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GD Not Yet Planning To Build 3 Virginia Subs

Wednesday, October 28th, 2020

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GD Not Yet Planning To Build 3 Virginia Subs

The Virginia-class submarine future USS Delaware (SSN-791) at sea for sea trials in the Atlantic Ocean on Aug, 31, 2019. (Photo: U.S. Navy)

General Dynamics [GD] has no plans to increase Virginia-class attack submarine production to three vessels per year yet after the Secretary of Defense outlined a future naval plan calling for more submarines. “So we've been talking to our Navy customer about the ability of - essentially the supply chain and the facilities to ramp up production and as you can imagine, we're developing plans to do that as well,” Phebe Novakovic, chairman and CEO of General Dynamics, said during a…

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