When U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth was sworn in, he quickly outlined the Pentagon’s defense-acquisition priorities. One was to modernize the military’s nuclear weapons programs. That update ...

The US Navy wants a dozen new Columbia SSBN guided missile submarines, probably more. And they need those. That is a given; the question of need is definitely there. But the current state of US ...

General Dynamics‘ (NYSE: GD) Electric Boat subsidiary has secured a $95.6 million contract modification to manufacture 17 tactical missile tubes for the U.S. Navy‘s future Columbia-class nuclear ...

Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) announced Brandi Smith has been named program director of the Newport News Columbia-class submarine program.Smith will be responsible for leading the company’s ...

General Dynamics‘ (NYSE: GD) Electric Boat subsidiary has received a $146.7 million contract modification to provide design support for the U.S. Navy‘s Columbia-class submarines. The Defense ...

General Dynamics Corp.’s GD business segment, Mission Systems, recently secured a modification contract involving the Columbia ballistic missile submarine program. The award has been offered by the ...

Then-Vice Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Lisa Franchetti tours a Rhode Island facility responsible for helping make Virginia- and Columbia-class submarines in October 2023. (Chief MC Amanda R.

The Navy’s Columbia-class submarines will arguably be the most formidable vessels of their kind to sail the seas. Shipbuilding issues and budgetary constraints have plagued the U.S. Navy’s upcoming ...