Navy Awards $11.8 Billion to Build 14 Nuclear Submarines
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Navy Awards $11.8 Billion to Build 14 Nuclear Submarines

General Dynamics Electric Boat and Huntington Ingalls received incentive contract modifications to build five Columbia-class and nine Virginia-class submarines, with work running through July 2038.

Richard Miniter
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First Published: July 29, 2026, 1:25 PM ET

GROTON, CONNECTICUT — The U.S. Navy awarded more than $11.8 billion to two shipbuilders to construct 14 nuclear submarines, its largest naval contract of 2026, as announced on war.gov.