Officials celebrate new building to support submarine construction at Electric Boat

OFFICIALS Friday participated in a ribbon cutting ceremony to celebrate a new, 113,000-square-foot facility to support increased submarine construction work at General Dynamics-Electric Boat's Quonset Point facility. / COURTESY GENERAL DYNAMICS ELECTRIC BOAT
OFFICIALS Friday participated in a ribbon cutting ceremony to celebrate a new, 113,000-square-foot facility to support increased submarine construction work at General Dynamics-Electric Boat's Quonset Point facility. / COURTESY GENERAL DYNAMICS ELECTRIC BOAT

NORTH KINGSTOWN – Gov. Gina M. Raimondo and the Congressional delegation participated in a ribbon cutting Friday at General Dynamics-Electric Boat to celebrate a new, 113,000-square-foot facility to support increased submarine construction work at its Quonset Point facility.
According to information from U.S. Sen. Jack Reed’s office, the “Ohio Replacement Automated Frame and Cylinder Building” is the first of several facilities planned that will support additional submarine work.

The new facility will handle construction of Ohio replacement submarine hull cylinders and the installation of large-diameter missile tubes into submarine missile compartment sections, Reed’s office said.

“This new facility at Quonset is yet another sign of Electric Boat’s significant and growing presence in Rhode Island. Over the last several years, we’ve made strategic investments to ensure Rhode Island is a high-tech hub of undersea technologies now and in the foreseeable future. We have to keep looking toward the future and I look forward to coming back here when the facility is humming with activity and bringing these new submarines to life,” Reed said in a statement.

Submarine construction is slated to begin in fiscal 2021.
Raimondo said she was pleased to attend the event.
“Electric Boat is producing world class submarines so that our service men and women can protect our waters, while helping their employees compete, grow and succeed in Rhode Island. They are a great partner to me as we turn Rhode Island’s economy around and add family-supporting jobs in the state,” Raimondo said.
According to information from Reed’s office, Electric Boat has said that it hired 600 new workers over the past year at Quonset to boost employment to just under 3,700 employees, and it expects to increase that number to 6,000 to build the new Ohio-class submarines.

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