General Dynamics taking over for Vigor on aircraft carriers

Vigor Shipyards workers wrapped up 14 months of work on the aircraft carrier John C. Stennis recently and left town. The contract shifted to General Dynamics NASSCO-Earl Industries.

The Virginia-based firm underbid Vigor, which held the contract since 1999, $94 million to $125 million, and was awarded the next five years’ work in March. It’s for non-nuclear maintenance, repair and alternation of aircraft carriers homeported in and visiting Bremerton and Everett through September 2018.

Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility handles the nuclear tasks.

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