Electric Boat Recruits Engineers For New Sub

General Dynamics’ Electric Boat is in the hunt for more engineers as it gears up for the U.S. Navy’s replacement program for the Ohio-class ballistic missile submarines — one of the service’s biggest shipbuilding programs for decades to come — President John Casey says.

For Fiscal 2012, the Navy anticipates spending $1 billion in research and development funding alone for the replacement program, Casey said during a Jan. 11 briefing on submarine programs to local leaders and the media. He estimates the entire program could be worth $100 billion.

The Navy is looking to replace 14 Ohio-class submarines, Casey notes, and the submarine-maker is now mapping a conceptual design for the next class of ballistic missile submarines. In recent meetings, he says, the Pentagon has been scrutinizing the requirements for the new class.

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