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Navy Will Ask for 1 Virginia-Class Sub in FY 25 Shipbuilding Budget, Increase Amphib Production

THE PENTAGON – The Navy’s Fiscal Year 2025 budget will ask Congress to fund one Virginia-class attack boat, a break from a steady two-per-year demand signal from the service and a sign that industry is still catching up to the current demand, three sources familiar with the proposed budget submission confirmed to USNI News. While the Navy plans to only ask for one Virginia attack boat, the request will include one submarine’s worth of advanced procurement materials to maintain demand for the limited amount of suppliers for submarines, the sources confirmed to USNI News this week. [...]

The U.S. is set to sell three to five Virginia-class boats to Australia. But to do this, submarine manufacturers HII’s Newport News Shipbuilding and General Dynamics Electric Boat would have to build 2.33 boats a year. HII builds the bows and sterns for the Virginia boats and Electric Boat builds the central hull around the reactors. The pair have a similar teaming arrangement for the Columbia-class nuclear ballistic missile submarine.

https://news.usni.org/2024/02/20/navy-wi...production

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