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Virginia Class Submarine: Electric Boat
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In September of 1998 the USS Virginia (SSN774) was ordered as the lead submarine of a new class of nuclear powered fast attack submarines. Her keel was laid down in September of 2000 at the general Dynamics Electric Boat shipyard in Groton, CT and she was later launched in August in 2005. The Virginia was commissioned in October of 2005.
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GROTON, CT — The U.S. Navy has awarded General Dynamics' Electric Boat $32 million in material orders for the purchase of long-lead material for Virginia-Class submarine spare parts and systems. Electric Boat is a wholly owned subsidiary of General Dynamics . Under the terms of the agreement, Electric Boat will purchase the materials required for spare components and ships' service turbine-generator and main-propulsion units. The material orders are part of a contract initially awarded in March 2004; if all options are exercised and funded, the contract could be worth more than $1.1 billion over five years. The work is expected to be completed by March 2009. General Dynamics, headquartered in Falls Church, Va., employs approximately 81,000 people worldwide and had 2006 revenues of $24.1 billion.
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The VIRGINIA Class submarine was designed by Electric Boat Corporation. It was the first US Navy warship to be designed using advanced computer-aided design and visualization technology that supports integrated design and manufacturing from a single product model database. The class design is complete and the program is now in low rate production at one ship per year.
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To date, three Virginia class submarines have been commissioned into active service. An additional six are either on order or under construction. The Navy expects to purchase at least 30 submarines of this class. Construction of these submarines is split between Electric Boat in Groton, and the Northrop Grumman Newport News Shipbuilding facility in Newport News.
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Northrop Grumman Newport News is teamed with General Dynamics Electric Boat to build the first 10 ships of the Virginia class. Current plans call for 30 Virginia-class submarines in the fleet. The first ship of the class, USS Virginia (SSN 774), was delivered in 2004 and is the first major combatant delivered to the U.S. Navy that was designed with the post-Cold War security environment in mind. The keel for Texas was laid on July 12, 2002, the ship was christened on July 31, 2004 and launched on April 9, 2005. For more information about the Texas, please visit www.nn.northropgrumman.com/texas.
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The Navy was hoping to maintain the attack submarine fleet at the current level by moving from one new Virginia-class submarine per year to building two annually beginning in 2009. Electric Boat and Newport News Shipbuilding in Virginia are the only submarine manufacturers; they now split the work. The first in the class, the USS Virginia, is to be delivered to the Navy this year.
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