![]() ![]() It relies on hundreds of subcontractors in the region as well, who rely in turn on suppliers for various parts and services. ![]() ![]() “About 40 percent of our cases - all time, since the beginning of the pandemic - have occurred in the last eight weeks.”Įlectric Boat is not just dependent on its Groton and Quonset Point employees. “There were a number of people who may have left the business had we invoked that mandate and we would have lost a significant portion of our workforce - a portion that we couldn’t afford to lose,” Graney said last week. With no vaccine mandate in place, the company reports 86 percent of its workforce have been inoculated against the virus. Graney said attrition remains an issue during the COVID-19 pandemic, whether workers taking early retirement or leaving otherwise. Speaking last week in Hartford during an economic summit sponsored by the Connecticut Business & Industry Association, the president of Electric Boat, Kevin Graney, said the manufacturer has the capacity to keep up with both the Columbia-class and Virginia-class submarines, and in time SSN(X) production. Under that model, each shipyard would contribute major components toward final assembly, as the case with the Columbia subs which are being completed in Groton. The SSN(X) program is shaping up as another team effort between Electric Boat and its rival Newport News Shipbuilding in Virginia owned by Huntington Ingalls Industries, according to a Congressional Research Service analysis last year. The Navy currently has 50 attack submarines in its fleet across the Virginia and older Los Angeles and Seawolf classes. The Biden administration wants Congress to authorize another half-dozen SSN(X) subs, which would push the total to 72 vessels at a cost in the neighborhood of $6 billion each. ![]() The designation X is used for ships that have not yet been named. And looking furter ahead to the next decade and beyind, the Navy is planning the proposed SSN(X) attack sub that will replace those Virginia-class boats. Chief Petty Officer Joshua Karst / Submarine Readiness Squadron (SRĪs Electric Boat scrambles to hire 3,000 people this year in Connecticut and Rhode Island for two major submarine programs, its president is already looking ahead to a third that could support more than 20,000 jobs for decades to come.Ī subsidiary of General Dynamics, Electric Boat is Connecticut’s largest private employer with some 18,000 workers at its main Groton shipyard and an auxiliary yard at Quonset Point, R.I., and an engineering design center across the Thames River in New London.Įlectric Boat hired 2,500 people last year as it gets to work on the new Columbia class of ballistic missile submarines, with General Dynamics targeting a launch schedule of one sub annually for 12 total to replace Ohio-class submarines nearing retirement.Īt the same time, Electric Boat is building several more Virginia-class attack subs over the coming decade. Huntington Ingalls Industries, which delivered the Minnesota in 2013, is also expected to bid for the SSN(X) program. Navy wants to replace Virginia-class boats as they reach retirement in the coming decades. The Electric Boat subsidiary of General Dynamics is readying to bid on the SSN(X) attack sub program that the U.S. The Virginia-class submarine USS Minnesota heads up the Thames River in November 2021 toward Naval Submarine Base New London in Groton, Conn. ![]()
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