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Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Navy begins effort to build two submarines a year

USS VirginiaWork has begun on the first Virginia-class submarine to be built on an accelerated two-submarine-a-year basis, Huntington Ingalls Industries Inc. announced Monday.

Construction began Sept. 2 at Newport News Shipbuilding on the unnamed SSN 787, the 14th Virginia-class submarine and the fourth vessel of a third block of the submarines to be built.

"The 787 truly is the first boat that we'll end up delivering two boats within a year period, so it really is the first two-per-year boat," said Jim Hughes, vice president of submarines and fleet support at Newport News Shipbuilding, a division of Huntington Ingalls.

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