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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: Timothy on December 02, 2009, 11:20:37 AM
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Though I worked here for 10 or so years in the 80's, my big brother is now a Project Director for Fire Control Systems at Electric Boat. Their latest endeavor.....should be interesting, their first live Webcast of a launching...
General Dynamics to Christen the U.S. Navys Most Advanced Submarine, Missouri, on Saturday
GROTON, Conn. General Dynamics Electric Boat will christen Missouri (SSN-780), the U.S. Navys
newest and most advanced nuclear attack submarine, at a ceremony at its Groton shipyard on Saturday,
Dec. 5, at 11 a.m. Electric Boat is a wholly owned subsidiary of General Dynamics (NYSE: GD).
Mrs. Rebecca W. Gates is the ships sponsor. She is the wife of Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates. The
events principal speaker is U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.). Cmdr. Timothy A. Rexrode, a 1990
honors graduate of West Virginia University, is the ships commanding officer.
The Missouri is the seventh ship of the Virginia Class, the first U.S. Navy combatant designed for the post-
Cold War era. Unobtrusive, non-provocative and connected with land, air, sea and space-based assets,
Missouri and the other Virginia-class submarines are equipped to wage multi-dimensional warfare around
the globe, providing the U.S. Navy with continued dominance in coastal waters and the open ocean.
With its construction partner Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding, the company has contracts to build a total
of 18 Virginia-class ships; 30 ships are planned altogether.
A live video and audio webcast of the Missouri christening will be accessible online at www.gdeb.com.
Webcast coverage will begin Saturday at 10:30 a.m. EDT; the ceremony will begin at 11 a.m. and conclude
at approximately noon. The program will be available for on-demand replay for one week, beginning at
approximately 2:30 p.m. EDT on Saturday.
General Dynamics, headquartered in Falls Church, Va., employs approximately 92,300 people worldwide.
The company is a market leader in business aviation; land and expeditionary combat systems, armaments
and munitions; shipbuilding and marine systems; and information systems and technologies. More
information about General Dynamics is available online at www.generaldynamics.com.
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That is pretty slick. Technology to convert Nuclear Material to KVA's/ Horsepower/ Electricity, is becoming better and more efficient every year.
Too bad the tree huggers won't let "us" build a few more in this country.
Thanks for the heads up and link. Ask your brother if he has a position available for a "sparky" like me.. 8)
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