Electric Boat To Restore Nuclear Submarine Damaged By Fire

General Dynamics’ Electric Boat Corp has won a $94 million contract to repair and restore the fast attack nuclear submarine USS Miami (SSN 755) that was damaged in a fire. A fire aboard The USS Miami damaged the vessel while it was undergoing work at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard earlier this year. Initial estimates put the cost of repairs to the submarine at over $400 million. The Navy contract is a cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order for level-of-effort man-hours and material for advance planning and preliminary execution efforts for the USS Miami fire restoration. Electric Boat will conduct an assessment and analysis, planning, material procurement, fabrication and initial installation as required to return the submarine to the fleet. The work will be done in coordination with the on-going Engineered Overhaul being executed by Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, and was assigned to the private sector based on workload constraints at the public shipyards.