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The 840-foot ship is the largest that can be accommodated in NASSCO's drydock. National Steel and Shipbuilding Company, commonly referred to as NASSCO, is an American shipbuilding company with four [2] shipyards located in San Diego, Norfolk, Bremerton, and Mayport. It is a division of General Dynamics.
The John Lewis class is a class of fleet replenishment oilers which began construction in September 2018. [1] The class will comprise twenty oilers which will be operated by Military Sealift Command to provide underway replenishment of fuel and limited amounts of dry cargo to United States Navy carrier strike groups, amphibious ready groups, and other surface forces, to allow them to operate ...
Case in point: General Dynamics' latest naval contract, a $6.8 billion award to build oil tankers for the Navy. On Sept. 13, the Pentagon awarded General Dynamics a sole-source, "block buy ...
General Dynamics Corporation (GD) is an American publicly traded aerospace and defense corporation headquartered in Reston, Virginia. As of 2020, it was the fifth-largest defense contractor in the world by arms sales, and fifth largest in the United States by total sales. [ 2 ]
USS Lewis B. Puller (ESB-3), (formerly USNS Lewis B. Puller (T-ESB-3), and (T-MLP-3/T-AFSB-1) prior to that) [17] [18] is the first purpose-built expeditionary mobile base vessel (previously classified as a mobile landing platform, and then as an afloat forward staging base) for the United States Navy, and the second ship to be named in honor of Chesty Puller.
General Dynamics' (GD) ESB ships operate as mobile sea bases, providing the Navy Fleet with a critical access infrastructure that supports the flexible deployment of forces and supplies.
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The $498 million contract for the then-unnamed vessel was awarded to the National Steel and Shipbuilding Company (NASSCO), a division of General Dynamics, in December 2014. [12] Her keel was laid on 2 August 2016, [4] [7] and she was scheduled to be completed in early 2018. [7] The vessel was christened on 21 October 2017, at NASSCO in San ...