The US Navy does not have the capacity to build the SSN(X) submarines at scale—but rather than acknowledging this, it has simply attempted to delay their completion dates.

The Pentagon on November 17 awarded General Dynamics Electric Boat a $2.28 billion contract to support advance procurement and construction of five Columbia-class ballistic missile submarines, the ...

HFIR reactor operators working from a motorized bridge use hand tools that are 30 feet long to work on the reactor core submerged in a pool 17 feet deep. Veterans of the U.S. Navy’s Nuclear Propulsion ...

BWX Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: BWXT) announced the award of a U.S. Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program contract from September 2025 totaling approximately $174 million for the manufacture of naval nuclear ...

The first Trump administration was the first to table the idea for the SLCM-N in 2018. However, the Biden administration proposed to cancel the program for a naval nuclear cruise missile after the ...