Hunt­ing­ton Ingalls Indus­tries, America’s largest mil­i­tary ship­build­ing com­pa­ny has announced that its New­port News Ship­build­ing divi­sion has been award­ed a con­tract mod­i­fi­ca­tion from Gen­er­al Dynam­ics Elec­tric Boat in sup­port of con­struc­tion on the first two Colum­bia-class bal­lis­tic mis­sile sub­marines. As not­ed by the com­pa­ny, the con­tract mod­i­fi­ca­tion, val­ued at approx­i­mate­ly $2.2 bil­lion, pro­vides con­tin­ued design […] 

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