QinetiQ North America will design, assess and validate an electronic grounding unit for the active shaft grounding system of Virginia-class submarines under a contract from General Dynamics’ Electric Boat subsidiary.

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General Dynamics’ Electric Boat subsidiary has selected BAE Systems to manufacture 28 payload tubes for the U.S. Navy’s Block V of Virginia-class submarines.

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Phebe Novakovic, CEO of General Dynamics and a 2019 Wash100 winner, has said design of the U.S. Navy's Columbia-class ballistic missile submarine is 97 percent complete and construction drawings are 43 percent complete, USNI News reported Wednesday.

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Executive Mosaic is pleased to announce Phebe Novakovic, chairman and CEO of General Dynamics, as an inductee into the 2019 Wash100 — Executive Mosaic’s annual selection of the most influential voices in the government contracting arena — for helping to secure multiple contracts and supporting organic growth at the company.

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General Dynamics will reinvest $1B into updating its company-wide manufacturing operations to include emerging submarine construction efforts, USNI News reported Wednesday.

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General Dynamics‘ Electric Boat subsidiary will continue to help the U.S. Navy repair non-nuclear submarines under a one-year, $46.2M contract modification. Work will take place in New London, Conn., and covers overhaul, corrective and preventive maintenance, field changes, interim modification and upgrades, the Defense Department said Tuesday. The company will also provide ancillary services and/or supplies […] More

General Dynamics has begun to prepare a shipyard as the company aims to secure a potential $6.2B contract by late 2019 to build the U.S. Navy’s first Columbia-class ballistic missile submarine, USNI News reported Wednesday. Phebe Novakovic, chairman and CEO of General Dynamics, told analysts during a conference call held Wednesday that the company plans to invest […] More

The U.S. Navy will christen two of its future Virginia-class attack submarines on Saturday at General Dynamics and Huntington Ingalls Industries locations. The service branch will christen USS Vermont at a General Dynamics Electric Boat shipyard in Groton, Conn., while USS Delaware will be christened at an HII Newport News Shipbuilding site in Newport News, Va., the […] More

General Dynamics’ Electric Boat subsidiary has won a one-year, $39.7M contract to support the U.S. Navy‘s Next Generation Submarine Science and Technology Research effort. Electric Boat secured the contract via the Long Range Broad Agency Announcement for Navy and Marine Corps Science and Technology and will perform work in Groton, Conn., the Defense Department said Monday. […] More

General Dynamics‘ Electric Boat subsidiary delivered the future USS South Dakota, or SSN 790, to the U.S. Navy on Monday. With the delivery completed, the Navy is set to commission the 17th Virginia-class attack submarine in early 2019, the Naval Sea Systems Command said Tuesday. The submarine is also the seventh in its class to […] More

General Dynamics‘ Bath Iron Works subsidiary has completed hull, mechanical and electrical delivery of a second Zumwalt-class guided missile destroyer to the U.S. Navy. The Navy said Tuesday it accepted ownership of the future USS Michael Monsoor (DDG 1001) ship after a series of assessments and demonstrations of the vessel’s HM&E systems that include boat handling, anchoring and mooring, damage control, […] More

A subsidiary of General Dynamics has received a modification worth $11.4 million on a previously awarded contract for the supply of large vertical array fixtures for two U.S. Navy submarine classes. The modification exercises the first option year of General Dynamics Electric Boat‘s production of LVA fixtures for Ohio-class and Virginia-class ship sets, the Defense Department said […] More