arsenal with some of the Ohio class retired or re-designated there will ultimately still be a need for modernization of the design and new submarines. The U.S. is currently only building the Virginia class of fast attack submarines at Electric Boat and partner Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII).
Even with the potential for large cuts to the defense budget if sequestration takes effect these kind of contracts will continue to be awarded. Reductions in funding will limit how much is executed each year and potentially stretch out the work over more years then currently planned.
Share this:
-
Search This Site
Custom Search -
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Recent Posts
-
FREE Business Downloads
-
Latest Defense News
- Harris Corporation Reports Fiscal 2014 Fourth Quarter Results
- OSIsoft & Esri Partner to Deliver Unified Solution for U.S. Federal Government Organizations
- PHILIPPINES: Visions Of The Future
- SUDAN: All Talk, No Peace
- PROCUREMENT: Russia Still Delivers Despite Bad Behavior
- ATTRITION: Paying Attention To The Wrong Things
- COUNTER-TERRORISM: Safety In The Urban Jungle
- WARPLANES: Scorpion Seduces
- Videos for 2014-07-28
- Crane Co. Declares Third Quarter Dividend and Announces 10% Dividend Increase
- Crane Co. Reports Second Quarter Results; Increases Dividend 10%
- Contracts for July 28, 2014
- The Afghan Military’s Tracking of U.S.-Supplied Weapons Is Sloppy at Best
- Quality Products Inc. Announces Acquisition
- Congress Reaches Deal on Firing VA Senior Execs Immediately
- Russian Officials Continue to Believe All U.S. Intelligence Evidence is ‘Fake’
- IronPlanet Awarded Contract for U.S. Department of Defense Rolling Stock Surplus Contract
- How to Swindle Soldiers
- Millions in Tax Debt Won’t Stop You from Qualifying for a Pentagon Security Clearance
- Intelsat General Among Companies Selected to Enable U.S. Air Force Deployment of Hosted Payload Missions
- Targeted Medical Pharma Agrees to Sponsor a Clinical Trial Conducted by the United States Army and Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine
- How Military Guns Make the Civilian Market
- BOOK REVIEW: Living on the Western Front: Annals and Stories, 1914-1919
- SOMALIA: The Curse Of Uncivil Society
- ATTRITION: A Tattoo Too Far
- COUNTER-TERRORISM: What The Kurds Have Done And Why The Arabs have Not
- INFORMATION WARFARE: Be Careful What You Start Because You May Not Be Able To Stop It
- Videos for 2014-07-27
- The military needs better technologies for subterranean operations
- Israel’s campaign directed at Gaza’s tunnel infrastructure
- Operating robots underground
- Tunnel warfare – a short history
- PHOTO: Sea Hawk Turns Sand Hawk
- KOREA: The Secret Police Are For Sale
- PROCUREMENT: Mexico Refurbs Its Russian Helicopters
- ATTRITION: Iranian Air Losses Over Israel
- VIDEO: Nahal Brigade Find And Detonate Weapons In Gaza
- MALI: Corruption Threatens Peace Deal
- ATTRITION: MiG-21s Revived In Africa
- ARMOR: More TOWs For Syrian Rebels
- VIDEO: IDF Ground, Naval & Aerial Forces in Action
- Contracts for July 25, 2014
- House GOP and Some Democrats Preparing to Slam Obama for Bergdahl Swap
- Russia Accuses the U.S. of Faking MH17 Evidence
- Daniel Ellsberg: Snowden Kept His Oath Better Than Anyone in the NSA
- What Would the National Guard Actually Do at the Border?
- BOOK REVIEW: Debating War in Chinese History
- COPT Signs New 131,600 Square Foot Lease at Redstone Gateway
- NIGERIA: The Wasteland
- PEACEKEEPING: Seeking Safety In Seminars And Studies
- SUBMARINES: India Obtains Submarine Launched Harpoon
- ATTRITION: North Korean Air Force Develops Dementia
- TALK: StrategyPage’s 15 Anniversary
- PHOTO: Prowler Return
- Contracts for July 24, 2014
- Lawmakers Attack Obama Administration’s Strategy in Iraq
- The Safety Agency At War With Itself
- Exelis Deploys Deicing Management Software Solution at Philadelphia International Airport
- BOOK REVIEW: The Tigress of Forli: Renaissance Italy's Most Courageous and Notorious Countess, Caterina Riario Sforza de' Medici
- CHINA: A Major Defeat
- MURPHY’S LAW: Where MREs Are Really Loved
- COUNTER-TERRORISM: The Most Wanted Terrorist Few Have Heard Of
- AIR TRANSPORTATION: For A Few Dollars More
- ATTRITION: Jordan Wants A Few More Good Men
- ATTRITION: Jordan Wants A Few More Good Men
- Videos for 2014-07-23
- Update: FAA lifts flight restriction on Israel’s Ben-Gurion Airport,
- ON POINT: Penalize Putin and His Culpable Kremlin
- PHOTO: Hornet Vapor
- Mindcubed Awarded a Prime Contract to Develop Technology Strategic Plan for the District of Columbia Criminal Justice Coordinating Council (CJCC)
- HMS QE2 floats for the first time as outgoing carrier Illustrious retires
- Contracts for July 23, 2014
- Senate Confirms Creedon for NNSA No. 2 Position
- House Bill Requires TSA to Train Screeners on Handling Airport Shootings
- U.S. Officials: Russia ‘Created the Conditions’ for Malaysia Airlines Crash
- BAE Systems to Provide U.S. Army Troops with Latest Aircraft Survivability Equipment
- B&W Vølund Signs $80 Million Contract to Build Biomass Power Plant in Denmark
- CACI Awarded $22 Million Prime Contract to Continue Transitioning U.S. Navy Personnel and Pay Processes
- RUSSIA: Paraphrasing 1914
- SUBMARINES: South Korea Climbs The Learning Curve
- SPACE: Angara To The Rescue
- PEACEKEEPING: Ireland Still Simmers
- INFORMATION WARFARE: The More Things Change The More They Remain The Same
- Videos for 2014-07-22
- PHOTO: ORBCOMM Launch
- Contracts for July 22, 2014
- Integrator UAV Completes 24 hour flight test
- AECOM to announce fiscal year 2014 third-quarter results on Aug. 5
- Progress Hard to Gauge on Homeland Antimissile Program
- 9/11 Commission Alumni Warn of Unfinished Business Combatting Terrorism
- SES Awarded COMSATCOM Pathfinder Contract
- Border Sheriffs Perplexed by Rick Perry’s Plan to Send 1,000 Troops to Stare at Mexico
- FAA Suspends all U.S. Flights to Israel for 24 Hours
- The Military’s Laser Weapons – August 2014
- Harris Corporation Receives $15 Million Order from Middle East Nation for Wideband Handheld Radios
- 1Spatial Awarded Major Ministry Of Defence Aeronautical Contract
- X2 Biosystems Partners with Soccer’s Elite Clubs National League to Tackle Concussion Care
- BOOK REVIEW: The Marshals of Alexander's Empire
- ALGERIA: Intractable Problems
- SURFACE FORCES : Keeping VLS Current
More Defense News -->
[...] have sea port to dock their subs….as currently all get docked at northern scottish ports… GD’s Electric Boat Wins Contract to Design Next SSBN for U.S. and U.K. | Defense Procurement N… Reply With [...]